Franz Polzer (architect)

Franz Polzer (born October 4, 1875 in Dielhau / Silesia ; † June 6, 1930 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian architect and master builder, artist and landscape architect.

Career

Polzer grew up as the son of a Brno customs officer. After compulsory school he attended the State Trade School in Brno. He was one of eight 8th grade students from 1901 to 1904 of Otto Wagner at the Vienna Academy of the Arts and, as a graduate of the Wagner School, was largely responsible for the implementation and dissemination of the basic ideas of modernism in architecture, and especially in landscape architecture.

From 1907 to 1912 he was a member of the Hagenbund . In 1908 he participated in the 25th Hagenbund exhibition, the 'Kaiser Huldigungs exhibition' 60th Jubilee of Emperor I. Franz Joseph , with. He created designs for residential houses in Hermannstadt (Sibiu) in: the architect XIII (1907) and a design for an educational establishment for modern economies in Vienna in: Wagner School (1902/03 and 1903/04)

As an architect he worked partly in Graz until 1911 . From 1920 he worked for Klosterneuburg Abbey as a master builder. From 1911 to 1921 he was a member of the Klosterneuburg Association of Local Artists. During this time he took part in the 2nd to 4th exhibition with his own works. He created drafts for the design of the town hall in Klosterneuburg and was responsible for planning the Aspangbahn. In 1925 he designed a tribute picture for the patron of the local artists' association. On January 30, 1926, he was given the license to work as a civilian architect.

As a landscape architect, he was responsible for three projects: As an early work, he designed the St. Josef cottage complex in the Kroisbachtale in Graz. With 104 parcels, it was the largest garden city in the monarchy in 1906. He self-published the drafts of his project as objects for senior civil servants and the military. A natural facility with good traffic connections was the order of the day for Polzer. His most famous work today is the lido in Klosterneuburg in 1920. His models were the "baths on the Adriatic and the Mediterranean, which have a pronounced beach life". With up to 12,000 visitors on weekends, beach life soon developed in the interwar period. In 100 years the number will probably add up to more than 10 million visitors to the Klosterneuburg lido.

The Freisingerhof on Agnesstrasse in Klosterneuburg is a late work by Franz Polzer. The genius loci of the object was decisive for its selection and implementation. For Franz Polzer, the spirit and the special features of the place are very important for a garden. In Agnesstrasse, both the old Roman road system and the new road system from 1511 cross at this point. After the property was cremated by the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna in 1683, the Freising Prince-Bishop built a grape harvesting yard in 1697 as a branch of the Vienna Freising Courtyard on Graben. In 1777 the prince-bishop sold both objects in view of the deteriorating economic conditions. In 1803 the Freising Papal State was dissolved in the course of secularization and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising was established. A garden should be a synthesis of the genius loci and the future needs of the residents.

Exhibitions

• 1911: 2nd exhibition: Project of the church in Kierling, facades, floor plan, perspectives; Imperial Institute for Maternal and Infant Care in Vienna-Glanzing, facades and floor plans; Sketches
• 1914: III. Exhibition: Palais Mauthner von Markhof in Floridsdorf: main view, garden view, vestibule, portal detail, staircase, main staircase, view into the living room, service wing, boxes, catholic club house
• 1917: 4th exhibition: draft of the invitation, views of the Palais Mauthner-Markhof in Floridsdorf.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hagenbund and his artists, Vienna 1900–1938 . Vienna 2016, p. 223
2. ↑ Veronika Pfaffel: 100 Years Association of Local Artists, Klosterneuburg Artists Association . In: Klosterneuburg 2008 (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition in the city museum .
3. ↑ Franz Polzer, Cottage plant St. Joseph in Kroisbachtale in Graz, self-published, Vienna 1906
4. ↑ Caroline Jäger-Klein, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: The architecture of the Klosterneuburg beach baths, 1908 . In: Stadtgemeinde Klosterneuburg (ed.): Klosterneuburg, history and culture .
5. ↑ Isabella Marboe: Revival of the Riviera on the Danube in: Wiener Zeitung of August 11, 2011
6. ↑ Karl Holubar: From Rebstock and Riesenfaß . Ed .: Klosterneuburg 1994, p. 60.