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125th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1993 - 7 Shilling


Theme: Architecture
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1993
Face Value7.00 
Colormulti-colored yellow
Printing Typecombination printing
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1429
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID947326
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Eduard van der Nüll, born in Vienna in 1812, and August Siccard of Siccardsburg, born in 1813, were a team of architects who, as early as 1844, realized joint projects. They played a decisive role in the repositioning of Vienna in the Europe of that time. In 1861 they won the competition for the construction of the opera, the first monumental building on the ring road. The opera house embodies a final highlight of "Romantic Historicism" and at the same time the gradual change to more rigorous ideals in the architecture of the 19th century. But this task also fulfilled the fate of the two architects. The sluggishness of the bureaucracy, competing envy, and ignorance of its critics gnawed at the architectural duo. Van der Nüll, highly sensitive and sickly, committed suicide on April 3, 1868; Siccardsburg also died due to a tuberculosis disease in the same year.

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Eduard van der Nüll, born in Vienna in 1812, and August Siccard of Siccardsburg, born in 1813, were a team of architects who, as early as 1844, realized joint projects. They played a decisive role in the repositioning of Vienna in the Europe of that time. In 1861 they won the competition for the construction of the opera, the first monumental building on the ring road. The opera house embodies a final highlight of "Romantic Historicism" and at the same time the gradual change to more rigorous ideals in the architecture of the 19th century. But this task also fulfilled the fate of the two architects. The sluggishness of the bureaucracy, competing envy, and ignorance of its critics gnawed at the architectural duo. Van der Nüll, highly sensitive and sickly, committed suicide on April 3, 1868; Siccardsburg also died due to a tuberculosis disease in the same year..