Friedrich Ohmann

Friedrich Ohmann, 1920

Grave of Friedrich Ohmann in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Friedrich Ohmann (born December 21, 1858 in Lemberg , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , † April 6, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Friedrich Ohmann was born in Lemberg in 1858 as the son of a building councilor . In 1877 he began studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology . His teachers included Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König . In order to deepen his artistic training, he then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts with Friedrich von Schmidt .

From 1889 to 1899 he worked as a professor of decorative architecture at the School of Applied Arts in Prague and carried out many restoration projects in this city. In 1898, together with Josef Hackhofer , he designed all of the buildings and bridges in the area of ​​the Vienna river regulation in Vienna (see Vienna Vienna river bridges ) and returned to Vienna on the occasion of this commission.

From 1899–1907 he was the artistic director of the Hofburg building ( Neue Burg ) in Vienna. The projects he carried out include the new palm house in the Burggarten and the Empress Elisabeth monument in the Volksgarten (statue by Hans Bitterlich ).

From 1904 on he was head of the master class for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Ohmann's roots lie in late historicism . His profound knowledge of historical architectural styles served as the basis of his work. In his Prague years he was the protagonist of a moderate Art Nouveau and later, above all, a pioneer of neo-baroque . It is not uncommon for his work to show a mixture of these two styles, for example in the palm house in Vienna's Burggarten.

In the summer of 1918 Ohmann presented the first drafts for a large Kaiser Franz Josef monument, which he believed should be built in front of the Vienna Votive Church in spatial connection with it. His project was not pursued after the end of the war in autumn 1918.

His grave, dedicated by the Viennese city administration , is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 33E, row 3, grave 32); His son-in-law, the architect Hans Pfann (1890–1973), was also buried here. In 1938 the Ohmanngasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Work (selection)

