Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 51 Euro Cent

The new brand shows the "Schützenhaus" on the Vienna Danube Canal at the Leopoldstädter address Obere Donaustraße 26 after an interesting, color-clearly over-emphasized, but just for that very special presentation of Karl Goldammer. Born in Vienna in 1950, the artist visited the Department of Prints and Drawings and the Academy of Applied Arts and has been working as a freelance lithographer since 1972. In 1975, in an abstract period, he returns in 1977 to figurative painting. His world view was acquired by traveling to many countries around the world. Perhaps that is why he is particularly fond of urban views of Vienna and Venice, giving precedence to the art nouveau buildings of Otto Wagner and some Venetian palazzi. In the course of the regulation of the Danube Canal in the years 1904-1908, the attractive, blue-and-white tiled building was erected as a lock or rifle shelter for the second of four planned barrages according to the plans of Art Nouveau architect Otto Wagner. On the side turned away from the water, a passage was planned for the steam tramway, which at the time was running along the Danube Canal bank to the Augarten Bridge. The war-damaged house was rebuilt in 1977, restored and since then serves as a training center to the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying.