Alois Pichl

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Alois Pichl (* 1782 in Milan ; † 19 May 1856 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect.

He was an important representative of romanticism . His buildings, some of them classicist , some of them medieval and old German-inspired, were mostly cubic and often tending to be massive. He worked mainly in Northern Italy, Vienna and Hungary for members of the House of Habsburg and the high aristocracy.

family

Pichl's father, Wenzel Pichl (1741–1805), was a violinist, composer and court music director at the Milanese court of Ferdinand Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen , the founder of the House of Austria-Este . His mother, Katharina, née Somogy de Koloszvar, came from a wealthy Hungarian family. His brother, Ferdinand Pichl (1775–1826), was also an architect.

Pichl married Maria Anna Böhm (* around 1785, † 1856) in 1809 and had two daughters.

Life

Grave of Alois Pichl in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof

Pichl began studying architecture in Italy and probably finished it around 1802 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . In 1802 the Academy awarded him the first Gundel Prize in the architecture class.

In 1803 he became an architect for the Archduke and Archduke Ferdinand Karl and Maria Beatrix, who were now in Vienna . From 1812 Pichl was mainly active in Hungary, among other things he built the Kistapolcsány Castle in today's Topoľčianky (1818-1825) for his patron János Count von Keglevich de Buzin (1786-1856 ). In Vienna he created a. a. the Palais Modena (1811–1814), the building of the “ First Austrian Spar-Casse ” (1834–1835) and the new building of the Lower Austrian country house (1837–1839).

Pichl was a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and was buried at the St. Marxer Friedhof . In 1962, Pichlgasse in the 22nd district was named after him.

literature

Web links

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annotation

  1. ↑ In the ÖBL as Pichl, Alois Ludwig (Luigi) listed , whereby Felix Czeike defines this as an "erroneous derivation via Louis ( Luigi ) to Ludwig".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Bamberger , Franz Maier-Bruck : Austria Lexicon in two volumes . Ed .: Karl Gutkas. Publishing association Österreich-Lexikon-Brandstätter-Hölzl, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-9500438-0-2 . Volume 2, page 195 (Online: Entry on Alois Pichl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ))
  2. ↑ a b c d Alois Pichl. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  3. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volumes 1–5 [and supplementary volume], Kremayr & Scheriau , Vienna 1992–2004, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 / ISBN 3-218-00544-2 / ISBN 3-218-00545-0 / ISBN 3-218- 00546-9 / ISBN 3-218-00547-7 / ISBN 978-3-218-00741-2 (supplementary volume 2004).
  4. ↑ a b c Alois Pichl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ^ G. Rizzi:  Pichl, Alois Ludwig (Luigi) (1782-1856), architect. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 51.
  6. ^ Pichlgasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Pichl, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichl, Luigi; Pichl, Alois Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1856
Place of death Vienna