Palais Epstein
Austria
Stand on the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring and the Palais Epstein looks like a confident piece of the Ringstraße: four storeys, free-standing on three sides, its façade modelled on the forms of the Roman Renaissance and drawn in strong horizontal lines. It sits between the Parliament and the Natural History Museum, on the corner of Bellariastraße, facing the Volksgarten. The banker Gustav von Epstein, a Jewish financier from Prague, had it built between 1868 and 1871 by the Danish architect Theophil von Hansen, with a young Otto Wagner acting as site manager. The plot was then the most expensive on the whole Ringstraße, so costly that a planned noble casino had to be abandoned, and only the banker could afford it.
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