Der Prachtband erscheint anlässlich des 300. Todestages von Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Baumeistern des europäischen Barocks. Mit Bauten wie der Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, der Hofbibliothek und der Karlskirche in Wien schuf er Ikonen der Architekturgeschichte. Sein räumlicher und zeitlicher Horizont reichte weit über die Grenzen seines engeren Wirkungskreises – vor allem Wien und Salzburg – hinaus. Das Salzburg Museum zeigt gemeinsam mit dem Wien Museum eine Sonderausstellung, zu der dieser Begleitband erscheint. Namhafte Autor*innen haben architekturhistorische Beiträge verfasst und der Künstler Werner Feiersinger hat Fischers Werk aus der Sicht eines Bildhauers fotografisch festgehalten.

Otto Wagner's diary of his final years – published for the first time.

October 26th 1915 was a fateful day for Vienna's leading architect and city planner. It was the day his wife Louise, 18 years his junior, died of cancer. Wagner had started to keep a diary when Louise was first diagnosed and continued to regularly record his memories of better days and comments on current developments. He intended the diary to be a memorial to is unparalleled love for Louise, yet it also reveals the misanthropic despair of a great artist. He considered himself to be at the peak of his craft and felt a Habsburg victory was close, bringing fresh opportunities to realise his plans. But old age afflictions and the miseries of WW1 took a growing toll on his day-to-day life. Rampant anti-Semitism, suffering and paranoia increasingly defined his thoughts. Three years on, the death of this patriarch coincided with the end of the Habsburg empire.