Alfons Fritz (architect)

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Architect Alfons Fritz, around 1927

Johann Maria Alfons Fritz (born August 2, 1900 in Andelsbuch , Vorarlberg , † February 7, 1933 in Dornbirn ) was a building artist and architect.

Life

Origin and family

Fritz was born the son of the hat maker Alois Fritz († 1913), who was organist and choir regent in his free time, and his wife Maria Ursula Meusburger. He had a younger brother, Anton (1901-1989), who entered the teacher training college in 1915 and was headmaster in Andelsbuch from 1938 onwards.

Alfons Fritz met his wife Hildegard Mümmler in Vienna in 1925, whom he married after a short acquaintance. They moved to Dornbirn together. There are three children from the marriage. His middle son Rochus had Luis Trenker as godfather, who had worked with Clemens Holzmeister .

Education

He attended secondary school in Dornbirn until 1919 (this is where he met his friend Edmund Kalb ) and actually wanted to be a painter first, but then switched to architecture because of the better prospects of income . Fritz then studied under difficult financial circumstances (a loan came from Professor of General Art History Joseph Popp ) architecture in Munich at the Technical University , graduating with honors after only four years. He submitted his thesis to Heinrich von Schmidt in 1923 .

His fellow students were among others Heinz Moll .

activities

At the end of 1923 he moved to Clemens Holzmeister's architectural office in Innsbruck . In 1924, he and his friend Bartle Kleber illustrated the special Bregenzerwald issue of Heimat magazine . In 1925, Holzmeister appointed Alfons Fritz to his private studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for a short time .

Alfons Fritz moved to Dornbirn in mid-1926 and worked briefly for the JA Albrich construction business .

In November 1926 he opened his own architecture office in Dornbirn and was able to present a letter of recommendation from German Bestelmeyer . In 1927 he designed the logo of the Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein .

From 1928 to 1930 he worked as an assistant teacher and from the beginning of May 1932 taught at the Federal College for Building and Electrical Engineering in Bregenz . This was followed by his appointment as a court-sworn expert in 1929. He then passed the civil architect exam in mid-1932. In 1933, the civil engineer for building construction was confirmed as credit for the civil architect.

Parish Church Ebnit
Marktstrasse 29 in Dornbirn
House Rinderer, Pater-Grimm-Weg 16 in Feldkirch. Still largely in its original condition

Works (selection)

Fritz was mainly active in Vorarlberg. Here he created, among other things, the designs for the following construction projects:

In addition, other residential, hotel and public buildings that were created by him have been preserved.

A catalog of works with photos and floor plans can be found at Ute Denkberger.

Competitions

  • Stand protection monument on Bergisel . Clemens Holzmeister won the second, Alfons Fritz the third prize.
  • 1924 War Memorial Chapel on Mount of Olives, Bezau : second place after Kaspar Albrecht

literature

  • Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: “ Andelsbuch ”, “ From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community ”, Andelsbuch community, Andelsbuch 1980.
  • Ute Denkberger, “ The work of the architect Alfons Fritz (1900-1933) ”, master's thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 2016, online
  • Christian Hiller, " Architect Alfons Fritz ", in " Alemania magazine for all areas of knowledge and art ", vol. 7, 1934, issue 1, pp. 81–86.
  • " Alfons Fritz, Dornbirn: a building artist in Vorarlberg and his life's work " with a memorial by Clemens Holzmeister and appreciation of Josef Karl Franz Naumann , Munich and Vienna 1933, Widmann industrial and commercial publishing house.
  • Walter Johler, " Architect Alfons Fritz (1900-1933): the Bregenz architect on his 100th birthday ", in " Bregenzerwald-Heft ", vol. 19, 2000, pp. 61–75.
  • Barbara Herta Schneider, " The Sankt Maria Magdalena in Ebnit by the architect Alfons Fritz: a description of the church and the previous buildings ", Salzburg 2000, University of Salzburg (diploma thesis).
  • Helmut Swozilek, " War memorials in Vorarlberg" especially Albert Bechtold and Alfons Fritz " " in: " The grave monuments in the Alpine regions / atti a cura di Roberto Codroico ... ", Bozen 1989, p. 143.

Web links

Commons : Alfons Fritz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handcrafted gems by Hutmacher Fritz | Bregenzerwald News. Retrieved April 22, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Ute Denkberger: The work of the architect Alfons Fritz (1900-1933). 2016, p. 160 , accessed April 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Partial list based on: Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: “ Andelsbuch ”, “ From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community ”, p. 146.
  4. ↑ Geschichtsverein Bludenz ( Memento from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 12.
  5. ↑ Object ID: 6280; Vorarlberg - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  6. ↑ Object ID: 65229.
  7. ↑ Dornbirn.info ( Memento from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Object ID: 107744.
  9. ^ Austrian Comradeship Association. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritz, Johann Maria Alfons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Building artist and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelsbuch , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1933
Place of death Dornbirn , Vorarlberg