Carl von Hasenauer

Carl von Hasenauer, bust in the KHM

Grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Carl Freiherr von Hasenauer (born July 20, 1833 in Vienna ; † January 4, 1894 ibid) was an important Austrian architect of historicism in Vienna, especially the Vienna Ringstrasse . He created monumental buildings in an effective neo-baroque style . During his lifetime he was also called the "building Makart ".

biography

Carl Hasenauer was a student of August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll . In 1873 he was raised to the baron status.

Hasenauer became chief architect of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873. With Gottfried Semper , he designed the court building complex with the Art History Museum and the Natural History Museum (1871-1891), the Burgtheater (1874-1888, floor plan by Semper, facade design by Hasenauer), the Semperdepot and the Neue Hofburg (1881–1894, completed 1913), which, like the residential buildings he designed, Palais Lützow (1870) and Hermesvilla (1882–1886), decorated with interior decorations in the Makart style . Semper was involved in the execution of the buildings until 1876. After the rift with his former business partner Semper, Hasenauer managed the construction of the courtyard buildings alone.

Hasenauer is characterized by a very decorative style (in the spirit of Semper) and his talent for staging. He strove to merge all genres of art into a total work of art , without focusing on architecture alone.

Disputes about the authorship of certain works between the followers of Semper and Hasenauer have not been fully resolved to this day, but are now only on a factual level. The magnificent buildings by the two architects on Vienna's Ringstrasse have now become Vienna's landmarks.

Hasenauer rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 32 A, number 33). In 1894 the Hasenauerstraße in Vienna- Währing (18th district) and Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

literature

• Hasenauer, Karl Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 199 f. (Direct links on p. 199 , p. 200 ).
• Julius Leisching :  Hasenauer, Carl Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 47-51.
• Erwin Neumann:  Hasenauer, Carl Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 24 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Carl von Hasenauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Carl von Hasenauer in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Carl von Hasenauer in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp image)
• Works by Carl von Hasenauer in the Albertina (Vienna)
• Carl Freiherr von Hasenauer on planet-vienna.com