The exhibition “Berg, Wittgenstein, Zuckerkandl” (March 2018 – February 2019) at the Literature Museum offered a glimpse into Viennese Modernism as a “laboratory for the end of the world” (Karl Kraus). At its centre were Berta Zuckerkandl’s cultural networks, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as a key work of the era, and Alban Berg’s literature-influenced music. The show highlighted the close interconnection of art, philosophy, music, and society around 1900.

External link: Literature Museum

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At the Literature Museum in Vienna, the permanent exhibition features original manuscripts by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Among them is a manuscript of the original version of the Philosophical Investigations from 1936/37. Particularly noteworthy is the presence of the term "language game" (Sprachspiel) in the manuscript, a concept that has received considerable attention. Also on display is a diary spanning the years 1930 to 1937. The exhibition includes a letter from Wittgenstein to Paul Engelmann. In addition, other exhibits honour Wittgenstein’s life and work, including a letter from Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the beneficiaries of Wittgenstein’s donated inheritance.

External link: Literature Museum Permanent Exhibition

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The Wren Library is the library of Trinity College and houses the manuscripts of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which are occasionally put on display. One photograph taken by Wittgenstein himself (Nedo, 2012, S. 323) shows Fania Pascal, with what I believe to be the Wren Library visible in the background.

Sources:

Nedo, M. (2012). Ludwig Wittgenstein: Ein biographisches Album. C.H. Beck.

Own Research.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s house in Norway, once known to the locals as “Østerrike” (Norwegian for “Austria”), now stands once more on its original site. Thanks to the efforts of the local Wittgenstein Foundation (Stiftinga Wittgenstein i Skjolden), the building – dismantled in 1958 – was reconstructed and re-erected in its original location. Since its reopening in 2019, the house has grown steadily in popularity, drawing an increasing number of visitors each year. In 2022, we too had the privilege of visiting Skjolden and viewing the house. We were kindly invited to share our impressions with the Stiftinga Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein designed the house himself following his first stay in Skjolden in 1913, and it was completed as early as 1914. However, due to his service in the First World War, he was only able to make full use of it several years later.

P.S. I’m building myself a little house here in solitude.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, letter to Bertrand Russell, April 1914

Throughout his life, Wittgenstein sought out places of retreat that would allow him to concentrate undisturbed on his philosophical work. What he valued most about Norway was its “quiet seriousness,” as he noted in a letter from 1936.

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