Franz Gessner

Rental house Operngasse 23-25, Vienna 4

Franz Gessner (born September 15, 1879 in Wallachian Klobouk , Moravia , † May 3, 1975 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Franz Gessner was the younger brother of the architect Hubert Gessner . He attended the State Trade School in Brno before studying with Otto Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1903 to 1906 . Study trips took him to Northern Italy in 1905, to Italy and Spain from 1906 to 1907 and to Germany and Denmark in 1913. In 1906 he had won a state travel grant with the Rome Prize.

Franz Gessner initially worked together with his brother in his studio until 1912. After that he was often active in industrial construction, where he had the company Warchalowski, Eissler & Co. as a major customer. He was also active in residential construction, but was unable to receive any commissions from the City of Vienna in the interwar period. It was not until the 1930s that he built several residential buildings for the Assanierungsfonds in Vienna.

Works

• Austrian industrial works Warchalowski, Eissler & Co. - Wögingergasse 1–13, Vienna 16 (1914/15)
• Storey factory, Sandleitengasse 40 - Vienna 16 (1915/16)
• Austrian Industrial Works Warchalowski, Eissler & Co. - Sandleitengasse 53–55, Vienna 16
• Austria Email - Wilhelminenstraße 91 / Sandleitengasse 15, Vienna 16 (1920 and 1925/26)
• Assembly hall of the J. Warchalowski engine factory - Paulusgasse 3, Vienna 3 (1924)
• Lido - Gmunden, Upper Austria (1927)
• Residential and office building - Petrusgasse 1, Vienna 3 (1927/28)
• Chemical cleaning shop - Jörgerbadgasse 8, Vienna 17 (1929/30)
• Plant of the company Franz Havlicek - Neuerlaa (1932)
• Hairdressing salon Krämmer - Gymnasiumstraße 12, Vienna 19 (1933)
• Rental house Papagenohof - Operngasse 26, Vienna 4 (1936)
• Rental house - Operngasse 23-25, Vienna 4 (1936)
• Rental house - Wattgasse 62, Vienna 17 (1936)
• Rental house - Döblinger Hauptstraße / Radelmayergasse, Vienna 19 (1937)
• Rental house - Felberstraße 122, Vienna 15 (1937)
• Company and office building Frigidaire - Petrusgasse 5, Vienna 3 (1950)

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 523.

Web links

Commons : Franz Gessner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franz Gessner. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Franz Gessner. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)