Heinz Gerl

Reisnerstrasse 26th

Heinz Gerl (born September 15, 1852 in Vienna ; † May 3, 1908 ibid) was an Austrian historical architect and imperial court architect. He worked mainly in Vienna and created representative buildings there.

Life

Heinz Gerl was a son of the city master builder and civil architect Peter Rudolf Gerl and Karolina, geb. Ciacimian. One of his grandfathers was the city architect Peter Gerl . Gerl studied from 1871 to 1875 at the Polytechnic in Vienna, where Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König were among his teachers, and then until 1876 with Theophil Hansen at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1876 he passed the master builder examination and in 1884 he built his first independent house. The factory owner Eugen Heilpern and his wife Adele moved into this house at Reisnerstrasse 26 in Vienna soon after it was completed . The Heilpern / Perlmutter family still lived in the house at the time of the Anschluss . Also in 1884, the house at Straßengasse 24 / Margaretenstraße 61 was built. Here, however, Gerl was possibly only the performer. In 1887 he built the Karl and Franziska Wenzelsche Stiftungshaus in Beatrixgasse 19A, followed in 1888 by the apartment building at Beatrixgasse 18, in 1893 an apartment building at Veithgasse 5, around the same time the apartment building at Reisnerstraße 30, the decor of which has largely not been preserved, built. At the turn of the century he designed the residential complex at Salesianergasse 4, in 1902 he built the apartment building Seilerstätte 18–20 / Himmelpfortgasse 14 and, perhaps only as a contractor, a house in Reisnerstraße 24. In 1903 an apartment building was built on Landstraßer Hauptstraße , which followed in 1907 Apartment building at Kohlgasse 47. In 1906/07 the residential and commercial building was built at Wiedner Gürtel 12 / Mommsengasse 30–32, here too Gerl was possibly only the executor.

Mausoleum for Heinrich von Ferstel

In addition to these private buildings, Gerl created the mausoleum for Heinrich von Ferstel in 1891 and the monastery of the Mother of God in the Marienheim of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross , Vienna 12, Murlingengasse 71–73, in 1904/05 , the chapel of which was expanded in 1931. Together with Franz Gruber, he created the Graf Wilczek pavilion for the Rudolfinerhaus hospital in Billrothstrasse 78 at the beginning of the 20th century. When the Palais d'Este at Beatrixgasse 25 was converted into a museum in 1895, he built the extension to the garden wing and converted the previous apartments into museum rooms.

Gerl married Marie von Woerz in 1884, with whom he had two children. He died of stomach cancer and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Offices and Awards

From 1890 Gerl was a sworn expert at the kk Oberhofmarschallamt and the kk Landesgericht Wien and from 1906 a member of the examination commission for the building trade in Vienna. He held the building council title, was a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects from 1877, and was a member of the Lower Austrian Trade Association from 1886. He was also a member of the castle building commission.

Gerl was a bearer of the war medal, knight of the papal order of Gregory and knight of the royal Spanish order Charles III.

Web links

Commons : Heinz Gerl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the apartment gazette from 1886, p. 447 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Palais Modena at 1030wien.at
3. ↑ Inge Scheidl, Heinz Gerl at www.architektenlexikon.at