Christian Ulrich

This article is about the architect Christian Ulrich. For a scientist with a similar name, see Christian Ullrich .

Teylers Museum in Haarlem (1878)

Grain elevator in Budapest (plan from 1880)

Industrial Palace in Budapest (1885)

House Tuchlauben 1, Vienna 1 (1901)

Christian Ulrich (born April 27, 1836 in Vienna ; † January 22, 1909 there ) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and engineer .

Life

Christian Ulrich was the son of a mirror manufacturer. After finishing school he attended the Polytechnic and in 1855 studied astronomy at the University of Vienna . This was followed by a visit to the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe , before he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Roesner , Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg around 1860 . Study trips took him to France , Belgium and Italy . From about 1865 to 1885 Ulrich worked as an architect in Vienna, where he worked with Wilhelm von Flattich from 1879 to 1885 . In addition, he ran his parents' mirror factory from 1868 onwards.

In the years 1885 to 1892 Ulrich worked extremely successfully in Hungary , so that he also accepted Hungarian citizenship and lived in Budapest . In recognition of his work there, he was awarded the Imperial Franz Joseph Order .

From 1892 Ulrich worked as an architect again in Vienna. In 1896 he was appointed professor at the Technical University , where he held the chair for utility and railway engineering until 1907. 1899–1900 he was also the rector of the university. In 1905 Ulrich married at an advanced age, his marriage remained childless.

plant

Ulrich's special achievement lies in his connection between architecture and engineering. Ulrich made the most significant achievements in this area in Budapest, where he built the glass and iron structure of the large industrial palace or, previously, the grain elevator as part of the national exhibition. For the latter, he had invented the so-called Ulrich System and had it patented, a technical pioneering achievement.

In the late Viennese years in particular, Ulrich also built representative houses and banks in the neo-baroque style. Through his teaching activities at the Technical University, Ulrich also had an influence on the next generation of civil engineers and architects.

• Parliament Building , Bucharest (1878)
• Teylers Museum , Haarlem (1878)
• various bank buildings and private buildings in Vienna (1879–1885), together with Wilhelm von Flattich
• Grain Elevator , Budapest (1883), destroyed in 1948
• Industrial Palace of the National Exhibition , Budapest (1885), destroyed in 1947
• Bosnian Pavilion , National Exhibition Budapest (1885)
• Ostffy Palace , Erzsébet körút 28, Budapest (1885)
• various warehouses and industrial plants in Hungary and Northern Italy (1885-1892)
• Escompte Bank , Fővám tér 13-15, Budapest (1887)
• Ministry of Commerce , Budapest (around 1890)
• Palais Torda , formerly Franzensring, Budapest (around 1890)
• Ulrich residential building , formerly Zollamtsring, Budapest (around 1890)
• Castle in Kunhalom (around 1890)
• Palace of the Vienna Commercial Association , Johannesgasse 4, Vienna 1 (1892–1893) 1st prize, together with Rudolf Dick
• Rental house , Westbahnstraße 5, Vienna 7 (1894) (executed by Moritz and Josef Sturany)
• Heightened the main building of the Technical University , Karlsplatz 12-13, Vienna 4 (1898) together with Karl Mayreder
• Rental house , Tuchlauben 1 / Naglergasse 2, Vienna 1 (1901)
• Living u. Commercial building , Seidengasse 13 (Zieglergasse 26A), Vienna 7 (1903)
• Electrotechnical Institute of the Vienna University of Technology , Gusshausstraße 25, Vienna 4 (1902–1904) together with Carl Hochenegg

In addition, Ulrich carried out numerous interior fittings and the equipping of courtyard saloon cars for the railroad.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ulrich, Christian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 49th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1884, p. 18 ( digitized version ).
• Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Jahre Technische Universität Wien, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 80 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

Commons : Christian Ulrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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