Josef Gerl (architect)

Josef Ignaz Gerl (born May 22, 1734 in Klosterneuburg ; † February 1, 1798 in Vienna ) was an Austrian builder and architect .

Life

Josef Gerl came from a widespread family of builders. His father was the monastery master builder of Klosterneuburg and city master builder of Vienna Mathias Gerl , whose eldest son he was. His brothers Liborius Thaddäus Gerl (1738–1805) and Philipp Ignaz Gerl (1738–1815) also became master builders. He learned the trade from his father, was acquitted in 1747 and accepted into the master builder guild in 1761. Gerl made a successful career in Vienna and made quite a fortune, so that, together with two other Viennese citizens, he was able to set up the Count Wurmserisch-Austrian-Styrian Freikorps to fight the French in 1793 at his own expense. From 1759 to 1765 he was married to Theresia, the widow of the court architect Johann Baptist Martinelli , and after her death, his second marriage in 1765 to Theresia Maria Anna Peffl, with whom he had six children. He died in a house of the former Himmelpfort monastery, which he had acquired in 1785 after it was closed. In 1795 Gerl received the medal of grace on a gold chain from Emperor Franz II.

meaning

Josef Gerl's work is stylistically influenced by the era of Emperor Joseph , Josephinism , and mostly shows simple, baroque - classicist forms. He was able to build large-scale projects and public buildings that required a great deal of organizational talent, but left little room for design measures in the external area. From church and residential construction to major public projects, he was active in all areas of construction.

Works

Melker Hof (1769–1794)

Fool's Tower in the General Hospital (1784)

Nussdorf parish church (1784–1789)

• Completion of the parish church of St. Egydius , Groissenbrunn (1763)
• Melker Hof , Schottengasse 3-3a, Vienna 1 (1769–1794)
• Conversion of the cloister courtyard and east wing of the Neukloster Abbey , Wiener Neustadt (1763–1776)
• High altar of the parish church Gainfarn (1765–1767)
• Parish Church Theresienfeld (1767)
• Parish Church Großriedenthal (1768)
• Extensions and modifications to the castle in Wiener Neustadt (1769–1777), together with Nikolaus von Pacassi
• Residential house "Zu den 5 Lerchen" , Währinger Straße 29, Vienna 9 (1770), not preserved
• Josefstädter Kavalleriekaserne , Vienna 8 (1772–1777), not preserved
• Chapel of the Assumption in Melker Hof , Schottengasse 3-3a, Vienna 1 (1773)
• Heumarktkaserne , Vienna 3 (1774), not preserved
• Extension and refectory of the Elisabethinen Monastery , Landstraßer Hauptstraße 4a, Vienna 3 (1779)
• Rental house , Margaretenstrasse 31, Vienna 4 (1781), not preserved
• Refectory, gate building and facade of the Himmelpfort monastery , Himmelpfortgasse 9, Vienna 1 (1783)
• Military Invalidenhaus, Invalidenstrasse, Vienna 3 (1783–1786), not preserved
• Reconstruction and expansion of the General Hospital , Alserstraße 4, Vienna 9 (1783–1784)
• Fool's Tower in the General Hospital (1784)
• Nussdorf Parish Church , Greinergasse, Vienna 19 (1784–1789)
• Parish Church of St. Michael , Haselbach (1785)
• Rental house , Erdbergstrasse 29 and 29a, Vienna 3 (1785), not preserved
• Staircase and extension of the Palais Caprara-Geymüller , Wallnerstraße 8, Vienna 1 (1786)
• House of Camillo Graf von Colloredo , Rauhensteingasse 3, Vienna 1 (1787)
• Parish yard of the Nussdorf parish church , Greinergasse 25, Vienna 19 (1787)

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 508.

Web links

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

• Josef Gerl. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.