Exhibition on Architectural Giant Fabiani Opens Today
A two-week exhibition on Maks Fabiani, a pioneer of modernism in Slovenian architecture, is to open at the Museum of Architecture in Ljubljana on Tuesday.
The exhibition entitled "Good-bye Vienna, Hello Stanjel" is a celebration of the architect's 140th birthday. However, the show does not not revolve around his exceptional architectural achievements, but is rather an homage to Fabiani as a person, architect and thinker.
Fabiani (1865-1962) studied at the Vienna Polytechnics, and worked together with Otto Wagner. Despite outstanding contributions to the architecture of Vienna, Ljubljana and Gorizia, to name but a few, he is also considered a "people's architect".
The exhibition covers three different periods in Fabiani's life. The first part documents his early years at the family estate in Kobdilj, his Vienna studies and rapid professional success.
The second is marked by his return to Kobdilj after World War I, where he focused on a wide scale of post-war reconstruction of Slovenia's southeastern region, also acting as the mayor of Stanjel.
The end of World War II ushered in the final period in Fabiani's life, as he took on yet another reconstruction of Stanjel and Kobdilj.
His major architectural achievements include the Portois & Fix, Urania and Artaria buildings in Vienna, the Bamberger house, Krisper house, the Mladika building and the Jakopic pavilion in Ljubljana and the Narodni dom, Stabile palace and Bartoli house in Trieste.
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