Alfons Hetmanek
Alfons Hetmanek (born August 7, 1890 in Vienna ; † May 1, 1962 there ) was an Austrian architect.
education
After completing compulsory school in 1904, Alfons Hetmanek began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and also attended the state trade school , which he completed in 1909 with the final exam. In 1908 he became a member of the Aldania fraternity in Vienna . He then worked for the architect Oskar Reinhart as a draftsman and from 1910 to 1911 in the office of the architects Hubert and Franz Gessner. From 1912 to 1915 he completed his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Otto Wagner's master class , which he completed with the special school award of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Professional background
In 1916, Hetmanek signed up for voluntary military service on the Russian front, where he became a prisoner of war, was able to free himself from it and was finally retired as an ensign in 1918.
Together with his fellow student Franz Kaym , he designed the publication “Housing for people, today and tomorrow” in 1919, which can be seen as the theoretical basis for the Viennese settler movement . Hetmanek joined the Central Association of Architects in 1920 and founded an office community with Kaym in the same year.
In the years that followed, Kaym and Hetmanek received several orders from the City of Vienna, such as the construction of the “Am Flötzersteig” and Weißenböckstraße development . At the same time, they designed school and leisure facilities as well as extensions to existing industrial facilities in Lower Austria and Burgenland. In 1923 they received the honorary award of the City of Vienna as part of the Vienna allotment garden, settlement and housing exhibition .
In 1927, Hetmanek passed the civil engineer examination and was granted the license to become a civil engineer. Since 1929 he was a member of various committees of the Künstlerhaus. In 1935 the shared office with Kaym was dissolved.
During National Socialism, Hetmanek was released from military service and mainly worked in agricultural war planning. During this time he also took part in a number of competitions such as the planning of the new trade fair buildings and was responsible for the renovation of the Degussa headquarters in Vienna, which was completed in 1942. In 1940 he took over the office of his politically persecuted colleague Wilhelm Baumgarten . As his wife confirmed in 1945, the takeover took place at Baumgarten's personal request.
From 1945 Hetmanek took over the deputy head of the construction team for repairing war damage. In 1948, together with Carlos Riefel and Rudolf Pleban, the left wing of the Künstlerhaus was converted into a cinema. From 1949 he received several orders from the City of Vienna for the construction and reconstruction of several residential complexes and was thus able to build on the successes of the interwar period. Architecturally, however, there is no connection to the projects of the 1920s.
From 1956 to 1957 he directed the restoration of the porch of the Steinhof Church by Otto Wagner and in 1961 completed his private weekend house in Puchberg am Schneeberg. From 1956 to 1962 he was responsible for the reconstruction and renovation of the Theresian Academy . Hetmanek died in 1962 before the construction work was completed, which was subsequently completed by Erich Schlöss .
Private
In his first marriage, Hetmanek was from 1923 to 1931 with Rudolfine Hetmanek, geb. Römer (born April 17, 1893, † January 15, 1945) married; their son Herbert Hetmanek (born December 17, 1925) fell in 1945 in World War II. In his second marriage he married Margarethe Hetmanek, b. Schramm, used Pardy (born April 24, 1903).
Catalog raisonné
- 1947: pulmonary hospital
- 1956: Exhibition pavilion
- undated exhibition stands
- 1920: Interior design of the Elzer apartment
- 1953: Renovation of the house in Ubald-Kosersitz-Gasse
- 1924: Reconstruction of the rectory in the town hall (with Franz Kaym )
- 1924: Electricity company
- 1929: elementary school
- 1930: Swimming, air and sun bathing
- 1925: Glass factory workers' colony (with Kaym)
- 1926: Furnace hall of the glass factory
- 1959: "Dippethub" conversion
- 1928: residential and commercial building (with Kaym)
- 1929: Tomb of the Kidery family (with Kaym), sculptor F. Opitz
- 1961: Hetmanek weekend house
- 1926: elementary school (with Kaym)
- 1928: Elementary school (with Kaym)
- 1920: Interior design of Büro Felder
- 1925: Kindergarten
- 1920: Medical clinics
- 1921: House Wechsberg (with Kaym)
- 1922: "Trautes Heim" settlement complex (with Kaym)
- 1922: Elisabethallee settlement (with Kaym)
- 1922: Interior design of apartment K.
- 1923: Weißenböckstraße settlement (with Kaym)
- 1923: Volkswohnhaus Feldgasse (with Kaym)
- 1924: Swimming, air and water sports Liesing sunbathing
- 1924: House Neuhold (with Kaym)
- 1924: Liesing house (with Kaym)
- 1925: "Karl-Höger-Hof" residential complex (with Kaym and Hugo Gorge )
- 1925: Schlöglgasse housing estate (with Kaym)
- 1926: Interior design of apartment H.
- 1927: "Friedrich-Engels-Hof" residential complex (with Kaym)
- 1927: Reconstruction of Villa Braunschweig / Braunschweigschlößl (with Kaym)
- 1929: Extension of the "Kores" factory
- 1930: Interior design by Büro G. (with Hochner)
- 1931: "Am Flötzersteig" settlement (with Kaym)
- 1933: Settlement "Am Spiegelgrund" (with Kaym)
- 1933: Rental house Lazarettgasse (with Kaym)
- 1936: Commemorative plaque for the winners of the Olympic art competition at the Künstlerhaus
- 1942: Renovation of the Degussa headquarters
- 1946: Loft extension on Gottfried-Keller-Gasse
- 1946: Interior design of the Bakovsky dairy shop
- 1947: Grabenhof attic extension
- 1949: Künstlerhaus cinema (with Rieffel and Pleban)
- 1951: Reconstruction of the house on Dionysius Andrassy Street
- 1951: Housing complex at Untere Weißgerberstrasse 53–59
- 1953: Reconstruction of the Leebgasse residential building
- 1954: Reconstruction of the Rudolfinergasse residential building
- 1956: Reconstruction of the Silbergasse / Rudolfinergasse residential building
- 1956: House in Lambrechtsgasse
- 1957: Matschgasse residential complex (components 2 and 3)
- 1957: Restoration of the canopy of the Steinhof Church
- 1957: Hofmannsthalgasse residential complex (with Osika, Pongracz, Prutscher and Urbanek)
- 1958: Havlicek House
- 1962: Reconstruction of the Theresian Academy (components 1–4)
- 1962: Conversion of the riding school wing of the Theresianum
- 1962: Reizenpfenniggasse residential complex
- 1928: Interior design of apartment K.
Fonts
- with Franz Kaym: Homes for people, today and tomorrow. Vienna, Leipzig 1919.
- with Franz Kaym: Viennese architects, Franz Kaym - Alfons Hetmanek. Elbemühl, Vienna, Leipzig 1931.
- with Franz Kaym: Advice for furnishing apartments. Vienna no year
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 328–329.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfons Hetmanek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfons Hetmanek. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
- Alfons Hetmanek. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hetmanek, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1962 |
| Place of death | Vienna |