Wollzeile No. 3, Zinshaus des Peter Ritter von Calvagni
1860s
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 29.9 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 61.2 × 42.7 cm (24 1/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
234529
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling streets of 1860s Vienna withWollzeile No. 3, Zinshaus des Peter Ritter von Calv*, an anonymous albumen print that captures the architectural elegance of rental house (Zinshaus) owned by the noble Peter Ritter von Calvagni.led on Wollzeile No. 3 in the city's historic first district, this image freezes a moment of urban life during the Gründerzeit era, when Vienna was transforming into a modern metropolis amid rapid industrialization and Haussmann-inspired redevelopment. The albumen print medium, a hallmark of mid-19th-century photography, used egg whites to create a glo...
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...