Carl Friedrich Gröger

Carl Friedrich Gröger (born June 12, 1823 in Krotendorf near Jägerndorf , Austrian Silesia , † May 9, 1876 in Vienna ) was an Austrian city ​​architect.

Life

Carl Friedrich Gröger was the son of a farmer from Austrian Silesia. He initially received practical training from a master builder or bricklayer and came to Vienna in 1849 at the latest, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts under August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll for a year. There is no news of his life for the following years; possibly he worked in Hungary in the 1850s , since his son Theodor was born there in 1856. In 1861, Gröger obtained the master builder license and became a member of the master builder and mason cooperative. In addition, he is named in 1866 as a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Gröger was married and had two children. He died at the age of 53 and was buried in the Pötzleinsdorfer cemetery .

Act

Not very many buildings by Carl Friedrich Gröger are known. In the 1860s and 1870s he built some high-quality rental houses in the style of early historicism . In addition to buildings based on his own designs, he also worked as an executive builder, for example for Carl Tietz .

• Rental house , Rüdigergasse 7, Vienna 5 (1862)
• former Archduke Carl Ludwig Palace , Favoritenstrasse 7, Vienna 4 (1864), adaptations to the alley wing and construction of a stable building; 1872–1873 by Heinrich von Ferstel conversion and redesign; not received
• Rental house , Ungargasse 26, Vienna 3 (1867)
• Rental house , Nibelungengasse 13, Vienna 1 (1869–1870)
• Rental house , Nibelungengasse 11 / Eschenbachgasse 10, Vienna 1 (1870)
• Rental house , Kaunitzgasse 3–5 / Eggerthgasse 11, Vienna 6 (1874)
• Rental house , Ziegelofengasse 25, Vienna 5 (1874)
• Rental house , Zentagasse 24, Vienna 5 (1875)

Web links

• Carl Friedrich Gröger. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.