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Otto Wagner (1841-1918)  Portrait of Otto Wagner (1841-1918) © Christies New York, Masterworks 1900-2000, 8th June 00'  1902 Otto Wagner furnished the Vienna offices of the newspaper "Die Zeit"; this armchair by J. & J. Kohn was fitted with aluminium. © Christies New York, Masterworks 1900-2000, 8th June 00' Around 1900 Vienna became a European metropolis; the number of inhabitants had nearly quadrupled since 1840 (1.6 Mio.). Urban planning problems, hygiene problems and traffic problems resulted. In addition to villas, office buildings and apartment buildings (e.g. Linke Wienzeile 1898-1900) Wagner also designed the buildings of the Vienna City railway (1894-1901, now the U6 line). Wagner's ideas were also taken up by his most important pupils Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, whereby their interpretations could not have been more different.
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