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Klimt-Villa

Austria

Start with the name, because it is slightly misleading, and the source says so openly. The two-storey house at Feldmühlgasse 11, in the Unter-St.-Veit part of Vienna's 13th district, Hietzing, is called the Klimt-Villa, or sometimes the Villa Werner. But Gustav Klimt never lived or worked in a grand bourgeois villa here. What he rented was a plain, single-storey country house with tall windows. The pairing of 'villa' with his name is unhistorical, and has been used since the 1990s to rally support for saving a run-down building. What you are actually looking for, as you stand outside, is a studio hidden inside a later house.

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