Hermann von Riewel

Hermann von Riewel (born December 8, 1832 in Leipzig , † December 16, 1897 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian architect, kk building officer and professor.

Life

Riewel studied at the higher trade school in Kassel with Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and for a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig . After a study trip through Germany and Northern Italy he came to Vienna in 1856, where he got a job with Ludwig Förster and etched the designs of Heinrich von Ferstel , Friedrich von Schmidt and Vincenz Statz for the Viennese Votive Church for his “Allgemeine Bauzeitung” . In 1857 he was accepted as the main draftsman by the architect Heinrich von Ferstel, who was just building the neo-Gothic Votive Church in Vienna. When the construction manager of the Votive Church Joseph Kranner died in 1871 , Riewel took over his post.

As a freelance architect, he primarily planned neo-Gothic furnishings and fittings or restoration of (Gothic) sacred buildings in Lower Austria , including the parish churches in Haag (regotisation; 1878–1893), Zistersdorf (expanded to include a choir and tower; 1880), Neuhofen an der Ybbs (renovation; 1882) and St. Pantaleon (regotisation inside and outside; 1889–1892 / 93).

In 1886 Riewel was appointed curator of the kk Central Commission for research and conservation of art and historical monuments. He was also a professor and board member at the kk Staats-Gewerbeschule in Vienna, the predecessor of today's University of Applied Arts. In 1879 he was raised to the knighthood .

Riewel married Louise Hänel (1837–1907) and had three children.

Works

• 1878–1893 Regotisation of the parish church in Haag
• 1880 Extension of the choir and tower of the Zistersdorf parish church
• 1882 renovation of the parish church Neuhofen an der Ybbs
• 1889–1893 Regotization of the inside and outside of the parish church of St. Pantaleon in Lower Austria

literature

• G. Wacha:  Riewel Hermann von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 160.
• Hermann von Riewel. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

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