Alfred Bayer (architect)

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Villa Bayer in Karlovy Vary

Alfred Bayer (born February 10, 1859 in Karlsbad , † March 3, 1916 ibid) was a German-Bohemian architect and builder who worked in Vienna and Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary). His buildings are designed in the style of historicism and the Vienna Secession .

Act

He was born as the son of the police officer Michael Bayer and his wife Barbara, b. Nasler, born in Karlsbad. After attending school in Karlsbad, he graduated from the Holzminden building trade school . He then studied at the Polytechnic in Prague with Josef Zítek . In Karlovy Vary he was involved in the construction of the Mill Colonnade by the architect Josef Zítek. In 1887/88 he passed the master builder examination and received the master builder license. He then worked from 1888 to 1910 as an architect and site manager at the Fellner & Helmer architectural office in Vienna. During this time he led the construction of the Volksoper Vienna and the Raimundtheater in Vienna as well as the construction of the city theater in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem). From 1911 he ran a construction firm in Karlsbad and carried out numerous buildings in Karlsbad. As a city architect, he was also a member of the City Council for Construction in Karlovy Vary.

Buildings (selection)

  • City Theater Karlsbad (as an employee at Fellner & Helmer, 1884–1886)
  • Jägerhaus establishment, hotel and restaurant, in Karlsbad (1894)
  • Villa Heinrich Wettach in Laibach (Ljubljana), Prešernova cesta 31 (1897)
  • House in Vienna 6, Strohmayergasse 7 (1899)
  • Mietpalais in Vienna 4, Brahmsplatz 1 (1900)
  • Factory, Vienna 3, Baumgasse 42 (1900–1910)
  • numerous hotel buildings in Karlovy Vary:
    • Villa Charlotte, Petra Velikého 928/4
    • Villa Rusalka, formerly Villa Klemm, Petra Velikého 1020/12 (1897)
    • Hotel Savoy Westend, Petra Velikého 583/16 (1897)
    • Hotel "Pasteur", Vřídelní 95/25 (1897)
    • Hotel "Atlantic", Tržiště 37/23 (1912–1914)
    • Hotel "Esplanade", Stará Louka 374/4 (1913)
    • Hotel "Bremen", now Hotel Ester, Tržiště 388/43
    • Hotel "White Lion", Tržiště 36/21 (demolished 1985)
    • Hotel "Moscow" and Hotel "Neapel", Mariánskolázeňská 19 to 23 (now part of the Carlsbad Plaza Hotel)
    • Peter the Great's House, Stará Louka 338/42 (1894) (together with Josef Waldert)
  • Villa Bayer (former residential building) in Karlsbad, Eduard Knoll Street (now ul.Krále Jiřího 20) (1908/09)
  • Elementary school in Karlsbad at today's Hotel Thermal (1883/84, demolished in 1967)
  • Town house in Karlovy Vary
  • Honorary grave of the mayor Johann Peter Knoll in Karlsbad

Gallery of his buildings

  • Hunter's house in Karlsbad

  • City Theater in Karlovy Vary

  • American Embassy in Laibach

  • Hotel Pasteur in Karlovy Vary

  • Former Villa Stadt Bremen in Karlsbad

  • Hotel Esplanade in Karlovy Vary

For more buildings see the List of Buildings in Karlovy Vary .

Web links

Commons : Alfred Bayer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architects Lexicon Vienna ; accessed on July 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Alfred Bayer. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on July 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Karlovarský architect Alfred Bayer (Czech); accessed on July 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wettachova vila, Ljubljana (Slovenian); accessed on July 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1916
Place of death Carlsbad