Anton Baumgarten

Anton Baumgarten (born October 26, 1820 in Totis , Hungary , † April 5, 1887 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and city architect.

Life

Anton Baumgarten was the son of the bricklayer Anton Baumgartner and his wife Anna Algeyer. Several other name variants have also been passed down for him, such as Baumgartner , Baumgarter and Paumgarten as well as the Hungarian form of his first name, Antal. From 1838 he was in Vienna, where he studied from 1838 to 1840 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Peter von Nobile . Further information on his training is not available. It is believed that he subsequently practiced with a builder; in any case, he obtained the master builder license in 1861.

Anton Baumgarten became a sought-after architect of the Jewish money nobility and the Viennese middle class. In addition to working in Belgrade and Budapest , he was mainly active in Vienna.

Baumgarten had three children from his first marriage. He died of a stroke in the general hospital at the age of 67 and was buried in an urn chapel he built himself on the Helenenfriedhof (Baden) .

Wickenburg Palace (1862)

Opernring 23 (1862)

Schubertring 1 (1865)

Urn chapel at the Helenenfriedhof, Baden (1867)

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Anton Baumgarten had a decisive influence on the Vienna cityscape of the Ringstrasse era, although he is one of those architects who have now been forgotten and are in the shadow of the great Ringstrasse architects. He built mainly elegant and monumental, representative and richly furnished rental houses in the style of the Viennese neo-Renaissance .

• Rental house , Währinger Straße 12, Vienna 9 (1855), replaced by a new building around 1910
• Former Israelitisches Taubmutemeninstitut , Juchgasse 22, Vienna 3 (1857–1858), redesigned in 1962
• Rental house , Löwengasse 2B / Obere Weißgerberstraße 14, Vienna 3 (1859), left part of the facade chipped off
• Rental house , Rudolfsplatz 3 / Heinrichsgasse 6, Vienna 1 (1861)
• Obrenowitsch Palace , Belgrade (around 1861)
• Rental house , Rudolfsplatz 1 / Gonzagagasse 10, Vienna 1 (1861–1862)
• Rent and commercial building , Rudolf Platz 7 / Gonzagagasse 8, Wien 1 (1861), facade cleared
• Former Wickenburg-Palais , Gonzagagasse 1 / Morzinplatz 3 / Salzgries 2, Vienna 1 (1862), with master builder Wilhelm Grohs, under monument protection
• Adolf Pollak house , Opernring 23 / Eschenbachgasse 1, Vienna 1 (1862), a listed building
• Rental house , Gonzagagasse 12 / Werdertorgasse 10, Vienna 1 (1863)
• Rental house , Kärntner Ring 10 / Akademiestraße 9, Vienna 1 (1863–1864)
• Former Todesco house , Kärntner Ring 14 / Dumbastraße 2, Vienna 1 (1863–1865)
• Rental houses , Kolonitzgasse 5–11, Vienna 3 (1863–1867)
• Rental house , Rudolfsplatz 2, Vienna 1 (1864)
• Hotel “Österreichischer Hof” , Fleischmarkt 2, Vienna 1 (1864), completely rebuilt in 1900 by Ludwig Schmidl
• Rental house , Johannesgasse 20–22 / Schubertring 1, Vienna 1 (1865), with Johann Garben
• Rental house , Salztorgasse 2 / Salzgries 4, Vienna 1 (1865), facade cleared
• Urn chapel at the Helenenfriedhof , Steinbruchgasse 14, Baden (1867)
• Rental house , Babenbergerstraße 9 / Getreidemarkt 20, Vienna 1 (1868), structure cleared
• Rental house , Getreidemarkt 11 / Gumpendorfer Straße 2, Vienna 6 (1868)
• Esterhazy Palace , Puskin utca (formerly Esterhazy u.), Budapest 8 (1871)
• Rental house , Schlickgasse 4, Vienna 9 (1871)
• Hotel Continental , Praterstrasse – Taborstrasse, Vienna 2 (1872), not preserved
• House , Philharmonikergasse 6, Vienna 1 (1873), in the Hotel Sacher integrated, from 1874 to 1876 by Wilhelm Fraenkel built
• Rental and commercial building , Petersplatz 4, Vienna 1 (1874–1876)
• Rental house , Maysedergasse 5 / Albertinaplatz 2, Vienna 1 (1875)
• Györy house , Szép utca 4, Budapest (around 1875)
• Rental house , Vereinsgasse 15, Vienna 2 (1881), adaptation
• Rental house , Schiffmühlenstraße 70, Vienna 22 (1881), adaptation
• Riding school and stable , Taborstrasse 76, Vienna 2 (1881), not preserved
• Office and workshop , Führichgasse 3, Vienna 1 (1882)
• Stable and carriage shed , Matthäusgasse 6, Vienna 3 (1882), not preserved
• Rental house , Laudongasse 37, Vienna 8 (1882)
• Magazine building , Zwischenbrücken 139, Vienna 2 (1883), today's address unknown
• Residential building , Turmburggasse / Mollardgasse (no. Unknown), Vienna 6 (around 1885)
• Rental house , Salztorgasse 5 / Gonzagagasse 6, Vienna 1 (no year)

literature

• W. Krause:  Baumgarten, Anton . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Web links

Commons : Anton Baumgarten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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