1873 Vienna World's Fair

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The 1873 Vienna World's Fair (

world exposition that was held from 1 May to 31 October 1873 in the Austria-Hungarian capital Vienna. Its motto was "Culture and Education" (German
: Kultur und Erziehung).

History

As well as being a chance to showcase Austro-Hungarian industry and culture, the World's Fair in Vienna commemorated

Danube River, and preparations cost £23.4 million.[2] It lasted from May 1st to November 2nd, hosting about 7,225,000 visitors.[2]

Facilities

There were almost 26,000 exhibitors[3] housed in different buildings that were erected for this exposition, including the Rotunda (Rotunde), a large circular building in the great park of Prater designed by the Scottish engineer John Scott Russell. (The fair Rotunda was destroyed by fire on 17 September 1937.)

Russian pavilion

The Russian pavilion had a naval section designed by Viktor Hartmann. Exhibits included models of the Port of Rijeka[4] and the Illés Relief model of Jerusalem.[5]

Japanese pavilion

The

capital's Confucian Temple in 1872; they eventually formed the core collection of the institution that became the Tokyo National Museum.[1]

Forty-one Japanese officials and government interpreters, as well as six Europeans in Japanese employ, came to Vienna to oversee the pavilion and the fair's cultural events. 25 craftsmen and gardeners created the main pavilion, as well as a full

Kamakura Buddha.[2] The year after the fair, Sano compiled a report on it which ran to 96 volumes divided into 16 parts, including a strong plea for the creation of a museum on western lines in the Japanese capital; the government further began hosting national industrial exhibitions at Ueno Park in 1877.[2]

  • A Western engraving of the Japanese craftsmen constructing the pavilion and garden
    A Western engraving of the Japanese craftsmen constructing the pavilion and garden
  • The foyer of the Japanese pavilion, from the Japanese report on the fair compiled under Tsunetami Sano
    The foyer of the Japanese pavilion, from the Japanese report on the fair compiled under Tsunetami Sano
  • The interior of the pavilion, including the golden shachi, from the Illustrated Times (Illustrirte Zeitung)
    The interior of the pavilion, including the golden shachi, from the Illustrated Times (Illustrirte Zeitung)
  • Part of the Japanese display, as seen from one of the Ottoman minarets
    Part of the Japanese display, as seen from one of the Ottoman minarets

Ottoman pavilion

Turkish bath, a cafe, and a bazaar.[9] The 1873 Ottoman pavilion was more prominent than its pavilion in 1867. The Vienna exhibition set off Western nations' pavilions against Eastern pavilions, with the host, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, setting itself at the juncture between East and West.[8] A report by the Ottoman commission for the exhibition expressed a goal of inspiring with their display "a serious interest [in the Ottoman Empire] on the part of the industrialists, traders, artists, and scholars of other nations...."[8]

The Ottoman pavilion included a gallery of mannequins wearing the traditional costumes of many of the varied ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire. To supplement the cases of costumes, Osman Hamdi and de Launay created a photographic book of Ottoman costumes, the Elbise-i 'Osmaniyye (Les costumes populaires de la Turquie), with photographs by Pascal Sébah. The photographic plates of the Elbise depicted traditional Ottoman costumes, commissioned from artisans working in the administrative divisions (vilayets) of the Empire, worn by men, women, and children who resembled the various ethnic and religious types of the empire, though the models were all found in Istanbul. The photographs are accompanied by texts describing the costumes in detail and commenting on the rituals and habits of the regions and ethnic groups in question.[8]

  • Sultan Ahmed Fountain reconstructed for the fair
    Sultan Ahmed Fountain reconstructed for the fair

Italian pavilion

Professor Lodovico Brunetti of

crematory, one of the first modern ones. He exhibited it with a sign reading, "Vermibus erepti, puro consummimur igni," in english, "Saved from the worms, we are consumed by the flames."[10]

New Zealand pavilion

New Zealand was represented at the 1873

Vienna International Exposition by a collection of Māori clubs, mats and cloaks, as well as gold, woodwork, kauri gum and geological specimens. Photographs of New Zealand scenery were shown and examples of flour and beer were provided by local industries. A collection of birds was prepared by a London taxidermist and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary was said to have been "astonished" by a pair of moa skeletons from the Canterbury Museum. More than 50 awards were collected by New Zealand exhibitors but, apparently, because of a problem of categorisation on the part of the jurors, the moa display was not among them.[11]

Gallery

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b TNM (2019), Yushima Seido Exposition.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g TNM (2019), The World's Fair in Viena: The Origin of the Japanese Modern Museum.
  3. ^ Lowe, Charles (1892). Four national exhibitions in London and their organiser. With portraits and illustrations (1892). London, T. F. Unwin. p. 28. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  4. ^ "PATCHing the city 09". City of Rijeka. 2009. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  5. ^ "Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem | Model of Jerusalem in the 19th Century". Towerofdavid.org.il. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  6. ^ TNM (2019), The Jinshin Survey: Research of Cultural Properties.
  7. ^ Trencsényi, Balász; Kopečk, Michal (2007). "Osman Hamdi Bey and Victor Marie de Launay: The Popular Costumes of Turkey in 1873". Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945). National Romanticism: Formation of National Movements. Vol. II. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press. pp. 174–180.
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  11. ^ Wolfe, Richard (11 Nov 2019). "International Exhibitions". Auckland Museum. Archived from the original on 2020-02-01. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

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