Biography
Otto Wagner Penzing/Vienna 1841 - 1918 Vienna At the age of 16, Wagner graduated from high school and then studied architecture at the Vienna Polytechnic and in Berlin under C.F. Busse, a student of Carl Friedrich Schinkel. Back in Vienna, he rounded off his education by studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1862 he worked in several well-known Viennese architectural offices before opening his own office in the 1870s. He had great success with the design of his villas and apartment buildings, which earned him the rank of head of the master school for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1894. There he wrote many important essays, for example on "Modern Architecture" (1895), which propagated the so-called "Viennese Modernism". He joined the Vienna Secession, which was to shape the cityscape of Vienna at the beginning of the new century.
