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VISUAL ARTS IN OSIJEK 1900 — 1940 (TOWN PLANNINIG AND ARCHITECTURE)


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Abstract

It the second half of the 19th century, Lower To»>m
ou>' t> > nes. .";>d Upper Ton n acq>>ired c"rtain urban character, sincecentral toivn functio>žs and appearance of a minor Central
European city had been allocated to Upper Toivn. Construction
of r epvese»ta>ive public bui ldings had at t racted
foreign architects uho buil t the>n on the Central Europea>ž
nžodels and i n keeping u>ith the prevailing styles of hi storism
and Secession. In the turning period between the
19t» and 20th centuvy, W.C. Hofbauer, a Vienna student
uho worked on the >nodel of hi s professor, F. Schmid,
was the most pronžinent architect in Osijek. At the beginni>
žg of th e 2t>th century, A. Sl avči ek and V. Axmann,
Qvchitects front Osijek, u>orked in the spivit of the Prague
and Munich Sccessio». The n>ost vahžable steps in the 20th
century ž>rban architectuve i» Osijek date f rom that t ime.
V. Axmann ivas k noivn fo r h i s t o u>n- planni ng solu tions
by tracing neu > streets and using block mi cro-regulation.
Befu>een tu >o uorld wars, the so-called Regulating Fund.
amenfals u>ere st r ictl y f o l loived i n toivn planning a nd
building. The residential part of the city u'as built accor đi>
žg to plans. Besides V. Axnžann, Domes, Struppi, Juzbašić,
Wrank, Graff, Dlouhi and Ful l should also be mentioned.
Ax»>Q>ž>ž, Do»>es a>žđ Pelzer ii'orked in the spirit of modernisnž.
In the 1900 — 1940p eriod, Osijek presented high achiei'ements
of i t s urban architectural profile, interpreting by
i ts format ive content t h e e ssence of the epoch i n t h i s.

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Hrčak ID:

153317

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/153317

Publication date:

15.12.1989.

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