Heinrich Adam (architect)

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Heinrich Adam
The Habig-Hof in Vienna
Detail on the roof of a bay window. Imperial double-headed eagle framed by the company P. & C. Habig

Heinrich Adam (born March 18, 1839 in Dierbach , † January 29, 1905 in Vienna ) was a German- Austrian architect and Viennese councilor. He is considered to be the representative of the “southern German” school in the neo-baroque idiom.

biography

Heinrich Adam, son of an economist , studied from 1861 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Ludwig Lange and then came to Vienna.

In 1869 he became a member of the Künstlerhaus. He was successful relatively quickly, one of his first commissions was for the Duke of Württemberg. He built his castle for him in Gmunden in Upper Austria. Together with the Munich architect Arnold Zenetti , they were allowed to build the Duke's Vienna City Palace from 1862 to 1865, today's Hotel Imperial . The designs for the wrought iron work and the furniture came from Adam.

In the course of his career he built other villas and apartment buildings, especially in Vienna. Some of the objects were carried out in collaboration with other architects.

  • Palais Hans Wahliss, 1892 (Argentinierstrasse 21, Vienna IV)
  • Front apartment building for Ernst and Anne Wahliss, 1884
  • Habig-Hof , 1896–1897 (Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15–17, Vienna IV)
  • Tenement house Karolinengasse 14, Vienna IV, 1874
  • Weyringergasse 28A-30, Vienna IV, 1885
  • Favoritenstrasse 54, Vienna IV, 1887
  • Goldeggasse 29, Vienna IV, 1890,
  • St.-Elizabeth-Platz 6, Vienna IV, 1894
  • Margaretenstrasse 129, Vienna V, 1898–1899
  • Argentinierstrasse 48, Vienna IV, 1901
  • Altmünster am Traunsee: Villa Marie Therese for Duke Philipp von Württemberg (1838–1917) and Duchess Marie Therese (1845–1927), today the federal high school of the State of Upper Austria

Adam was elected to the Vienna City Council and was a member of the Liberals from 1886 to 1896 and a member of the City Hall and Danube City Commission. He was a member of the "non-political association" Humanitas in Vienna and the lodge of the same name in Neudörfl an der Leitha, Hungary, at that time .

He died in the house at Argentinierstrasse 36 in the 4th district and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in the Evangelical Department. The gate at Palais Schwarzenberg was posthumously executed from his drawings at the Rennweg driveway.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 10.
  • Helmut Weihsmann: Heinrich Adam . In: ders .: Built in Vienna. Lexicon of 20th Century Viennese Architects. Promedia, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85371-234-7 . P. 14

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Heinrich Adam . In: ders .: Built in Vienna. Lexicon of 20th Century Viennese Architects. Promedia, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85371-234-7 . P. 14
  2. ↑ 01712 Heinrich Adam, register book 1841-1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
  3. ^ History of the non-political association Humanitas in Vienna and the lodge of the same name in Neudörfl ad L. Ed. Of the lodge "Humanitas" on the occasion of its ten-year existence in 1882, Chr. L. Praetorius, Vienna 1882, pp. 145 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Dierbach
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1905
Place of death Vienna