Otto Wagner (1841 - 1918)

Hofburg Palace, Throne Room, Main Facade
(never executed)
1895
Blue ink, watercolours, white highlights
© Museums of the City of Vienna, Vienna

Wagner's throne hall was intended to complete Gottfried Semper's 1869/70 plan for an Imperial Forum, and to replace Semper's design for a new building replacing the Leopoldinische Trakt, a wing of the Old Hofburg Palace.