The Viennese movement tangentially involves a number…
1898 CE
The fifty-seven-year-old Wagner, as adviser to the Transport Commission in Vienna, is occupied from 1894 to 1898 with the construction of the Stadtbahn, the city's metropolitan railway network.
He designs bridges and tunnels for this system, as well as the stations, with their complex of platforms, staircases, and ticket offices.
Many of these stations, like Wagner's so-called Majolica House of the same year, use elements of art nouveau (or Jugendstil).
In the Majolica House, Wagner's decorative exploitation of the architectural surface with flexible, S-shaped linear ornament associates the Majolica House with the Sezessionstil, as do its decorative iron balconies and colored ceramic floral designs (the latter designed by Wagner's student Alois Ludwig).
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