Ferdinand von Fellner-Feldegg

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Ferdinand Fellner Ritter von Feldegg (born March 10, 1855 in Piacenza , † December 8, 1936 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and author .

Life

In 1855 von Fellner-Feldegg was born in Piacenza, Italy, to a family of German descent who had been knighted in 1623. From 1873 to 1879 von Fellner-Feldegg studied architecture at the Technical University in Prague, from 1880 to 1883 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Theophil Hansen . In the following two years he worked in his teacher's studio. From 1884 he took up a position as a teacher for structural engineering at the Vienna State Trade School. Between 1895 and 1919 he was a professor there. Fellner-Feldegg married in 1888 and had two children in 1891 and 1905.

From 1895 to 1908 he worked as an editor for the magazine "Der Architekt". In 1909 he became editor of the “Mitteilungen der Zentralvereinigung Österreichischer Architekten” (Central Association of Austrian Architects), but in the following year he switched to the Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung (later: Österreichische Bauzeitung) as editor-in-chief until it was closed in 1919. From 1919 he was an assistant teacher for special courses at the Vienna State Trade School and, between 1925 and 1927, editor of “Eros”, a magazine for artistic eroticism. In 1930 he was appointed to the government council.

meaning

Von Fellner-Feldegg was only active as an architect in the 1890s. He saw himself primarily as a teacher and specialist author. As a journalist he represented the modern age and offered the Viennese architects a platform. He was best known for his theoretical articles and his journalistic work for architecture magazines. In addition to architectural contributions and philosophical-psychological essays on the subject of sexual psychology, Fellner-Feldegg also wrote a few short stories.

Awards

  • 1913: Prize from Ferdinand Fellner jun. Foundation, endowment
  • 1893: Knight's Cross of the Danish Order of Dannebrog
  • Anniversary commemorative medal
  • Lower Austrian State Author Award

Works

Fellner-Feldegg realized only a few buildings, including two residential buildings in Vienna and the grave chapel of the Schmeykal family in Böhmisch-Leipa .

Publications (selection)

  • The beauty in sex life: 12 sexual aesthetics. Considerations . Frisch & Co., Vienna, Leipzig, 1913
  • Paradoxes in sex life: 12 sex crit. Considerations . Frisch & Co., Vienna, Leipzig, 1913
  • Spirit and morals in sex life: 12 sexual psycholog. Considerations . Frisch & Co., Vienna, Leipzig, 1913
  • Friedrich Ohmann's designs and completed buildings . Schroll Verlag, Vienna, 1914
  • Salzburg: an artistic cityscape . Schroll Verlag, Vienna, 1915
  • Leopold Bauer, the artist and his work . Schroll Verlag, Vienna, 1918
  • Memories and Confessions of an Erotic: A Psychoanalytic Study . Frisch & Co., Vienna, Leipzig, 1922
  • Erotic songs and dialogues . Frisch & Co. Verlag, Vienna, 1924

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personal data
SURNAME Fellner-Feldegg, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellner von Feldegg, Ferdinand; Fellner-Feldegg, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Piacenza
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1936
Place of death Vienna