Emil Hütter

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The Chaos Foundation House on Kärntner Strasse shortly before demolition (Emil Hütter 1873)

Emil Hütter (born May 14, 1835 in Vienna ; † January 21, 1886 there ) was an Austrian draftsman , watercolorist , etcher and lithographer .

Life

The autodidact of drawings, Hütter, worked as a treasurer for the Viennese magistrate. As an artist, he documented the changes in the Viennese cityscape of his time in precise form and recorded in particular the bastions of the Viennese city walls that were intended to be demolished, as well as many valuable buildings that had to give way to speculation from the Wilhelminian era . Hütter worked as an illustrator for Wilhelm Maximilian Kisch and conducted historical studies. Hüttergasse in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau has been named after him since 1954 .

literature

  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien. Vienna 2004, vol. 3 p. 295f

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The Vienna of the bastions. Panorama by Carl Wenzel Zajicek after Emil Hütter