Hubert Gessner

Hubert Johann Karl Gessner (born October 20, 1871 in Wallachian Klobouk ; † January 29, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Hubert Gessner worked and learned in Otto Wagner's office in 1898 and 1899 . From 1907 to 1912 he worked primarily with his brother Franz Gessner . After the end of the First World War , he soon became one of the leading architects for residential buildings in Vienna. During this time, the Karl-Seitz-Hof and the Reumannhof were established . With the “Anschluss” of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, however, he was banned from working and died during the Second World War .

One of the most famous works by Hubert Gessner is the Favoriten workers' home, built in the Art Nouveau style between 1901 and 1902 . During this activity he became friends with Victor Adler . However , he did not become a member of the Social Democratic Party .

Functions and memberships

• Full member of the Chamber of Architects (from 1923)
• Vice-President of the Central Association of Architects in Austria
• Member of the Lower Austrian Trade Association

Buildings

Many of these structures were built in collaboration with his brother Franz Gessner .

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1896	Villa Bratmann	Smetanova 116, Valašské Klobouky , Czech Republic Location	Note: Hubert Gessner also designed other buildings in his hometown
		1897	Chamber of Commerce Hradec Králové	Náměstí Svobody 2, Hradec Králové , Czech Republic Location	Today a pedagogical university
		1901	Savings bank building in Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi , Ukraine location	1st prize competition, built as Bukowina Sparkasse, now an art museum
		1902	Worker's home favorites	Laxenburgerstrasse 8-10, Vienna 10 location	Note: competition, 1st prize, now a hotel, facade reconstructed
		1903	Grave Julius Popp	Central cemetery location	Tomb for Julius Popp , politician and confidante of Victor Adler
		1903-1904	District Health Insurance Fund Brno	Milady Horákové 329/24, Brno, Czech Republic Location	Annotation:
		1904-1905	District health insurance fund Floridsdorf	Holzmeistergasse 9, Vienna 21 location	changed Note: with Franz Gessner
		1905	Hotel Schlesischer Hof	Masarykova 11, Opava , Czech Republic Location	destroyed With Franz Gessner.
		1905	Central Bath Brno	Rašínova 643/12, Brno , Czech Republic Location	changed with Franz Gessner
		1905	Moravian insane asylum in Kremsier	Hacvickova 50, Kroměříž , Czech Republic Location
		1905	Storehouse of the Austrian Consumption Association	Sonnwendgasse 15, Vienna 10 location	destroyed
		1906	Hotel Heinrichshof	Lidická 1413/4, Novy Jicin, Czech Republic Location	Note: with Franz Gessner
		1907	Consumption hall Pöchlarn	Neudastraße 3, Golling an der Erlauf location	changed
		1907	Villa Gessner BDA-ID:  52314 Wikidata	Sternwartestraße 70, Vienna 18 location
		1908	Bakery of the 1.NÖ consumer association	Wolfganggasse 58–60, Vienna 12 Location	Note: east and north sides changed
		1908-1909	First Lower Austrian workers' consumer association	Wolfganggasse 58–60, Vienna 12 Location	with Franz Gessner, changed
		1908-1909	Bakery of the 1st Vienna Consumer Association	Hasnerstrasse 123, Vienna 16 location
		1908-1909	Hammerbrotwerke Schwechat	Innerbergstraße 28, Schwechat, Lower Austria location
		1909-1910	Party house	Printing and publishing house "Vorwärts", Vienna 5, right Wienzeile 97 location	with Franz Gessner
		1910	Worker bakery	Liberec, Czech Republic location
		1909-1912	Publishing house "Arbeiterwille"	Hans-Resel-Gasse 8–14, Graz Location	changes the publishing house "Arbeiterwill", Social Democratic Party House, "Vorwärts" book printing company
		1910	Floridsdorf workers' home	Angererstraße 14, Vienna 21 location	destroyed With Franz Gessner expanded by adding a hall. Demolished in 1964.
		1910	First Tyrolean workers bakery	Haller Strasse 93, Mühlau / Innsbruck, Tyrol	destroyed
		1911	Children's rest home	Stranzendorf, Korneuburg district, Lower Austria coordinates are missing! Help.	with Franz Gessner Note: possibly destroyed, can no longer be found under this name
		1911-1912	Workers' housing complex	In line 6a, b, c, Gloggnitz location
		1911-1912	Liesing residential colony	Elisenstrasse 32–42, Vienna 23 location
		1912	Duplex house	Kettenbrückengasse 20, Vienna 4 location	Note: with Franz Gessner
		1912	Insurance company for Austrian railway workers	Vienna 4, Linke Wienzeile 48–52 location
		1911-1920	Mill, bread works and workers' house F. Odkolek AG	Ke Klicovu 1, Prague-Vysočany , Czech Republic Location	changed
		1920-1921	House of the employees of F. Odkolek AG	Pod Pekárnami 17, Prague-Vysočany, Czech Republic Location
		1912	Workers bakery	Leoben, Bergmann Strasse 18, Styria. Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1912-1913	"Fünfhaus" residential complex	Mödling, Payergasse 19, 21, 23, Lower Austria location	Note: today "Leopold Müller Hof"
