Friedrich August von Stache

Friedrich August Ritter von Stache, drawn by Michael Stohl , Rome 1844

Friedrich August von Stache, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage

Friedrich August Ritter von Stache (born July 30, 1814 in Vienna , † June 17, 1895 in Graz ) was an Austrian architect of historicism .

Life

Stache attended the Polytechnic and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He then traveled to Italy from 1836 to 1839. Back in Vienna, Stache became the architect of Prince Kinsky . One of his earliest works was the conversion of the Seitzerhof (1838–40), for which he designed a shopping arcade. A mosaic copy of the painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in the Minoritenkirche in Vienna was installed by Stache. In 1858, following a tender, he submitted an urban expansion plan for Vienna, for which he received first prize. He made particular merits in founding the Künstlerhaus, of which he was president in 1862/63 and of which he became honorary member in 1866. He campaigned for a separate building for the Künstlerhausgesellschaft. In 1865 Stache built the old wholesale market hall at Vorderen Zollamtsstrasse 17. For health reasons, Stache went to Graz in 1868, where he stayed until the end of his life.

Stache was the uncle of the famous architect Heinrich von Ferstel . At the beginning he worked in his studio. Together they designed a competing project for the Breitenfeld Church (1852) and executed the St. Mary's altar for the St. Barbara Chapel in St. Stephen's Cathedral .

Stache was a senior building officer. He received the Franz Joseph Order and the Order of the Iron Crown . In 1898 the Stachegasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after him.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stache, Friedrich August Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 308–312 ( digitized version ).
• Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 5 . Kremayer & Scheriau, Vienna 1997.
• W. Aichelburg:  Stache Friedrich August von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 65 f. (Direct links on p. 65 , p. 66 ).

Web links

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• Friedrich August Stache. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Entry in Müller's Biographical Artist Lexicon. Leipzig 1882