Franz Fröhlich (architect)

Franz Xaver Fröhlich (born November 30, 1823 in Vienna ; † April 15, 1889 there ) was an Austrian architect .

education and profession

Franz Cheerful attended the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna from 1839 to 1843 and continued his education from 1844 to 1847 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, among others with von Van der Nüll. In 1848 he took part in the competition to build the Neulerchenfeld parish church . In 1851 he started a two-year scholarship for an "art trip", which he extended into the summer of 1854. This scholarship was granted to him by Heinrich Ferstel . It is believed that Fröhlich came to Brno as part of his scholarship , where he was responsible for the construction of the so-called city courtyard from 1853 to 1855. Professionally, Fröhlich was employed as an adjunct at the commercial drawing school of the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna in 1850, after which he worked from 1850 to 1853 as a teacher of linear drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts (elementary drawing and modeling school). As a result, Fröhlich worked as an architect and in 1864 also became a substitute member of the Vienna Building Commission for the revision of the building regulations.

In Vienna, Fröhlich planned some prestigious residential buildings such as the block at Opernring 7-15. For the client of this building project, Anton Ritter von Ölzelt , Fröhlich also designed a burial chapel at the Mauer cemetery in 1876 . One of his most important works is the Creditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe, established in 1885 in downtown Vienna ( Am Hof ). Around 1880 Fröhlich moved to Perchtoldsdorf , where he was a founding member of the Perchtoldsdorf Beautification Association and subsequently became involved in measures to beautify the area and promote tourism. From 1858 he was a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects , from 1860 a member of the Eintracht Association and from 1863 a member of the Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna.

Fröhlich was primarily responsible for the construction of elegant and representative tenement houses, which were built in the course of the development of the Ringstrasse and the city expansion. He relied on elements of the neo-renaissance that was widespread in Vienna at the time , which means that Fröhlich's work can be stylistically classified in the so-called "New Vienna Renaissance", a special variety of the Italian Renaissance.

Private

Grave in Perchtoldsdorf with a bronze angel by Viktor Tilgner

Fröhlich was born the son of the mason foreman Leopold Fröhlich and his wife Anna Maria Müller. He married Wilhelmine Putz (1831–1887) in 1850 and had a daughter and a son in the early 1850s. His daughter Wilhelmine Maria, married Freymuth, lived from 1851 to 1924, his son Julius Johann Franz (1853–1923) was also an architect. Franz Fröhlich died after a long illness at the age of 66 of "brain wasting" in Vienna and was buried at the Perchtoldsdorfer Friedhof .

Works

• "Stadthof" house on Silinger Platz 2 in Brno (1853–1855)
• Creditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe Am Hof ​​in Vienna (1858, competition, 1st prize, destroyed in World War II)
• Rental houses at Opernring 7–15 in Vienna (1861)
• Palais Rohan at Praterstrasse 38 in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (1864)
• Palais Ölzelt at Schottengasse 10 in Vienna's Inner City (1870)
• House at Bellariastraße 10 in Vienna's Inner City (1870–1871)
• Hotel de France at Schottenring 3–5 in Vienna's Inner City (1872)
• Grave chapel of the family of Anton Ritter von Ölzelt at the Mauer cemetery in Vienna- Liesing
• Josefswarte on the rear Föhrenberg (1881)
• Conversion of the community inn "Zum golden Hirschen" into a school at Marktplatz 11 in Perchtoldsdorf (1883–1884)
• Children's preservation facility at Hochstrasse 28 Perchtoldsdorf (1886)

Honourings and prices

• Peinpreis (1845)
• Gundel Prize for Geometry (1845)
• Fügerpreis (1846)
• Rosenbaum Prize (1846)
• Court Prize Golden Medal (1847)
• Honorary Citizen of Perchtoldsdorf (1884)
• Street naming of Fröhlichgasse in Perchtoldsdorf (1894)

Web links

Commons : Franz Fröhlich (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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