		1912-1913	Railway workers' home	Vienna 5, Margaretenstraße 166 location	With Franz Gessner. Rebuilt after war damage, especially in the roof area, reduced.
		1913	Residential complex	Franz Schubertgasse 4–8 / Ehrenbrunnergasse 10 / Hanuschgasse 2, Schwechat location
		1913-16	Machine box and wood goods factory Koffmahn, Sargfabrik	Breitenfurter Straße 176, Vienna 23 location
		1913-1917	Living u. Commercial building d. Obersteir. Savings and consumer association	Roseggerstrasse 24, Bruck an der Mur location
		1914	Höfinger office building	Domplatz 9 / Herrenplatz 4, St.Pölten, Lower Austria location	According to Werner Kilitschka (1984), the house is "a previously absolutely modern building in the sense of the new objectivity that has now been consistently expressed artistically". The sculptural jewelry on the building comes from Anton Hanak.
		1914	Consumer association building	Neudorferstraße 10, Mödling, Lower Austria location
		1918	Accumulator factory	Siebenhirtenstraße 12, Vienna 23 location	destroys the former Varta area. Destroyed in 2009.
		1918	Hammerbrotwerke Vienna 21	Schwaigergasse 19, Vienna 21 location	destroyed
		1918	Victor Adler's grave	Zentralfriedhof, Vienna location	Grave of Engelbert Pernerstorfer , Victor Adler , Friedrich Adler , Karl Seitz and Otto Bauer
		1920-1921	Spatenbrotwerke Linz	Semmelweisstrasse 40, Linz location	destroyed Note: also workers' bread factories
		1921	Centralkino Linz in the Hotel Schiff	Landstrasse 36, Linz, Upper Austria location
		1923-1925	Metzleinstalerhof	Margaretengürtel 90–98, Vienna 5 location
		1924	Lassalle-Hof	Lassallestraße 40, Vienna 2 location	with Friedrich Schlossberg, Hans Paar, Fritz Waage, competition 2nd prize
		1924	Reumann-Hof	Margaretengürtel 100–112, Vienna 5 location
		1924-1926	Ratschkybad	Ratschkygasse, 1120 Vienna Location
		1925	Heizmann-Hof	Vorgartenstraße 140–142 / Radingerstraße 9, Vienna 2nd location
		1925	Fire station Leopoldstadt	Vorgartenstraße 140–142 / Radingerstraße 9, Vienna 2nd location
		1925	Technical works administration building	Kaplanhof Straße 1, Linz location
		1926-1932	Karl-Seitz-Hof	Jedleseerstraße 66–94, Vienna 21 location	Built as a garden city Jedlesee Annotation: Competition victory
		1927-1928	Housing complex "Robert Zangerl Hof"	Schreckgasse 14, Neunkirchen location
		1928	Official building of the Chamber for Workers u. Employee Upper Austria	Volksgartenstrasse 40, Linz location	changed In 2008 the building was completely refurbished and an attic extension was added.
		1928-1930	Hotel International, Graz	Hans-Resel-Gasse 6, Graz location	The inside of the building has been greatly changed, only 13 frescoes by Alfred Wickenburg have been preserved.
		1928-1931	Augarten Bridge over the Danube Canal	Vienna 2 location
		1929-1930	Chamber for workers and employees Styria	Hans Resel-Gasse 8–14, Graz Location	The building was erected at the address where the "Arbeiterwille" publishing house previously stood
		1930	Villa Slupetzky	Sieveringerstraße 13, Vienna 19 location
		1930	Extension of the Villa Renner	Rennergasse, Gloggnitz location	Hubert Gessner added another storey to the building in 1930.
		1930-1931	Villa House Winterstein	Pötzleinsdorferstraße 123, Vienna 18 location
		1934	Gessner-Slupetzky house	Gersthoferstraße 147 / Scheibenbergstraße 52, Vienna 18 location
		1942-1943	Michael Rubey Chocolate Factory	Mitisgasse 18–20, Vienna 14	destroyed Note: Address does not exist.
		around 1911	Portal S. Friedmann jun.	Weihburggasse 26, Vienna 1 location	destroyed Note: with Franz Gessner

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 523-524.
• Markus Kristan: Hubert Gessner. Architect between the German Empire and Social Democracy 1871–1943 . Passagen, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85165-975-7 .
• Lukeš, Zdeněk: Settling the debt: German-speaking architects in Prague 1900–1938 (Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900–1938). Praha: Fraktály Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. ISBN 80-86627-04-7 . Section Hubert Gessner, pp. 60–61.

Web links

Commons : Hubert Gessner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Hubert Gessner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ).
• Hubert Gessner. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Hubert Gessner. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.).
• Hubert Gessner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna .
• Hubert Gessner. In: arch INFORM .
• Hubert Gessner on dasrotewien-waschsalon.at (PDF; 24, 4 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/architektura-gessnerovo-dilo-v-cesku-a-psi-vychazka-fy2-/p_architekt.aspx?c=A100928_112717_p_architekt_wag
2. ^ Workers' home Floridsdorf in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
3. ↑ https://issuu.com/universalmuseum/docs/schadrossa_kat_web/94

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