Wilhelm Stiassny
Wilhelm Stiassny (* October 15, 1842 in Bratislava, † July 11, 1910 in Bad Ischl ) was an agent working in Vienna Jewish architect, co-founder of the Vienna building workshop, Vienna and City Council as well as an active member of the Jewish community. His main work is residential and commercial buildings and social buildings, particularly known are its built in Moorish style synagogue.
Life
Wilhelm Stiassny was the eldest son of the merchant Abraham Stiassny and his wife Josephine, who was born in Breslau, in Bratislava, Bratislava born today. When he was four years old, the family moved to Vienna, where she lived in the " textile district ". From 1848 Stiassny visited first the Leopoldstädter parish school and high school, then secondary school at Heiligenkreuzerhof and then the lower and upper secondary school also in the center of Vienna. In the years 1857-1861 he studied at the Imperial Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, higher mathematics, physics, descriptive geometry, mechanics, practical geometry, agriculture, hydraulic engineering and drawings. In October 1861 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Eduard van der Null, Carl Rosner, Friedrich von Schmidt and August Sicard von Sicardsburg to 1866. Together with fellow students, he founded in 1862 the Viennese building workshop, an association of students of the Academy, later joined almost all the Viennese architect. In February 1864 he was admitted as a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects Club.
After graduating Stiassny 1867 was a delegate of the Austrian Commission to the installation work of the World Exhibition in Paris, where he belonged to the international jury for workers' houses, a subject that occupied him from then on, and in 1868 led to the founding of the Vienna -profit construction company, which as a precursor the Sozialbaubewegung applies.
After five years in the studio of Friedrich von Schmidt and several study trips to Stiassny had 1868 as a freelance architect in Vienna down. In the same year he married Julia Taussig, an educated Hungarian Jew from Székesfehérvár, which promoted her husband's career with her Viennese salon. Their only son Sigmund was born in 1873. Stiassny soon belonged to the most popular architects in Vienna and employed several employees, such as Ignaz Reiser (1863-1940), who was involved especially in the synagogues.
In the years 1878-1900 and 1904-1910 Stiassny as a representative of the Liberal member of the Vienna City Council, where he mainly dealt with issues of architecture and urban planning, and had to contend with the burgeoning anti-Semitism. In 1894 he was convicted in one of an anti-Semitic council strained honor Insult process to twelve hours arrest, a judgment which upheld on appeal, but was converted to a fine of 50 guilders. 1894-1895 Stiassny was also the Vienna city council, had this office but because of the anti-Semitism of the Christian- Social Party of Karl Lueger give up.
From 1879 until his death was Stiassny board member of the Jewish Community Vienna, where he was responsible among other things for the construction industry. He was also a founding member of the Vienna Lodge of B'nai B'rith and founded several associations for the support of the Jewish population in Vienna. In early February 1895, the Society of collection and Conservirung was founded by art and historical monuments of Judaism, was elected its president Stiassny. On 1 November of the same year the world's first Jewish museum of its kind was opened at the Town Hall Road 13 in Vienna. The house was built 1881-1882 by Stiassny for his wife and served the family until 1901 as a residence and Stiassny as a studio.
Stiassny had contact with Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism since 1895 at the latest. 1904, the Jewish Colonization Association was founded at Vienna, whose president Stiassny was up to his death, and its official colonization project he worked: A 54 - page publication is divided into chapters geography of Palestine, population, trade, industry, transport, colonization, Jewish colonies, Our colony and Political, Financial, which first reported in detail about plans for Jewish settlements in Palestine. In addition, Stiassny has also designed a plan for the future city of Tel Aviv, without ever having been in Palestine.
Stiassny 1883 was awarded the title kk building officer, ten years later, he received the taxfreie citizenship of the city of Vienna, 1903, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order. 1900-1901 Stiassny built a house in the center of Vienna at the Kruger Street 8, where he lived from 1901 until his death and worked. He died on July 11, 1910 during a spa stay in Bad Ischl and was buried on July 14 in Vienna's Central Cemetery.
Work
Stiassny was one of the busiest architects of his time. He built about 170 residential and commercial buildings, factories, schools, hospitals, twelve neo- Moorish and neo- Romanesque synagogues, as well as mortuary, mostly for Jewish clients.
- Israelite Institute for the Blind in Vienna Dobling, 1871-72
- Rothschild Hospital in Vienna Waehring, 1870-75
- Ceremonial hall in Vienna's central cemetery, Israelite Department, 1st goal from 1877 to 1879
- Synagogue in Malacky, built in 1887, probably in 1899 almost completely destroyed by lightning and rebuilt to 1900
- Synagogue in Jablonec, 1891-92, destroyed November 1938
- Synagogue Leopoldgasse (Polish School ) in Vienna, 1892-93, November 1938 devastated, demolished 1959-1960
- Temple Stanisławów, Galicia, now Ivano -Frankivsk, Ukraine, 1894-99
- Synagogue in Wiener Neustadt, 1901-02
- Jerusalem Synagogue, originally Jubilee Synagogue in Prague, 1904-06
- Grave monuments, including the tomb for members of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family
Synagogues
Synagogue in Stanisławów today Ivano -Frankivsk, inaugurated in 1899; Postcard 1910
Synagogue Leopold in Vienna, opened in 1893, destroyed in 1938; old postcard with an idealized view
Synagogue Leopoldgasse from: General Bauzeitung 1894
Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague, opened in 1904; old postcard