Franz Wipplinger (architect)
Franz Wipplinger (born August 4, 1760 in Oberhautzental ; † May 29, 1812 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect . He still belonged to the generation in which the function of architect and builder coincided.
Life
Wipplinger, the son of a winemaker , completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and worked in Vienna and Lower Austria from the 1780s . In 1794 he was accepted into the Viennese master builders guild. He primarily built residential and commercial buildings in Vienna. He realized the post office in Melk (1792) and the one in Purkersdorf (1796) as well as the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Georg in Vienna (1803).
Wipplinger married the daughter of a court stone mason and had five children with her, with his youngest son Franz becoming a renowned landscape painter who was included in the biographical lexicon of the Austrian Empire .
literature
- Renate Wagner-Rieger: The Viennese town house of the baroque and classicism . Vienna: Hollinek 1957 (Österreichische Heimat, 20), p. 325 f. (List of buildings)
Web links
- Franz Wipplinger. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wipplinger, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhautzental |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1812 |
| Place of death | Vienna |