Architecture
Be it baroque vedute, magnificent Renaissance buildings, or architectural ensembles like Vienna’s Ring Road: the Architecture Collection at the ALBERTINA Museum embodies a fascinating overview of the genre of architectural drawing that numbers over 40,000 plans, studies, and models. Extending from the Late Gothic period to the architecture of the present, the museum's holdings include seminal works by Bernini, Borromini, Hansen, Wagner, Loos, Hollein, Hadid, and many others.
The Architecture Collection of ALBERTINA is a member of the Föderation deutschsprachiger Architektursammlungen and the International Confederation of Architectural Museums ICAM.
The Highlights of the Collection
Paul Wilhelm Eduard Sprenger
Design for an exercise and industrial exhibition hall in Vienna, perspectival interior view (1853)
© The Albertina Museum, ViennaAdolf Loos
House Josephine Baker (Model), Paris (1927)
© To the descendants of Ludwig Münz (Photo: The Albertina Museum, Vienna)Albrecht Dürer
Courtyard of the Innsbruck castle (with clouds) (at or after 1496/97)
© The Albertina Museum, ViennaAntonio Galli Bibiena
Columned hall with a view through to a lower courtyard, with each supporting column consisting of four individual Corinthian columns with three rosettes each and a fountain on the rightmost column (1740/1745)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaJosef Frank
New York, Slum Clearance, aerial perspective and site map (1942)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaClemens Holzmeister
Rio de Janeiro, Cathedral; Choir, Elevation (1952)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaAdolf Loos
The Chicago Tribune Column, Chicago, Michigan Avenue/Austin Avenue/St. Clair Street, Fassade mit Steinschnitt, gez. Bittner (1922)
© The Albertina Museum, ViennaFrancesco Borromini
Rome, Oratorio dei Filippini, façade, revised version for the publication of his Opus Architectonicum (1660)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaGiacomo Quarenghi
Russia, St.Petersburg, stock exchange (1783)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaLois Welzenbacher
Marseille, Project for New-Marseille, Atlantropa project, aerial view from southeast (1930)
The Albertina Museum, ViennaGottfried Semper, (Freiherr) Carl von Hasenauer
Vienna, 1st district, Burgtheater, Ringstrasse façade, front view (1 July 1873)
Permanent loan of Österreichische Bundestheater Holding GmbH ArchitectureJoseph Maria Olbrich
Imperial court pavilion at the Vienna Metropolitan Railway station in Vienna-Hietzing, orthogonal view (1898)
The Albertina Museum, Vienna
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