Josef Drexler

Josef Drexler in 1901

Josef Drexler (born February 8, 1850 in Vienna ; † June 1, 1922 there ) was an Austrian architect and city architect.

Life

Josef Drexler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Theophil von Hansen . In 1873 he worked for the architecture office Claus & Gross before he founded his own company in the same year. The success was likely to have been rather small at first, as Drexler was also employed in the Vienna City Building Office from 1878 to 1885. After a private stroke of fate in which his wife died, he suffered a nervous breakdown and had to spend some time in a mental hospital. That is why his brother Anton Drexler joined the company, which has since developed extremely successful construction activities in Austria, as well as in Bohemia and Moravia, under the name of the Drexler brothers. Drexler received the master builder license in 1892, and in 1898 the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown. Due to disagreements, the company was dissolved in 1912. This ended Josef Drexler's career, of which no further buildings are known after this point in time.

meaning

Together with his brother, Josef Drexler was one of the most productive and therefore more important architects in Vienna at the turn of the century. The main focus of their work was residential building, but they also built various public buildings. Initially committed to historicism with neo-baroque decor, secessionist forms appeared around 1910 , occasionally also the Heimat style .

Works

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1882	Girls school	Schulgasse 2, Stockerau location
		1884	gym	Schiesstattgasse 9, Stockerau location
		1885	Wiener Trabrennverein, residential buildings and stables	Trabrennstraße / Nordportalstraße, Vienna 2nd location	Execution of residential buildings and stables. In the competition for the new construction of the grandstands in 1910, Drexler won 2nd prize. Note: Indicated at AZW as 1910.
		1885-1886	Municipal office, district court and savings bank	Hauptplatz 1, Haugsdorf location
		1885-1887	Freudenau horse racing track	Freudenau 65, Vienna 2 location	Note: Restoration of the grandstand after a fire in 1883. Subsequently, according to his plans, the totalizator building, the administration building and the stable building were also built by 1887.
		1886-1888	Horse training institute and residential building	Schönfeld-Lassee, Lower Austria	multiple objects Note:
		1886-1889	Landwehr cavalry barracks	Schaumanngasse 1–5, Stockerau location
		1887-1888	Rental houses	Keplerplatz 2 and 3, Vienna 10 location
		1887-1888	town hall	Valtice , Czech Republic location
		1889-1890	Municipal office and savings bank	Náměstí 93, Jaroslavice , Czech Republic Location
			Elementary and citizen school	Jaroslavice 397, Czech Republic Location
		1892	Residential building	Josefsgasse 11 / Langegasse 18, Vienna 8 location
		1892	Columbus-Hof rental house and restoration	Columbusplatz 6, Vienna 10 location
		1892	Circus bush	Exhibition Street, Vienna 2	destroyed destroyed
		1893-1894	Polytechnic school	Burgplatz 3, Laa an der Thaya location
		before 1894	Karl Meissl'sches Foundation House	Vienna 2, Castellezgasse 2 location
		1894	Rental house	Wallensteinplatz 2, Vienna 20 location
		1895	Boys' primary and community school	Kostelní 163, Český Krumlov , Czech Republic Location	Note: Competition 2nd prize
		1895	Town hall with Sparkassa	nám. Míru 1, Domažlice , Czech Republic Location	Note: competition, prizes
		1895	Elementary and civic school in Úštěk	Úštěk , Czech Republic Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1896	Elementary and community school in Lundenburg	Sovadinova 565/1, Břeclav , Czech Republic Location
		1896-1897	Kaiser Franz Josef High School in Mährisch-Schönberg	Hlavní tř. 652/31, Šumperk , Czech Republic Location	Competition, 1st prize
