Gustav Wiedermann

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Architect Gustav Wiedermann

Gustav Wiedermann (born August 24, 1850 in Franzensbad ( Františkovy Lázně ); † February 11, 1914 ibid) was a German-Bohemian architect of romantic historicism , in particular of the West Bohemian spa architecture around 1900.

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Gustav Wiedermann was the son of the architect Karl Wiedermann (1815– around 1875). After studying architecture in Prague , Graz and Munich , he returned to his hometown Franzensbad, where he worked on his father's building projects from 1873. These buildings with the characteristic yellow and white imperial style have shaped the unmistakable appearance of the entire center of the spa town. Its architectural style can be described as romantic historicism, in which elements of neo-renaissance , eclecticism and late neoclassicism are mixed together.

For his Russian Orthodox church buildings, especially for the construction of the Church of St. Olga von Kiev in Franzensbad, Gustav Wiedermann was awarded the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anna of the Russian Empire . In addition, he received the Serbian Order of Saint Sava when the Serbian King Milan I visited Franzensbad . In 1889 Gustav Wiedermann became chairman of the local planting and beautification association and was imperial councilor and mayor of Franzensbad from 1900 to 1910. The Wiedermann Park in Franzensbad with the Dankwarte lookout tower (1916), now Rozhledna Zámeček, was named in his honor. The buildings by Gustav Wiedermann and his father Karl Wiedermann, which shaped most of the public space of the health resort at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, have remained almost unchanged to this day. Because of his many services to his hometown, he is also revered as the "creator of modern Franzensbad".

buildings

In Františkovy Lázně

  • Hall extension of the spa and society building (1877)
  • Villa Imperial (1877/78) Františkovy Lázně, Dr. Pohoreckého 151/3, by Karl Wiedermann, completed by Gustav Wiedermann (1878)
  • Spa II, called Kaiserbad (Císařské Lázně) (1872–1880), together with Karl Haberzettl (1848–1906)
  • Russian Orthodox Church of St. Olga (1887–1889), based on a design by Alexander Lavrentjewitsch Ober, the oldest Orthodox church in the Czech Republic
  • Extension of the Israelite Hospital to the synagogue in Franzensbad (1898), destroyed
  • Lookout tower and artificial castle ruins, called Salingburg (1906)
  • Villa Steinsberg (1906) Františkovy Lázně, Kollárova 180/7
  • New colonnade with gas baths (1912), together with Gabriel von Seidl
  • Farm building in Franzensbad

In other places

  • Russian Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul in Karlsbad (1893–1898), models were the Trinity Church at Ostankino Castle and the Russian Orthodox Church in Dresden
  • Russian Orthodox Church of St. Vladimir in Marienbad - Mariánské Lázně (1900–1902), based on a design by Nikolai Sultanow (1850–1908)
  • House Metropole (Dům Metropole) in Karlovy Vary - Karlovy Vary, Pod Jelením skokem 362/5
  • Sparkasse (Spořitelna) in Eger - Cheb , náměstí Krále Jiřího z Poděbrad 483/38
  • Margarethen's Villa (Villa Schmieger, 1887) in Eger - Cheb, Májová 582/19
  • Eger Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1898–1899) in Eger - Cheb, Sládkova 159/1
  • Side wing of the Dietrichstein Palace (Ditrichštejnský palác) (1877–1879) in Olomouc - Olomouc , Opletalova 364/1

Gallery of his buildings

  • Kaiserbad Franzensbad

  • Hotel Imperial Franzensbad

  • Casino Franzensbad

  • Russian Church Franzensbad

  • Russian Church Karlovy Vary

  • Russian Church Marienbad

  • New colonnade Franzensbad

  • Former Sparkasse in Cheb

  • Dietrichstein Palace in Olomouc

Web links

Commons : Gustav Wiedermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Alexandr Martinec: Pravoslavné chrámové stavby na území západních Čech (Orthodox Church Buildings in Western Bohemia), Bakalaureus Work, Charles University Prague, Praha 2013, 75 p. (Czech), see [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Gustav Wiedermann (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  2. ↑ Slavné vily - Gustav Wiedermann (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  3. ↑ Father and son Wiedermann in Franzensbad (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  4. ↑ Wiedermannpark - The green memory of Franzensbad (accessed on June 10, 2019)
  5. ^ Society house INGO Casino Franzensbad (accessed on June 10, 2019)
  6. ↑ Hotel Imperial Franzensbad (accessed June 10, 2019)
  7. ↑ Slavné vily - Villa Imperial (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  8. ↑ The Church of St. Olga (accessed June 10, 2019)
  9. ↑ Russian Orthodox Church Franzensbad (accessed June 10, 2019)
  10. ↑ Slavné vily - Villa Steinsberg (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  11. ↑ New colonnade with gas bath (accessed June 10, 2019)
  12. ↑ Lambert, André; Stahl, Eduard (ed.): Farm buildings in Franzensbad. [Executed by Gustav Wiedermann, Franzensbad]. Plate 94 in: Modern Architecture. Executed urban residential buildings, commercial and single-family houses, villas with their ancillary buildings, interesting details and interior views, wooden and ornamental buildings, floor plans etc. etc. in color. Publisher: Stuttgart Konrad Wittwer, 1890, see [1]
  13. ↑ Russian Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul (accessed June 10, 2019)
  14. ↑ The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Vladimir (accessed June 10, 2019)
  15. ↑ Slavné vily - Margarethen-Villa (Czech) (accessed June 10, 2019)
  16. ↑ Encyclopedia Cheb - Chamber of Commerce (accessed June 13, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Wiedermann, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Franzensbad
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1914
Place of death Franzensbad