Ernst Wiesner

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Crematorium in Brno
Today's Morava Palace in Brno
Villa Pick in Prague

Ernst Wiesner (born January 21, 1890 in Malatzka , Slovakia , then Kingdom of Hungary ; † July 15, 1971 in Liverpool ; also Arnošt Wiesner ) was a Czechoslovak modernist architect .

Wiesner studied from 1908 to 1913 at the Technical University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (with Friedrich Ohmann ) in Vienna . After the First World War he worked actively as a freelance architect in the Moravian city of Brno until 1939 . His work was strongly influenced by Adolf Loos and his purist structures with classicist balance and monumentality are considered the best buildings of this era in Brno.

Wiesner emigrated to Great Britain in 1939 , where he belonged to the anti-fascist resistance abroad. After the Second World War he stayed in England. From 1948 to 1950 he was a lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Oxford and until 1960 at the University of Liverpool . In 1969 he received an honorary doctorate from the then Jan Evangelista Purkyně University and now the Masaryk University in Brno.

Works in Brno (selection)

  • 1919–1920: Wooden summer house, Drobného 28
  • 1919–1922: Guttmann house, Údolní (Talgasse, 1952–1990: třída Obránců míru) 66
  • around 1920: Frauenheim, Tvrdého 18
  • 1920–1925: Block of the so-called White House and the Česká banka Union , later Československý rozhlas (Czech Union Bank / Czechoslovak Radio), Mozartova 3 and Beethovenova 4
  • 1924–1926: Villa Münz, Hroznová 19
  • 1925: Villa, Kalvodova 2
  • 1925–1930: City crematorium, Jihlavská 1
  • 1926: Villa Stein, Barvičova 25
  • 1927–1936: Block of the Morava Palace and the Moravian Land Insurance Company, Divadelní 3 and Malinowski Square
  • 1927–1928: Two- family house on the Werkbundsiedlung Nový Dům , Bráfova 109–111
  • 1928–1929: Villa Neumark, Vinařská 38
  • 1929–1930: Villa Stiassny, Hroznová 14
  • 1929–1930: Villa Haas, Lipová 43
  • 1929–1930: Moravian Bank (together with Bohuslav Fuchs ), náměstí Svobody (Freedom Square) 21
  • 1930–1931: arcade house with small apartments of the friendship cooperative , Rybářská 50
  • 1930–1931: Villa Pick in Prague-Smíchov, U Mrázovky 2071/7

literature

  • Arnošt Wiesner, Petr Pelčák, Ivan Wahla, Muzeum města Brna (eds.): Ernst Wiesner (1890-1971) . Obecní dům Brno, Brno 2005, ISBN 80-239-5613-2 .
  • Petr Pelčák, Jan Sapák, Ivan Wahla: Brněnští židovští architekti 1919 - 1939 , Spolek Obecní dům Brno 2000 ( Czech ).
  • Lukeš, Zdeněk: Settling the debt: German-speaking architects in Prague 1900–1938 (Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900–1938). Praha: Fraktály Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. ISBN 80-86627-04-7 . Section Ernst Wiesner, p. 201

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personal data
SURNAME Wiesner, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesner, Arnošt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak modernist architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Malacky
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1971
Place of death Liverpool