Ferdinand Glaser (architect)

Ferdinand Glaser (born May 30, 1880 in Seestadtl , Bohemia , † September 27, 1961 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect, primarily of the late Classicist reform style .

Life

Ferdinand Glaser was the son of a master mason in the northern Bohemian Seestadtl, mainly inhabited by German speakers. He attended the State Trade School in Pilsen and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1901 to 1905 . He was then an associate student at the Technical University in Vienna from 1906 to 1907.

After completing his studies, he took part in competitions and was able to realize his first buildings. In 1909 he became a member of the Wiener Bauhütte and in 1910 an architect in the Ministry of Public Works . Around 1912 he entered into a working group with Ludwig Kloos, and from around 1914 one with Rudolf Eisler . With this he established himself as the architect of the Austrian National Bank , whose technical supervisor he became.

In 1919 Glaser became a member of the Central Association of Architects in Austria , in 1926 he received the license to civil engineer and from then on belonged to the Vienna Chamber of Engineers and Architects. After a last known building project in the early 1930s, no further information about glaziers is available. He was buried in the Neustift cemetery in 1961 .

Villa Miller, Vienna 13 (1913–1916)

Austrian National Bank, Innsbruck (1930)

plant

Glazer's villas and residential buildings before the First World War are mostly designed to have a picturesque effect and show closeness to the local style. After the First World War, in a joint venture with Rudolf Eisler, the buildings are more objective, with a moderate neoclassical vocabulary of forms and radiate simple elegance.

• 1908: Teacher Training College Oberhollabrunn (today Hollabrunn ), Lower Austria (competition, 2nd prize)
• 1911: Villa , Glanzinggasse 28, Vienna 19
• 1912–1913: residential buildings , Bastiengasse 40 / Scheibenbergstrasse 39 and 37, Vienna 18 (with Kloos)
• 1913–1916: Villa Miller , Schweizertalstrasse 36, Vienna 13 (with Ludwig Kloos, today Federal Office for Agricultural Economics )
• 1918–1925: Austrian National Bank , Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, Vienna 9 (with Rudolf Eisler)
• 1923: Bernhard Altmann wool goods factory , Siebenbrunnengasse 19–21, Vienna 5 (extension, with Rudolf Eisler)
• 1925: Austrian National Bank , Anton Schneiderstraße 12, Bregenz (with Rudolf Eisler)
• 1928–1929: Austrian National Bank , Esterhazyplatz 2, Eisenstadt (with Rudolf Eisler)
• 1930: Austrian National Bank , Adamgasse 2, Innsbruck (with Rudolf Eisler)
• 1930–1931: Housing complex for employees of the Austrian National Bank , Hockegasse 55–57, Vienna 18 (with Rudolf Eisler)

literature

• The Austrian National Bank and other works by the architects ZV F. Glaser and R. Eisler (Ferdinand Glaser and Rudolf Eisler ). Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna before 1928.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Glaser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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