This building was already 200 years old when Mark Twain
lived in Vienna in 1897 and 1898. From Freud to Klimt, fin-de-siecle Vienna
was a hothouse of emerging notions in psychology and modernism—ideas that
swelled across the doorsteps of Viennese cafes into sea changes in the arts,
humanities, and social sciences. No shrinking Missouri bumpkin, the polyglot
Twain was alive here. Want to learn more? Read Carl
Domeltsch's superlative
Our
Famous Guest: Mark Twain in Vienna.
