Gedenktafel Otto Rudolf Schatz

On January 22, 2016, a memorial plaque for the artist Rudolf Schatz was unveiled at the Franz-Novy-Hof in the district of Ottakring. Schatz was the creator of the ceramic mosaic "100.000 new municipal housing units" located on the façade of the municipal building. Schatz was persecuted by the NS regime due to his socially critical work and his marriage to a Jewish woman. He was initially able to flee with his wife Vally to the former Czechoslovakia, but was arrested there and interned in various forced labor camps. He survived, but his work only gained recognition long after his death.