Wittgenstein's Stoneborough House 1926-28

hybrid studio

Yutaka SUZUKI Photography

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It is no necessary to caption on this house, because so many people not only architects but also scholars have been referring this architecture so far today. However, I am writing one thing that no one have ever mentioned.
I realised when I took pictures of interior that it was good to use an irregular film format of 6X12 which was 2:1 in length X side, as I felt it was a very different space from ordinary designed interior.
Indeed the whole building was designed precisely and each detail was formed like a fragment of his work "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", but I had no ideas how did it come the source of 2:1.

Gustav Klimt painted the portrait of Wittgenstein's sister Margaret Stoneborough who had owned this mansion. Klimt brought 2:1 format campus to paint her portrait. Although it was hard to say both Wittgenstein and Klimt lived in the same period, I could say both were in the same stream through the city of Vienna.

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