Franz Neumann (architect)

Franz Ritter von Neumann the Younger (born 16 January 1844 in Vienna, † February 1, 1905 ) was an Austrian architect and politician.

Life and work

Franz Ritter von Neumann sprang from a famous family of architects. Next to him, his father, Franz von Neumann the Elder (1815-1888), and his brother Gustav von Neumann (1856-1928), famous Viennese architects. He began his career as a pupil of the famous Ringstrasse architects Eduard van der Null and August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Friedrich von Schmidt, whose staff later he became. One of his first works, created in collaboration with Schmidt were built from 1878 to 1883 arcaded houses on the main square. Then Franz Ritter von Neumann worked largely independently. The architect specializing mainly villas, residential and office buildings, and churches. Franz Ritter von Neumann developed in the course of his work from a more rigorous neo too late historicist forms.

His political career began Franz Ritter von Neumann in 1891 as the city council. He held until 1895 this position. 1889-1900 he was ( for the district Josefstadt ) Member of the Vienna City Council.

On the afternoon of February 1, 1905 Baurat Neumann and his wife wanted to travel by train to Semmering, as Neumann collapsed in South Station on the platform and a little later succumbed to a heart attack. The funeral procession on February 4, 1905, from the house of mourning, Piaristengasse 13 in Vienna -Josefstadt, to Piaristenkirche Maria Treu, where the consecration service took place. The deceased was laid to rest in the family tomb in the Vienna Central Cemetery on the same day.

Structures

Vienna

  • Arcaded houses on the main square, 1878-1883
  • Villa Kuffner and Kuffner Observatory, 1884-1886, 1890
  • Anton Church in Favorites, 1896-1901
  • Habsburgwarte on the Hermannskogel, 1888
  • Donaufelder Church, 1905
  • Volksheim Ottakring, Vienna, 1905
  • Centrale II of Staatstelephons, Vienna - Alsergrund, Hahnengasse 4 (left) and Berg Gasse 35, 1897/99

Lower Austria

Bohemia and Moravia

  • Hall of Reichenberg, 1892
  • Hall of Friedland, 1893
  • Tomb and chapel of the judges in family Raspenau
  • Altvaterturm, 1904
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