Alois Schumacher

Alois Schumacher , also a shoemaker , (* January 7, 1838 in Roßbruck near St. Martin in Lower Austria; † March 11, 1910 in Hinterbrühl in Lower Austria) was an important Austrian city architect.

Life

Villa Alois Schumacher in Baden near Vienna , Helenenstrasse 49, garden facade. Builder: Friedrich Schachner . Year of construction: 1889/90. - From: Allgemeine Bauzeitung , 1892

After an apprenticeship as a mason in Budweis , he attended the technical trade school in Vienna from 1856. He completed his practice in the architectural office Romano & Schwendenwein . In the period from 1872 to 1903 he was a self-employed master builder, whereby in 1874 he obtained the concession as a city master builder in Vienna. Soon he became one of the most important builders of the Ringstrasse era . He built more than 300 structures, especially for the public sector, such as gas works, water works and many other municipal structures. In cooperation with then renowned architects such as Ferdinand Fellner the Elder. J. or Hermann Helmer , he also had a share in the creation of buildings, landmarks and landmarks that still exist today .

In 1891 he became a member of the state examination commission at the Technical University in Vienna. After his career, he retired from professional life in 1903 as a result of a stroke and lived in his villa in Hinterbrühl (today's administration building of the SOS Children's Village), Schumachergasse 2, where he also died in 1910. His tomb in the Hinterbrühl cemetery, occupied on March 13, 1910, was created by the sculptor Josef Kassin .

Alois Schumacher's widow, Henriette, died on April 12, 1921, daughter Paula Bachhofer on April 6, 1937.

Buildings (selection)

• 1887–1889: Palais Vrints zu Falkenstein with Ludwig Richter in Vienna, today's Greek embassy
• 1898–1899: Favoriten water tower in Vienna
• 1889: German Volkstheater with Fellner & Helmer in Vienna
• 1896–1899: Gasometer in Vienna
• 1899: Factory hall in Vienna 22, Dr. Otto Neurath-Strasse, for the Berliner Union-Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft
• 1900: Dorotheum
• 1901–1904: Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy in Mödling

Picture gallery

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  Grave in the Hinterbrühl

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  Gasometer in Simmering (1896–1899)

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  Factory hall in Hirschstetten (1899)

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  Water tower in Favoriten (1898–1899)

Awards

• In 1901 he became a knight of the Franz Joseph Order

literature

• Ch. Gruber:  Schumacher, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 358.

Web links

Commons : Alois Schumacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alois Schumacher. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) † Alois Schumacher. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 16366/1910, March 15, 1910, p. 1, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ ( Part :) (...) City Architect Alois Schumacher (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16363/1910, March 12, 1910, p. 26, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .