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48 VILLA AUSPITZ BY HELMUT CAMILLO WAGNER-FREYNSHEIM Year 1930 Status Modified Material Plaster Pigment Scale 1:50 Model maker Lung Peng In 1929, the architect Helmut Wagner-Freynsheim, a student and former employee of Adolf Loos, built the Villa Auspitz at Wallmodengasse 10 in the 19th district of Vienna.1 The house was designed as a country house for the banker and art collector Stefan Ritter von Auspitz Artenegg, and was built on the top of the Hohe Warte hill, which is at the foot of the mountains Kahlenberg and Hermannskogel. The villa is a combination of square volumes, bounded by balconies, terraces and flat roofs, with a round structure that opens out westward to a view over Vienna. Now a brick red, the house was originally meant to be painted mainly in orange. Initially, a variety of different surface materials and colours decorated the interior. The walls of the living room were painted green and the wooden ceiling red, the walls of the dining room were painted yellow and the doors and cupboards were made of wood painted blue. The bedrooms were planked in blue painted wood and as for the bathroom, with its green plastic floor, green coloured glass was used.2 The original appearance of the house was eventually destroyed by added floors, extensions, winter gardens and balconies. 1 Achleitner, Friedrich (2010): Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Führer in vier Bänden. Band III/3 Wien: 19.-23. Bezirk. Salzburg, Wien: Residenz Verlag. 103. 2 Rosenberger, Werner (2015): Auf der Hohen Warte: Flair & Mythos des berühmten Wiener Villenviertels. Wien: Metroverlag. 215- 220.