Talk:Haus Wittgenstein

But WHERE in the world is the house?

Factual Inaccuracy: I believe that Paul Engelmann and Wittgenstein met in Olmutz while Wittgenstein was training to be an Artillery Officer. They did not meet, as the article claims, 'in the trenches.' Paul had been deemed medically unfit to serve some time before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.156.140 (talk) 13:26, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistency with the page on Wittgenstein
The page on W has quite a bit to say about the design of this house, and it doesn't actually gel very well with what is said on this page about the house. Perhaps someone familiar with the source material would like to amend one page or the other to create a more unified representation of the facts as they are known? To quote from the Wittgenstein page:


 * After abandoning his work as a school teacher, Wittgenstein worked as a gardener's assistant in a monastery near Vienna, after being convinced that it would be more fulfilling to be a gardener's assistant rather than a gardener. He considered becoming a monk,[35] but despite his reputed determination and stability, went only so far as to enquire about the requirements for joining an order. Two major developments helped to save Wittgenstein from this despairing state. The first was an invitation from his sister Margaret ("Gretl") Stonborough, (whose portrait was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1905), to work on the design and construction of her new house. He worked with the architect, Paul Engelmann, who had become his friend during the war, when they spent a lot of time in each other's company in the trenches, and the two designed a spare modernist house after the style of Adolf Loos (whom they both greatly admired). Wittgenstein found the work extremely intellectually absorbing and exhausting; he poured himself into the design in painstaking detail, including even small aspects such as doorknobs, kitchen faucets, bath shower-heads, latrine commodes and radiators, spending a year on each as they had to be exactly positioned to maintain the symmetry of the rooms.[35] As a work of modernist architecture the house evoked some high praise from his immediate family; G. H. von Wright said that it was as good as his book Tractatus. The effort of totally involving himself in intellectual work once again did much to restore Wittgenstein's spirits. Of the house, Ludwig's eldest sister, Hermine, wrote: "Even though I admired the house very much, I always knew that I neither wanted to, nor could, live in it myself. It seemed indeed to be much more a dwelling for the gods."[37]

Sethop (talk) 08:21, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

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I'm about to move this to Haus Wittgenstein, as that seems to be the most common name for it (thousands on Google, as opposed to 89 for Stonborough House. If there are objections let me know, and I'll move it back and start a requested move discussion. SlimVirgin  talk| contribs 05:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)