CHERNIVTSI MUSEUM OF ARTS
(FORMER HEAD OFFICE OF BUKOWINER SPARKASSE)
Built in
1900-1901
Architect:
Hubert Gessner
Location:
Centralna sq.
This
building erected in 1900-1901 was one of the best architecture works in the
whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Initially built as the head office of Bukowiner Sparkasse
the building had the style of Vienna secession. Bukowiner Sparkasse was designed
by Hubert Gessner, a pupil of Otto Wagner, the father of secession. Special
beauty is given to the building by its mosaic picture showing twelve antique
gods symbolizing twelve crowned provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The
panel center shows a girl in purple cloths symbolizing Austria and the guy with
the horse symbolizes Bukovyna.
GALLERY (click photos to enlarge)
| The mosaic
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| The dome
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| The spire
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| The left statue
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| The right statue
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| The left eagle
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| The right eagle |
| A bookstore and the central Tourist Information Office in the building |
| The text says: "Chernivtsi located on half-way between Kyiv and Bucharest, Krakow and Odessa was a secret capital of Europe where pavements were cleaned with bunches of roses and the number of bookstores exceeded the number of bakeries". |
| Tourist info plaque |
