Heinrich von Ferstel
Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel (* July 7, 1828 in Vienna, † July 14, 1883 in Grinzing today to Vienna) was an Austrian architect, university professor and is considered an outstanding representative of historicism.
Life and work
As the son of Ignaz Ferstel, a bank manager from Prague, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Art under Eduard van der Null and August Sicard von Sicardsburg (1812-1868) architecture. His special talent enabled him to win smaller, winning Concurrencen and study trips to Germany, in 1855 Italy and finally France.
For the competition for the Votive Church, the first building project of the then projected Ringstrasse, Ferstel filed a neo-Gothic design in the style of French Gothic. This he did, just before he began his journey to Italy, and he was just in Naples, when he received the news that the first prize had fallen on his design and he had won 4,000 florins, which formed the basis of a later considerable fortune. The victory in this competition he came to sudden prominence in 1855, he had prevailed against 74 competitors from home and abroad.
He built a few other public buildings in the city center and the ring road. After starting out in a romanticized historicism ( at Freyung in Vienna, today named banking and stock exchange building Ferstel that the well-known coffee house Café Central is home ), he turned to a more severe style and was stylistically not least by his professor at the Polytechnic very influential. On his initiative, the Vienna Cottage Club was founded, who founded the Cottage District, enable with the aim of " the citizens live in healthy fresh air " to.
Ferstel lived with his family, his wife Lotte († April 8, 1922 ) and the six children in a villa in Grinzing, which had not yet been incorporated to Vienna and a village was. He was buried at the cemetery Grinzinger ( MA group, number 46) in a dedicated honorary tomb; his mausoleum is modeled on a Gothic chapel. The inscription on the tomb plate mentions only his name and that of his wife Lotte, a born Fehlmann. Was built in the family tomb in 1891 by Heinrich von Ferstel son, Max von Ferstel, who was an architect, Councilor and Professor at the Technical University in Vienna and also as other family members were buried there.
1879 Ferstel was appointed an honorary citizen in Vienna and charged by Emperor Franz Joseph I in the hereditary baron. 1882 Royal Gold Medal he was awarded.
He stood for years in the personal contact with Hermann von der Hude (1830-1908) wanted to report in the Assembly of Architects Club, Berlin on his life and work on 3 September 1883.
In 1886 (9th district) was named immediately after the Votive Church, the Ferstelgasse after him in Vienna Alsergrund. In 1980 he built the bank and stock exchange building was named to the Freyung part of the regeneration by the owner Ferstel.
Buildings
- Votive Church in Vienna, design 1855, construction 1856-1879
- Bank and Stock Exchange Building at Freyung (now Palais Ferstel ) in Vienna, 1860
- Christ Church, Evangelical Church, the so-called Red Church, Brno, 1862-1868
- Palais Wertheim am Schwarzenberg in Vienna, 1868
- Palais Archduke Ludwig Viktor on Schwarzenberg in Vienna, 1869
- Museum of Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK ) ), 1871
- St. Jacob's Church, Brno, redesign of the interior, 1871-1879
- Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, 1870-1872
- Garden Palace in Vienna 9, Alserbachstraße 14-16, at the Palais Liechtenstein, 1873-1875
- School of Applied Arts (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna) in Vienna, 1877
- Evangelical Church of the Redeemer in Bielsko -Biala, rebuilding 1881/1882
- Palazzo del Austríaco Lloyd ( Lloyd 's Palace) in Trieste, 1883
- Main building of the University of Vienna, 1883
Ferstel built than those referred to other palaces and villas.
Employee
- Johann Mathias von Holst (1839-1905), Baltic- German architect