Heinrich Ried
Heinrich Karl Ried (born July 8, 1881 in Hietzing ; † May 13, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .
Life
Heinrich Ried was the son of a bricklayer foreman and first attended the state trade school in Vienna. From 1902 to 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Victor Luntz , Alfred Castelliz and Friedrich Ohmann , whose collaborator he was also on short notice. In addition to the Gundel Prize in 1904, Ried also received a state travel grant in 1905, the so-called Rome Prize, which was reserved for the best of the year. In 1906 he took study trips to Italy, Greece and Spain.
He then took part in various competitions and in 1909 had great success with his design for the artist house in Brno . Since then, Ried has worked as a freelance architect. During the First World War he did military service and was a lieutenant engineer.
Both during the time of Red Vienna and in the construction phase after the Second World War, Ried received several orders for municipal residential buildings for the community.
meaning
Heinrich Ried, like his teacher Friedrich Ohmann, was a supporter of extremely decorative architecture that stood in contrast to the prevailing factual trend. Even his first significant buildings, the artists' house in Brno and the Sparkassa in Budweis, show an exuberant variety of designs and are today sights. The council between the wars have imaginative Renaissance forms and can Heimatstil be numbered among. After Ried had received the order to restore and expand the Vienna Palace of Justice after its fire, he was violently attacked by representatives of objectivity such as Josef Frank or Josef Hoffmann and his work was defamed as a disgrace to the Palace of Justice . Rudolf Perco even spoke of "psychopathic dilettantism" in an interview with the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung . A libel action by Ried was unsuccessful. Even in the decidedly sober period after the Second World War, Ried remained true to his penchant for decorativism, demonstrating against the prevailing style of the time and, from today's perspective, anticipating postmodernism .
Works
- Emperor Franz Joseph's jubilee artist house, today Dům umění in Brno (1909)
- Savings Bank Building in Budweis (1911)
- Wohnhausanlage Bürgergasse 22, Wien favorites (1925)
- Housing complex Gründorfgasse 4, Vienna- Penzing (1928)
- Restoration and extension of the Vienna Palace of Justice (1929–30)
- Wohnhausanlage Gerl-Hof , Vienna- Brigittenau (1931)
- Restoration of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Vienna (1948)
- Reconstruction of the Federal Geological Institute, Vienna- Landstrasse (1950)
- Housing complex Karolinengasse 24, Vienna- Wieden (1951)
- Residential complex Liechtensteinstrasse 131–133, Vienna- Alsergrund (1956–57)
In addition, Ried built several country houses and factories.
literature
- Hans Hautmann , Rudolf Hautmann : The municipal housing of the Red Vienna 1919-1934 . Schönbrunn, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85364-063-1 .
- Helmut Weihsmann: Das Rote Wien , social democratic architecture and local politics 1919–1934 . 2nd edition, Promedia, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85371-181-1 .
Web links
- Heinrich Ried. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Prokop: Rudolf Perco (1884–1942). From the architecture of Red Vienna to Nazi megalomania. Vienna 2001, p. 232
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ried, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ried, Heinrich Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hietzing |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1957 |
| Place of death | Vienna |