1 Privy Councillor Arthur von Scala: Arthur von Scala (1845–1909), the director of Vienna’s Oriental Museum, took over the Museum of Art and Industry, which he remodelled along the lines of the English Arts and Crafts movement.
2 Eitelberger: Rudolf Eitelberger von Edeleberg (1817–85), art historian and reputed founder of the Vienna School of Art History.
3 Meister Diefenbach: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913), German painter.
4 Rigo: Rigó Jancsi (1858–1927), a famous Hungarian Romany violinist who has a type of chocolate cake named after him.
5 Holy Clauren: Pseudonym of Karl Heun (1771–1854), author of sentimental tales that appealed to the German bourgeoisie.
6 Lenbach: Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904), a prominent German portrait-painter.
7 Sacher-Masoch, Catulle Mendès and Armand Sylvestre: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–95), an Austrian author best known for the novella Venus in Furs (1870). He gave his name to the term masochism. Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), a French poet and writer, author of the erotic novel Roman d’une nuit, for which he was imprisoned. Paul-Armand Silvestre (1837–1901), a French poet, author of erotic verse, notably Les Sept Péchés capitaux. La luxure (1901).
8 le cul de Paris: A type of bustle popular in the 1870s.
9 Peter Altenberg: Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), Austrian writer and bon viveur, noted for his psychological studies of Viennese women and girls.
10 The Barrisons: The Barrison Sisters, a risqué vaudeville act from Copenhagen who toured Europe and the United States in the 1890s. Known as ‘the baddest girls in the world’.
11 Hic Rhodus, hic salta: Literally ‘This is Rhodes, jump here!’, from the Latin version of Aesop’s fable ‘The Boastful Athlete’. Meaning: ‘Prove what you can do, right now.’
12 a meaning preserved in the Germanic languages even today: The German word Decke means both ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
13 Schmidt: Friedrich von Schmidt (1825–91), architect, designer of Vienna City Hall.
14 Hansen: Theophil Hansen (1813–91), architect, one of the designers of Vienna’s Ringstrasse.
15 Ferstel: Heinrich von Ferstel (1828–83), architect, major contributor to the design of late nineteenth-century Vienna.
16 chamotte: A hard ceramic material, also known as grog and firesand.
17 Philippopel: A small town in Bulgaria.
18 Otto Eckmann: Otto Eckmann (1865–1902), German painter and designer, of the ‘floral’ Jugendstil school.
19 Van de Velde: Willem van de Velde (1633–1707), Dutch painter of seascapes.
20 Olbrich: Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908), Austrian architect.
21 Copenhagen cat: A porcelain figure of a cat made by the Danish Royal Porcelain Manufactory in the 1890s.
22 Habsburgwarte: A watchtower built on Hermannskogel, a hill in the Vienna Woods, in 1888–9.
23 the Hussars’ Temple: A neoclassical temple, also in the Vienna Woods, built in 1810.
24 revenue houses: Zinshaus, the nineteenth-century precursor of the tenement block.
25 Lainz: A part of western Vienna.