Frits Bolkestein

Around 1900, Vienna was dominated by fin-de-siècle culture. Famous Jugendstil artists such as Gustav Klimt were living and working in the capital of the Habsburg Empire, architects such as Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos were changing the face of the city. Frits Bolkestein’s talk aimed at analyzing the reasons for the feelings of malaise that were prevalent in Vienna during the fin-de-siècle of the Austro-Hungarian empire – in spite of considerable economic growth and many eminent names in the arts and sciences.