Visionäre & Vertriebene
Österreichische Spuren in der modernen amerikanischen Architektur

Continuing its focus on architecture, Kunsthalle Wien presented an overview of the works of Austrian modern architects who emigrated or were displaced to the United States between 1911 and 1941. The Anglo-American cultural sphere offered an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the European avant-garde. But it was also a land of hope for a wide variety of architectural visions whose realisation seemed unthinkable in Europe.

Visionäre & Vertriebene [Visionaries & Displaced Persons] aimed to broaden the perspective on Austrian modernism and paint a broader picture of this movement than had been known to date. The exhibition spanned from the first (in the European sense) modern buildings of the 1920s in the USA to important projects from the 1950s.

In addition, a symposium with international experts was held at the Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Architects:
Felix Augenfeld, Rudolf Baumfeld, Wilhelm Baumgarten, Josef Franz Dex, Josef Frank, Paul Theodore Frankl, Viktor Gruen, Arthur Grünberger, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Gerhard Karplus, Friedrich Kiesler, Leopold Kleiner, Ernst Lichtblau, Fritz Malcher, Emanuel Neubrunn, Richard J. Neutra, Fritz Reichl, Bernard Rudofsky, Rudolph Michael Schindler, Simon Schmiderer, Ernst Schwadron, Walter Sobotka, Anton Tedesko, Joseph Urban, Hans Adolf Vetter, Oskar Wlach, Liane Zimbler