Yes, he was a hipster.

He was only good at drawing buildings; this was too limited for any fine arts school, never mind the one considered the most desirable to be at in Europe at the time ... and it never occurred to him to look to a commercial arts course/drafting when he got rejected from there.

He was also too good to wash dishes, which is why he was so poor and washed out of Vienna and wound up working out of a men's homeless shelter in Munich. WW1 saved his ass from poverty and starvation.

But at the very least, he understood that nice buildings, and green spaces, and not crowding people in cheek by jowl was important to the human psyche.

(And people who are so into opera were just as rare then as they are now. Popular music existed then, too.)

Yes, he was a hipster.

He was only good at drawing buildings; this was too limited for any fine arts school, never mind the one considered the most desirable to be at in Europe at the time ... and it never occurred to him to look to a commercial arts course/drafting when he got rejected from there.

He was also too good to wash dishes, which is why he was so poor and washed out of Vienna and wound up working out of a men's homeless shelter in Munich. WW1 saved his ass from poverty and starvation.

But at the very least, he understood that nice buildings, and green spaces, and not crowing people in cheek by jowl was important to the human psyche.

(And people who are so into opera were just as rare then as they are now. Popular music existed then, too.)