VIENNA 405Golden filigree dome adorning the
Secession Building
Beautifully restored patients’
waiting room in the Freud MuseumFreud Museum q
Berggasse 19. Tel (01) 319 1596.
v 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, D. @ 40A.
% Schottentor, Schottenring.
# 9am–5pm daily. &
http://www.freud-museum.atBerggasse No. 19, a typical
20th-century Viennese town
house, is now one of the city’s
most famous addresses. The
father of psychoanalysis,
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939),
lived, worked and received
patients here from 1891 till
1938, when he was forced to
leave the city, where he had
lived almost all his life, by the
Nazis. Although abandoned
by Freud in a hurry, the flat
still preserves an intimate
atmosphere with most of his
belongings still in place.
The room in which Freud
received patients is on the
mezzanine floor. There are
at least 420 items of memo-
rabilia on display, including
his letters and books. His
frayed hat and travel trunk
can be seen in the small, dark
lobby. A cabinet contains
some arch aeological objects
collected by Freud. The world-
famous couch is now in the
Freud Museum in London.Stucco relief on the Baroque high
altar, KarlskircheKarlskirche 9
Karlsplatz 8. Tel (01) 505 6294.
@ 4A. v 1, 2, 71, D, J.
% Karlsplatz. # 9am–12:30pm,
1–6pm Mon–Thu, Sat, 12–5:45pm
Fri, Sun. & 9 http://www.karlskirche.at
During Vienna’s plague
epidemic of 1713, Emperor
Karl VI vowed that as soon
as the city was delivered
from its plight he would
build a church dedicated to
St Charles Borromeo (1538–
84), a former archbishop and
patron saint of plague victims.
He announced a competition
to design the church, which
was won by Johann Bernhard
Fischer von Erlach’s (1656–
1723), architect of many of
Vienna’s finest buildings. His
eclectic Baroque masterpiece
has a gigantic Neo-Classical
dome and portico borrowed
from classical Greek and
Roman architecture, flanked
by two minaret-like towers.
One of the most striking
features is the frescoes in
the cupola painted by
Austrian Museum
of Applied Arts 0Stubenring 5. Tel (01) 711 360.
v 1, 2. @ 1A, 74A. % Stubentor,
Landstrae. < Wien Mitte. # 10am–
midnight Tue, 10am–6pm Wed–Sun.
& free on Sat. http://www.mak.atThe Austrian Museum of
Applied Arts (Museum für
angewandte Kunst or MAK),
founded in 1864, was the first
of its kind in Europe and
exercised a strong influence
on the development of the
applied arts for some time.
The renovated museum acts
both as a showcase for
Austrian decorative arts
and as a repository for fine
objects from around the
world. Originally founded in
1864 as a museum of art and
industry, it expanded and
diversified over the years toinclude objects repre senting
new artistic movements.
The permanent collection,
presented according to
periods from the Gothic
to the present, includes
world famous works by the
Wiener Werkstätte, an arts
and crafts cooperative
workshop from 1870 to- Furniture, text iles,
glassware, and fine
Renaissance jewellery are
also on display. A number
of rooms are devoted to the
Art Nouveau period.
Johann Michael Rottmayr
between 1725 and 1730,
depicting the Apotheosis
of St Charles Borromeo. It
was the painter’s last com-
mission. Others include the
typically Baroque high altar
featuring a stucco relief by
Albert Camesina, which
shows St Charles Borromeo
being taken to heaven on
a cloud filled with angels
and putti, and the Two
intricate columns, inspired
by Trajan’s Column in Rome.
These feat ure scenes from
the life of the saint, illustrating
his qualities of steadfastness
The motto of the founders, and courage.
on the façade, states: “To
every Age its Art, to Art
its Freedom”.
The Secession Building’s
best-known exhibit is
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze.
This 34-m (110-ft) painting
is regarded as one of the
masterpieces of Viennese Art
Nouveau. Designed in 1902
and covering three walls, it
shows inter related groups
of figures thought to be a
commentary on Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony.