# Österreichische Postsparkasse: entrance façade [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WAGNER, Otto]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Wagner's late projects from 1903 radically continued the transformation of the work of Schinkel, Van der Nüll and Semper, as seen in his two master buildings: the sanatorium church of Kirche am Steinhof \(also called Leopoldskirche\), the church of the Steinhof Asylum in Penzing outside Vienna, and the Österreichische Postsparkasse \(1903-12\), also in Vienna. These buildings are considered his most revolutionary work; both utilized new materials - steel, glass, aluminium - and innovative modes of construction in a highly successful fusion of functional building and aesthetic vision. The design for the Österreichische Postsparkasse \(Austrian Postal Savings Bank\), one of his best-known works, won a competition \(1903\) and is based on a logical trapezoidal plan with a banking hall at its centre. The six-storey entrance façade, surmounted by a simple Sezessionstil pergola flanked by winged figures, has large windows set in walls faced with white marble with aluminium fixings. ## Related artworks - [Armchair No. 8]() - [Armchair]() - [Armchair]() - [Kirche am Steinhof: general view]() - [Kirche am Steinhof: interior]() - [Kirche am Steinhof: interior]() - [Kirche am Steinhof: main façade]() - [Länderbank: façade]() - [Länderbank: interior]() - [Majolica House: detail of the façade]() - [Majolica House: detail of the façade]() - [Majolica House: façade]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()