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1890	Residential house "To the golden cross"	Prague, Havel market / Praha, Havelska, CZ coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: Not the building under the "golden cross"
		1891	Imperial pavilion for exhibition in Prague / Praha	CZ	destroyed
		1891-1892	Palais Valtera Wikidata	Voršilská 140/12, Nové Město, Prague, Czech Republic Location
		1895	Residential house "To the 3 white rams"	Prague, Obstgasse / Praha, 28. rijuna, CZ coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: with Guido Belski
		1895	Office building for Assicurazione Generali Wikidata	Prague location	Note: Competition 1st prize
		1895	Hall for the princely Clarysche garden shed	Teplice, Bohemia / Teplice, CZ	draft
		1896	German casino	Prague / Praha, CZ coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: Competition 1st prize
		1896	Reconstruction of the Zlonitz parish church	Bohemia / Zlonic, CZ coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: Zlonice?
		1896-1897	House "Storchenhaus" Wikidata	Prague, Old Town Square / Praha, Staromestske nam., CZ location	Note: with Rudolph Krieghammer
		1896-1897	"Zum Schwarzen Adler" residential and commercial building Wikidata	Prague, fruit market / Praha, Ovocny trh, CZ location	Note: with Guido Belsky
		1897-1898	north boehm. Kunstgewerbemuseum Reichenberg Wikidata	Bohemia / Liberec, CZ location	Note: Competition 1st prize
		1897-1898	Café Corso	Na Příkopě 988/31, Prague / Praha, CZ location
		1898	Conversion of the Variété theater	Prague / Praha, CZ coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: with Rudolph Krieghammer
		1898	Restoration of the parish church of Prestitz Wikidata	Přeštice, Czech Republic location	Note: Přeštice
		1898	War hammer tomb	Zentralfriedhof, Vienna 11 coordinates are missing! Help.
		1898-1900	Wenceslas Monument Wikidata	Prague, Wenceslas Square / Praha, Vaclavske nam., CZ location	Note: with sculptor Josef Myslbeck. In other sources assigned to Alois Dryák. There is evidence of lively correspondence with Myslbeck on this subject.
		1898-1901	Villa Schopp BDA-ID:  41572 Wikidata	Vienna 13, Gloriettegasse 21 Location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1898-1901	Chapel of the Ursuline monastery Kuttenberg Wikidata	Bohemia / Kutna Hora, Czech Republic Location
		1898-1901	Museum of Arts and Crafts Wikidata	Magdeburg, Kaiserstraße location	Note: with August Kirstein
		1899	Conversions New Castle BDA-ID:  13767 Wikidata	Vienna location	Note: completion of Emil von Förster's plans
		1899-1901	Hietzinger Bridge, Kaiser Franz Josef Bridge		destroyed Note: with Josef Hackhofer. The bronze eagles are preserved from the original bridge
		1899-1901	Radetzky Bridge BDA-ID:  109551 Wikidata	Location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1899-1901	Kleine Marxerbrücke BDA-ID:  109554 Wikidata	Location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1899-1901	Schönbrunn Bridge	Location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1899-1901	Stubenbrücke BDA-ID:  97847 Wikidata	Location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1899-1902	Hotel Central Wikidata	Prague, Hybernergasse 17 / Praha, CZ location
		1900	Mayerweck tomb	Zentralfriedhof, Vienna 11 coordinates are missing! Help.
		1900-1901	Museum Carnuntinum BDA-ID:  11077 Wikidata	Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Badgasse 42, Lower Austria location	Note: with August Kirstein
		1901-1902	Empress Elisabeth monument BDA-ID:  20134 Wikidata	Vienna 1, Volksgarten location	Note: with Hans Bitterlich
		1901-1903	Building of the Wienfluss supervisory body BDA-ID:  25043 Wikidata	Vienna 14, Hauptstrasse 3 location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1901-1903	Wikidata milk drinking hall	Vienna 3, Stadtpark location	changed Note: with Josef Hackhofer
			Wikidata weather station	Vienna 3, Stadtpark location
		1901-1906	Palm House BDA-ID:  13768 Wikidata	Vienna 1, Burggarten location
		1902-1903	Wien river portal and vault Wikidata	Vienna 3, Johannesgasse location	Note: with Josef Hackhofer
		1904-1925	Country house wreath	Wartenstein / Raach a.Hochgebirge No. 4, Lower Austria location	Note: 1916–1918 remodeling by Oskar Strnad; 1922–1925 further renovations by Friedrich Ohmann. Wartenstein Castle?
		1906-1920	Split Wikidata Archaeological Museum	Coastal land / Split, HR location	Note: with A. Kirstein
		1907	School Garsten	Upper Austria	Draft Note: The draft does not show any of the existing buildings in Garsten
		1909	Schiller Monument Wikidata	Karlsbad, Bohemia / Karlovy vary, Czech Republic Location
		1910	House "Drei Mohren"	Tržiště 377/25, Karlsbad, Bohemia / Karlovy vary, CZ Location
		1910-1912	Castle fountain colonnades Wikidata	Tržiště, Karlsbad, Bohemia / Karlovy Vary, CZ location	Note: competition, one of the 3 same prizes
		1911-1912	former painting academy Delug BDA-ID:  41931 Wikidata	Vienna 19, Himmelstrasse 30 location	Note: used privately today
		1911-1913	House Dr. Zipser	Grado, Italy	destroyed
		1912	Villa Ohmann BDA-ID:  31781 Wikidata	Grossau b. Bad Vöslau, Anton Krenn-Straße 8, Lower Austria location
		1912	Fountain	Gmunden, Upper Austria	destroyed Note: At the Rathausplatz and in a square shape. The figure of a salt carrier by Anton Gerhard is on a central column. Dismantled as early as 1926.
		1912	Conversion of the zwieback department store BDA-ID:  27546 Wikidata	Vienna 1, Kärntner Straße 13–15 location	Note: Today Cafe Sluka
		1912-1913	Villa Kramar Wikidata	Prague / Praha, CZ location
		1912-1914	Facade Palais Kranz Wikidata	Vienna 9, Liechtensteinstrasse 53–55 Location
		1913	Altar structure BDA-ID:  53080 Wikidata	Parish church Aggsbach-Dorf, Lower Austria location
		1913-1914	Kurhaus Wikidata	Meran, Tirol / Merano, Italy Location
		1914-1916	Villa Regenstreif BDA-ID:  41864 Wikidata	Vienna 18, Starkfriedgasse 15 Location	destroyed Note: burned down

literature

• Reinhard Pühringer: Friedrich Ohmann (1858–1927), protagonist of the »genius loci«, on tradition and new beginnings from early work to the major projects in Vienna (1884–1906 / 07). Dissertation at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, 2002.
• Reinhard Pühringer:  Ohmann, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 492 f. ( Digitized version ).
• R. Schachel:  Ohmann Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 220.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 446 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Ohmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Ohmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Friedrich Ohmann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Friedrich Ohmann - an architect between the disciplines. First foundation, accessed on February 16, 2011 . 
• Friedrich Ohmann. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Excerpt from the daily newspaper “ Daily Rundschau” of July 18, 1918 on the website of the Vienna Library in the City Hall

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