Johann Gradt

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Johann Gradt (born December 21, 1831 in Jurklošter , Slovenia , † July 19, 1879 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and preservationist .

Life

Gradt was born in what was then Lower Styria as the son of a butcher and later innkeeper. After completing his school education in Vienna, he studied technology at the Joanneum in Graz from 1851 to 1857 . He left Graz without a degree and switched to the architecture school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After completing his studies, Gradt returned to Styria and from 1863 worked in the monument documentation service. In 1867 he received the official order from the Historisches Verein für Steiermark to complete the so-called monumental statistics begun by Carl Haas (drawing of primarily medieval monuments). In the summer of 1869 he became secretary of the Lower Austrian Trade Association and director of the first Austrian building trade school in Vienna. He then moved back to Vienna. In 1871 he became the correspondent for Lower Austria of the kk Central Commission for the research and preservation of architectural monuments .

Publications (selection)

  • The medieval monuments of the city of Laa and its surroundings . In: Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for the Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments 17, 1872
  • The parish church of St. Jacob in Lichtenwörth . In: Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for the Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments 17, 1872
  • The wrought iron candlesticks of the collegiate church at Heiligenkreuz. In: Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for the Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments 18, 1873
  • Wiener Neustadt in the Middle Ages . In: Reports and communications from the Altertums-Verein zu Wien 14, 1874
  • Archaeological travel recordings from the western border of Lower Austria . In: Reports and communications from the Altertums-Verein zu Wien 14, 1874
  • Archaeological travel recordings from the quarter under the Vienna Woods . In: Reports and communications from the Altertums-Verein zu Wien 15, 1875
  • The Marien-Chapel of Wilhelmsburg . In: Communications from the KK Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Art and Historical Monuments NF 4, 1878
  • Provisional organizational statute and teaching program as well as report ... of the ... I. Austrian building trade school and the general (trade) drawing school in the IX. District in Vienna . Vienna 1878 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Josef Wastler: Styrian artist lexicon. Graz 1883, p. 509.
  • Theodor Brückler, Ulrike Nimeth: Personal encyclopedia for Austrian monument preservation (1850–1990). Berger, Horn 2001, ISBN 3-85028-344-5 , p. 86.
  • Monika Küttner: Carl Haas and Karl Haas. “Fusion” and “unbundling” of two artist personalities of the same name (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, Vol. 41 / Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, special volume 26). Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-901938-27-6 , pp. 156–170.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Küttner: Carl Haas and Karl Haas. “Fusion” and “unbundling” of two artist personalities of the same name (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, Vol. 41 / Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, special volume 26) . Graz 2017, p. 156 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Gradt, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurklošter
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1879
Place of death Vienna