If we have to do something while in Vienna, it is to walk around the city. There are many possible routes, many tourist walks, and it all depends on which part of Vienna interests us the most: be it the old town, the Vienna of 1900, the nightlife of Vienna, the Art Nouveau Vienna, the neighborhoods of the Austrian capital or the arts district, for example.
Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Stefan Zweig, Sigmund Freud or Egon Chiele are the representatives of that Vienna of 1900 that many would have liked to know. If you are interested, there is also a tourist walk to do in 48 hours and see what Vienna was like then: modernism, design, architecture, literature and psychology. Here is the Two-day itinerary around 1900 Vienna:
- Day 1: It's museum day so the Leopold Museum since it exhibits the Vienna 1900 exhibition with the largest number of works by Egon Chiele: silverware, glassware, functionalist furniture, picture frames. The exhibition is in a separate building from the museum, 10 minutes' walk away, and in the basement you will also find works by Klimt and about 30 meters of a frieze by the artist with his interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Then you can visit tThree buildings that speak about the architecture of the early twentieth century in Vienna and that they are beautiful examples of Art Nouveau and Modernist styles. Its architect was Otto Wagner and they are on Naschmarkt street: balconies with painted flowers, iron bars, sculptures on the ceilings. The route continues along the National Gallery of Belvedere Palace to see the most representative works of the Vienna Secessionists and Expressionists. It is followed by Sigmund Freud Museum.
- Day 2: more works by the architect Otto Wagner are on Postsparkasse, in the elegant National Bank building. Then it's your turn MAK, Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art, Church am Steinhof, the first modernist church in Europe and the Vienna Concert House, in the Art Nouveau style.
With these two days walking through Vienna, you will get to know the Vienna of 1900.