		1897	Residential building	Schanzstrasse 37, Vienna 14 location
		1897	pavilion	Coordinates are missing! Help.	Pavilion and other exhibition buildings as well as a weather house for the Kaiser anniversary exhibition in Vienna in 1898. Competition 1st prize. Today in Wertheimsteinpark Note: No clear assignment possible.
		before 1898	Residential and commercial building	Lerchenfelderstrasse 16 / Neudeggergasse, Vienna 8 location
		1898	Villa Karger	Sarmingstein 28, Upper Austria location
		1898	M. Primavesi Palace	Žerotínova 267/11, Šumperk , Czech Republic Location
		1898-1899	Kaiser Franz Josef Jubilee School	Deublergasse 21, Vienna 21 location	today Franz Jonas European School; Competition, awarded
		before 1899	Rental house	Schönbrunnerstrasse 119–121, Vienna 5 location	Note: Am Hundsturm 8
		1898-1901	Viennese dairy	Molkereistraße 1, Vienna 2 location	destroyed
		1899	Rental house	Kochgasse 3–5, Vienna 8 location
		1899	Rental house	Hamburgerstraße 12, Vienna 5 location
		1900	Zum Walfisch residential and commercial building	Kellermanngasse 1–3, Vienna 7 location
		1900	Association house of the Imperial and Royal Agriculture and Forestry Society	Schauflergasse 6, Vienna 1 location	Competition, prizes; simplified repairs after war damage
		1901	Rental house	Matthäusgasse 8 / Kolonitzgasse 4, Vienna 3 location	Drexler brothers' studio
		1901-1903	Floridsdorf town hall	Am Spitz 1, Vienna 21 location	today district office, competition, awarded
		1902	Residential complex	Christophgasse 4, 6 and Bräuhausgasse 43, Vienna 5 location
		before 1903	Rental house	Kellermanngasse 8, Vienna 7 location	Note: formerly Schottenhofgasse 5
		1905	Street courtyard	Radetzkystraße 25–27, Vienna 3 location
		1905	Villa Kemenovic	Stockerauerstraße 45, Korneuburg location
		1906-1911	Rental houses	Rudolf von Alt-Platz 4, 5, 7, Vienna 3 location	Note: Coordinates refer to house number 4
		1908	former Rendezvous post office	Brünner Strasse 311, Vienna 21 location	Conversion, now a private villa
		1908-1909	Living u. Commercial building	Löwengasse 47-47A, Vienna 3 location
		1908-1909	Rental house and savings bank	Gatterburggasse 23, Vienna 19 location
		1908-1909	Rental house	Gatterburggasse 25, Vienna 19 location
		1909	Rental house	Weißgerberlände 52, Vienna 3 location
		1910	Rental house	Kollergasse 16, Vienna 3 location
		1910	Rental houses	Weißgerberlände 40 and 42, Vienna 3 location	Note: Coordinates refer to house number 42
		1910	Rental house	Weißgerberlände 50 / Kegelgasse 44, Vienna 3 location
		1910-12	Dual citizenship school and community center in Hohenau an der March	Hauptstrasse 27, Hohenau an der March location
		1911	Rental house	Dampfschiffstraße 20 / Obere Weißgerberstraße 19, Vienna 3 location	with Gustav Holaubek
		1911	Rental house	Untere Weißgerberstraße 49–51 / Paracelsusgasse 8, Vienna 3 location
		1912	Rental house	Franzensbrückenstraße 16, Vienna 2 location
		1912	Rental house	Zirkusgasse 36 / Rotensterngasse 28, Vienna 2nd location
		1912	Residential building	Krottenbachstrasse 1 / Billrothstrasse 63, Vienna 19 location
		1912	Rental house	Osterleitengasse 2 / Döblinger Hauptstrasse, Vienna 19 location
			Stables, houses, horse training institute	Tata Tóváros , Hungary Coordinates are missing! Help.

literature

Robert Martin Kuttig: The architecture of Anton & Josef Drexler in Vienna. Planned and completed rental and commercial buildings from 1887 to 1912 . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna. Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, 2008 ( online as PDF )

Web links

Commons : Josef Drexler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Josef Drexler. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Josef Drexler in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ škola (Český Krumlov) ÚSKP 102587 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

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