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<p>Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.<br> &nbsp;<br> <i>Good Living Street</i> takes us from the Gallias’ middle-class prosperity in the provinces of central Europe to their arrival in Vienna, following the provision of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1848 that gave Jews freedom of movement and residence, legalized their religious services, opened public service and professions up to them, and allowed them to marry.<br> &nbsp;<br> The Gallias, like so many hundreds of thousands of others, came from across the Hapsburg Empire to Vienna, and for the next two decades the city that became theirs was Europe’s center of art, music, and ideas.<br> &nbsp;<br> The Gallias lived beyond the Ringstrasse in Vienna’s Fourth District on the Wohllebengasse (translation: Good Living Street), named after Vienna’s first nineteenth-century mayor.<br> &nbsp;<br> In this extraordinary book we see the amassing of the Gallias’ rarefied collections of art and design;

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Author

Tim Bonyhady

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307906816

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.73 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14