Heinrich von Ferstel

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Heinrich von Ferstel, around 1880, lithograph by Schubert
Votive Church Vienna
Ferstel's tomb in the Grinzing cemetery

Heinrich Ferstel , since 1879 Freiherr von Ferstel (born July 7, 1828 in Vienna , † July 14, 1883 in Grinzing , today Vienna 19th ) was an Austrian architect and university professor . He is considered an outstanding representative of historicism .

life and work

As the son of Ignaz Ferstel , a bank director from Prague, and nephew of the architect Friedrich August von Stache (1814–1895), he studied architecture at the Vienna Art Academy under Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg (1812–1868). His special talent enabled him to win smaller, award-winning competitions , including study trips to Germany, from 1855 to Italy and finally to France.

For the competition for the Votive Church , the first construction project on the Vienna Ringstrasse , which was still planned at the time , Ferstel submitted a neo-Gothic design in the style of French cathedral Gothic . He did so shortly before he started his trip to Italy, and he was in Naples when the news reached him that the first prize had fallen on his design and that he had won 4,000 guilders, which formed the basis of a later considerable fortune. By winning this competition in 1855, he became well known, having prevailed against 74 competitors from home and abroad.

He built several other public buildings in the inner city (1st district) of Vienna and on the Ringstrasse. After starting out in a romanticizing historicism (namely in the bank and stock exchange building on Freyung in Vienna, today called Palais Ferstel , which also houses the well-known coffee house Café Central ), he turned to a stricter style and was not least due to his professorship, which he from 1866 until his death at the Polytechnic (from 1870 Vienna University of Technology ), stylistically very influential. In 1880 he was rector of the technical university.

On his initiative, the Viennese Cottage Association was founded in 1872, which founded the Cottage Quarter with the aim of enabling “citizens to live in healthy, fresh air”. The project was aimed at the wealthy, not at the then large mass of proletarians.

Ferstel lived with his wife Lotte († April 8, 1922) and their six children in a villa in Grinzing north of the densely built-up urban area. The place was not incorporated into Vienna until 1892 and was a village during Ferstel's lifetime. His daughter Marianne married Zdenko von Forster zu Philippsberg , whom the Kaiser entrusted three times from 1908 to 1917 with the function of the Imperial and Royal Railway Minister.

In 1879 Ferstel was made an honorary citizen in Vienna and raised to the status of hereditary baron by Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1881 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts . In 1882 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects .

For years he was in personal contact with Hermann von der Hude (1830–1908), who wanted to report on his life and work on September 3, 1883 at the meeting of the Berlin Architects' Association.

Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel died in Grinzing on July 14, 1883, at the age of only 55. He was buried in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group MA, number 46) in an honorary tomb ; its mausoleum is modeled on a Gothic chapel. The inscription on the crypt plate only mentions his name and that of his wife Lotte geb. Fehlmann. The family crypt was built in 1891 by Heinrich von Ferstel's son, Max von Ferstel , who was also an architect, councilor, professor and rector at the Technical University in Vienna and, like other family members, was also buried there.

In 1886 in Vienna- Alsergrund (9th district), immediately behind the Votive Church, Ferstelgasse was named after Heinrich von Ferstel. Around 1980 the bank and stock exchange building he built on the Freyung was named by the owner Palais Ferstel as part of the revitalization .

In 1872 he became an honorary member of the Reading Association of German Students in Vienna and in 1879 of the reading hall at the Technical University in Vienna.

buildings

Main building of the University of Vienna
Liechtenstein Garden Palace , summer palace on Alserbachstrasse, view from the garden side

Ferstel built other palaces and villas.

Employee

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich von Ferstel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 21, 1883, pp. 259 and 260, accessed on December 19, 2012
  2. ^ Heinrich von Ferstel. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  3. ↑ Lotte Ferstel † .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, April 12, 1922, p. 7, center left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ^ The royal gold medal of the "Royal Institute of British Architects" , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , July 1, 1882, p. 235, accessed on December 11, 2012
  5. ^ Announcement in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , September 1, 1883, p. 320, accessed on December 20, 2012
  6. ^ P. Krause, "Catholic color students in Austria 1933 - 1983", published by the Vienna City Association of the MKV. P. 6
personal data
SURNAME Ferstel, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferstel, Heinrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1883
Place of death Vienna