page_title: Vienna U-Bahn
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Vienna U-Bahn / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: Underground station de:U-Bahnhof Volkstheater (Wien) in Vienna Deutsch: de:U-Bahnhof Volkstheater (Wien) in Wien
context_page_description: The Vienna U-Bahn, where U-Bahn is an abbreviation of the German term Untergrundbahn, is one of the two rapid transit systems for Vienna, Austria. The second system is the Vienna S-Bahn. With the September 2017 opening of the 4.6 kilometers, five-station extension of the U1 line, the five-line U-Bahn network consists of 83.1 kilometers of route, serving 109 stations. It is the backbone of one of the best performing public transport systems worldwide according to UITP in June 2009. More than 1.3 million passengers rode the Vienna U-Bahn every day in 2009, and 567.6 million passengers used the U-Bahn in 2011, which declined to 428.8 million passengers in 2013. The network is undergoing expansion and rolling stock renewal. Since 1969, 200 million euros have been invested annually in the extension of the Vienna U-Bahn.
  The modern U-Bahn opened on 25 February 1978, but two of the lines extended and later designated as U-Bahn date back to the Stadtbahn system, which opened in 1898. Parts of the U2 and U6 lines began as subway tunnels built to accommodate earlier tram lines. Only the U1 and U3 were built wholly as new subway lines.
context_section_description: In common with many urban transit systems, the Vienna U-Bahn has art works in stations. These include:
  Aspern Nord: Aspern Affairs, two big artistic maps of Vienna at the end of the platform, one of 1809, where Napoleon has lived and one of 1912, where the airport in Aspern (at the time the biggest airport in Europe) can be seen. Also there are colored "livelines" above the tracks that show the names of famous people, and their birth and death dates. The art was created by Stephan Huber. Also, the main entrance of the station has a big flight roof.
  Erdberg: Mosaics Stadteinwärts and Stadtauswärts by Peter Atanasov
  Hütteldorfer Straße: U-BauAlphabet by Georg Salner
  Johnstraße: übertragung by Michael Schneider
  Karlsplatz: Pi by Ken Lum
  Karlsplatz: Spatial installation by Peter Kogler
  Karlsplatz: Frieze Unisono di colori by Ernst Friedrich und Eleonor Friedrich
  Landstraße: E-mail wall by Oswald Oberhuber
  Landstraße: Planet der Pendler mit den drei Zeitmonden by Kurt Hofstetter
  Laurenzgasse: Mural by Heimo Zobernig
  Museumsquartier: Lauf der Geschöpfe, Der Jubilierende, Wächter, Lebenskeim and Tor des Verborgenen by Rudi Wach
  Ottakring: U-Turn by Margot Pilz
  Ottakring: Graffiti wall by Wiener Graffiti Union
  Praterstern: Einen Traum träumen und ihn mit anderen teilen ... by Susanne Zemrosser
  Schottentor: varying installations in glass case
  Schweglerstraße: Kunst der Technik by Nam June Paik
  Stadlau: Nepomuk by Werner Feiersinger
  Stubentor: Bewegungen der Seele by Michael Hedwig
  Südtiroler Platz - Hauptbahnhof: SUED by Franz Graf
  Taborstraße: ein Garten (zum Beispiel) by Ingeborg Strobl
  Volkstheater: Das Werden der Natur by Anton Lehmden
  Westbahnhof: Cirka 55 Schritte durch Europa by Adolf Frohner
  Zippererstraße: Kid's Kunst - Mobilität im kommenden Jahrtausend (children's art)
  Rochusgasse: Roman archaeological remains
caption: Wall paintings in the station Volkstheater (U2, U3) Das Werden der Natur
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