!!!Ringstraßen-Stil

Ringstrasse Style (Ringstrassen-Stil), name for the architectural 
style(s) characteristic of the Vienna   (see) Ringstrasse and, more 
widely, the   (see) Gruenderzeit (age of promoterism) in Vienna, 
marked by generous planning, sumptuous materials and design, and 
impressive dignity. Long disparaged as the "style of stylelessness" 
(H. Benedikt) in line with the esthetic principles of succeeding 
styles, it is now more appreciated as the "style of liberalism and its 
optimistic views of life and the economy, and at the same time an 
expression of the inner turmoil characteristic of a new age no longer 
committed to a uniform established order" (H. Hantsch). Rationalism 
and Romanticism form a union typical of the artistic production of the 
period. Technically and as craftsmen, the protagonists of the 
Ringstrasse Style were accomplished masters and virtuosos of the 
representation of emotional values and depth, but rarely capable of 
the empathy which is the hallmark of the greatest works of art.

!Literature
R. Wagner-Rieger ed.), Die Wiener Ringstrasse - Bild einer 
Epoche, 11vols., 1969-79.


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