Günther Widmann

Günther Widmann (born June 4, 1937 in Bozen as Günther Meraner ; † September 9, 1996 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian architect . His field of activity was residential and industrial buildings as well as village renewal in the Navistal , North Tyrol .

Life

Widmann was born on June 4, 1937 in Bozen, the son of the German teacher Caroline Meraner and the sculptor Hans Plangger . After the mother and son emigrated to Innsbruck in 1938, she married the representative Heinz Widmann, who adopted her son. After the war, Günther Widmann graduated from the building trade school HTL-Ingenieur in Innsbruck and in 1957 studied architecture under Roland Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . After completing his studies in 1961, he worked as an architect in the office of architect Gerhard Garstenauer in Salzburg until he set up his own business in Innsbruck in 1972 and founded the Widmann architectural office. In 1963 he married the architect and later freelance art photographer Irene Widmann, née Hausl, with whom he had a daughter, Claudia Widmann (actress) in 1964, and a son, Clemens Johannes Widmann (architect) in 1967.

His enthusiasm for traveling through European countries, the USA, Egypt, Guatemala, Venezuela and Mexico connected him to his wife Irene. Günther Widmann began taking Hasselblad photography as early as the 1970s , which became a constant companion on his travels. His fondness for jazz and socializing were very important to him. Countless artists such as Anton Christian , Inge Dick , Hellmut Bruch , Nino Malfatti and Monika Posch Pfeifle have been among his friends and companions since he was a student at the academy.

Create

Günther Widmann was shaped in the early years by the influence of his teacher Roland Rainer and by the work in the Garstenauer architecture office in the 1960s. Cubic buildings in the international style with simple shapes determined the architectural language. Single-family houses and one of the first terraced house settlements (Kalkofenweg / Arzl) in Tyrol were built during this time. Working with the Swiss architect Rudolf Olgiati and traveling to Ticino, he came up with a mixture of modern and traditional architecture, which combined the formal language of the Alpine roof shapes with the modern architectural design elements of the 1950s and 1960s. Architect G. Widmann redesigned several hotels and inns in the state capital and became a specialist for conversions in hotels and lodging establishments in Austria.

During his creative period, Widmann realized countless single and multi-family houses in Tyrol and Lower Austria, as well as the Kalkofenweg terrace settlement in Innsbruck-Arzl. The industrial buildings, tool hall Kofler, Fulpmes and locksmith Fritz, Grabenweg, Innsbruck are among the most important industrial buildings of the 1970s and 1980s in Tyrol. Hotel conversions such as Hotel Krone, Hotel Neue-Post, Gasthaus Weißes Rössl, Hotel Weißes Kreuz (all in Innsbruck), as well as Hotel Kaiser in Kitzbühel, Gasthof Stangl in Thaur, Pension Villerspitze in Praxmar and Gasthof Ropferhof in Buchen are among the important hotel redesigns between 1970 and 1990 in North Tyrolean architecture.

Günther Widmann has been in charge of village renewal in Navistal for 15 years and managed village renewal in the Navis. Under his leadership, the Vidum, the Navis parish hall, the kindergarten, the forecourt, as well as numerous farms and the chapels along the streets in the Navis Valley were renovated. In the course of village renewal in the state of Tyrol, new settlements were planned and a village renewal concept was drawn up with the municipality of Navis.

The BORG Innsbruck , Bundes-Oberstufen-Realgymnasium Fallmerayerstraße, was completely renovated by Widmann and subsequently by his son, the architect Clemens Widmann, between 1993 and 1996.

After his death in 1996, the architectural office was taken over by the architect Clemens Widmann.

Works

Kalkofenweg terrace settlement, Innsbruck

Weissteiner House

Schmarda House, Innsbruck-Arzl

• 1972 Fritz industrial hall, Grabenweg, Innsbruck
• 1972–1974 residential buildings in Laschitz, Amort-Köchler, Widmann-Moosbacher, Sadrachstrasse 5–9, Innsbruck
• 1972–1974 Tschoner house, Birgitz
• 1974 Zeh residential building, Blutgasse 2, Tulln
• 1973–1975 Kalkofenweg terrace house settlement, Innsbruck-Arzl
• 1975–1980 renovation of the Bürgerbräu, Innsbruck
• 1974 Stadtcafe, Innsbruck
• 1975 House in Orntern, Lans
• 1976 Gasthof Ropferhof, Buchen
• 1976–1979 Schuhhaus Humanic, Wienerstraße 13, Tulln
• 1977–1978 Humanic shoe store, Maria-Theresienstrasse Innsbruck
• 1975–1978 Hotel Neue Post, Hotel Weißes Kreuz, Innsbruck
• 1979 Interbau-Völs terraced houses
• 1980 Sport Wolf shop, Andreas-Hoferstraße, Innsbruck
• 1981–1982 Gasthof Perchtoldshof, Innsbruck
• 1982 Wallner house, Stams
• 1982 Hotel Veronika, Seefeld
• 1983 Pension Waldheim, Steinach
• 1981–1983 residential and commercial building at Leopoldstrasse 40, Innsbruck
• 1983–1986 Hetsch house, Hauptstrasse 15, Tulln
• 1984 Hotel Kaiser, Kitzbühel
• 1984 Pension Villerspitze, Praxmar
• 1986 Weissteiner house, Schneeburggasse, Innsbruck
• 1988 Restaurant Henschelhof, Innsbruck
• 1981–1985 Sporthaus Witting, Maria-Theresienstrasse, Innsbruck
• 1984 Delka shoe store, Museumstrasse, Innsbruck
• 1985 Cafe 44, Maria-Theresienstraße, Innsbruck
• 1973–1987 Hotel Goldene Krone, Innsbruck
• 1985–1993 Heidecker house, Zeh house, Tulln
• 1982–1885 Kofler factory, Fulmes
• 1986–1990 Schnellmanngasse residential complex, Innsbruck-Arzl
• 1988 Garconing plant Sillhöfe 8, Innsbruck
• 1987 Weber residential complex, Weingartenstrasse Innsbruck
• 1988 Spörr farmhouse
• 1989–1993 Gasthof Hirschen, Göstling
• 1989–1993 residential building at Riedgasse 1, Innsbruck-Hötting
• 1990–1995 Village renovation Navis
• 1990 Schmarda house, Eggenwaldweg, Innsbruck-Arzl
• 1990 Oberbank, Tulln
• 1990 Cafe Uni-3, Universitätsstrasse 3, Innsbruck
• 1990–1995 Tulln tennis club
• 1991–1993 old Navis parish hall
• 1992 Cafe Schipflinger, Kiebachgasse, Innsbruck old town
• 1992–1994 Extension of the Bernd Zeh residential building, Blutgasse 1, Tulln
• 1992 Jenbach sunny slope settlement
• 1993 Renovation at Schlossergasse 13, Innsbruck old town
• 1993–1996 General renovation of the BORG, Bundes-Oberstufen-Realgymnasium Fallmerayerstraße, Innsbruck

literature

• Village renewal in the state of Tyrol. Office for Village Renewal, Innsbruck 1995.