Otto Wagner – a celebrated Austrian architect at the turn of the centuries.

Working in Vienna mostly, his architecture became a symbol of the Austrian metropolis around 1900. He was a designer of such renowned buildings as the pavilions of the Vienna City Railway, Postal Office Savings Bank building, the Steinhof church or the Majolica House. 

He claimed that “to every age its art, to every art its freedom”. The effect of the Wagner’s work on the 20th century architects can by no means be exaggerated. Recognised as one of the fathers of Modernism, Wagner’s influence can also be observed in the Polish architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries.