Josef Hötzl

Josef Hötzl (born March 20, 1866 in Hollenegg ; † December 8, 1947 in Graz ) was an Austrian architect and builder .

Life

Josef Hötzl was born on March 20, 1866 in the municipality of Hollenegg in western Styria . After graduating from the Graz State Trade School, he worked for a construction company. Subsequently, he passed the journeyman's examination and worked as a foreman and draftsman . Thereupon he studied from 1891 to 1893 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Carl von Hasenauer and after completing his studies he set up an architecture office in Graz and passed the city ​​builder and carpenter exams. His study trips took him through Central Europe , especially to Italy , France and Germany . In Graz and the immediate vicinity in particular, he was still responsible for various buildings as an architect and / or master builder at the end of the 1890s.

For example, in 1898 during the construction of an apartment building at Muchargasse 28 in Graz, which impressed with its modern style, but still had an overall baroque impression that followed the buildings erected by Otto Wagner in Vienna in 1890 . "Instead of monumental pilasters, the uppermost part of the flat, only gently rusticated facade is decorated with falling leaf hangings, laurel wreaths and antique motifs" à la Wagner ", writes the architectural historian Antje Senarclens de Grancy, who works in Graz her book “Moderner Stil” and “Heimisches Bauen”. Architectural reform in Graz around 1900 . In 1897 he was responsible for the construction of Villa Feyertag in Panoramagasse 14 and in 1898/99 for the construction of Villa Gerber , which is also located in Panoramagasse (house number 26) . Later, the Villa Lapp in Albersdorf bei Weiz (1900), the Villa Radl in Schubertstrasse 68 in Graz (1903) or an Art Nouveau villa in Johann-Fux-Gasse 25 in Graz (1904) followed. Furthermore, it was characterized by the baroque-secessinist style of the power station Deutschfeistritz , which was built between 1903 and 1908.

Other buildings in which he worked as an architect and / or master builder include the Schwechater beer hall in Herrengasse (1907) and the kk priv. Steiermärkische Escompte-Bank also in Herrengasse (1910) or the now demolished Puntigamer Murbrücke from the 1925. In 1907 he appeared as one of the founding members of the Deutscher Werkbund and in 1910 he carried out renovation work on the house built in 1898 at 28 Muchargasse. In 1913 an adaptation and a new facade for Victor Schmidt took place in the two-story tenement house built in 1851 at Merangasse 4 in Graz. After he appeared as a civil architect from 1926, among other things , two years later he showed himself to be responsible for the construction of Villa Dr. Friedl , in the Bruno-Ertler-Gasse in Graz, named after the writer Bruno Ertler . In the June 1914 issue of the monthly Heimgarten published by Peter Rosegger , he dedicated an article to him. From 1942 to 1944 Josef Hötzl taught at the Graz building school and at the Grieskai vocational school in Graz. On December 8, 1947, Hötzl died at the age of 81 in Graz, where he had lived for decades.

Work (selection)

Hötzl appeared as an architect and / or builder in the following projects:

• Villa Feyertag , Panoramagasse 14, Graz (1897)
• Villa Gerber , Panoramagasse 26, Graz (1898/99)
• Villa Lapp , Weiz-Albersdorf (1900)
• Villa Radl , Schubertstrasse, Graz (1903)
• Deutschfeistritz power station (1903–1908)
• Art Nouveau villa , Johann-Fux-Gasse 25, Graz (1904)
• kk priv. Steiermärkische Escompte-Bank , Herrengasse, Graz (1907)
• Schwechater beer hall , Herrengasse, Graz (1907)
• Residential house , Muchargasse 28, Graz (1898 and remodeling in 1910)
• Apartment building , adaptation and new facade, Merangasse 4, Graz (1913)
• Puntigamer Murbrücke , Graz (1925)
• Villa Dr. Friedl , Bruno-Ertler-Gasse, Graz (1928)

literature

• Peter Rosegger : Heimgarten . June 1914, p. ? .
• Hötzl, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 370 f. (Direct links on p. 370 , p. 371 ).
• Sokratis Dimitriou (Red.): City expansion of Graz: Wilhelminian era [1850-1914] (= publication series of the Graz City Museum 2). Leykam, Graz, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7011-7083-5 , pp. 140, 141, 144.
• Antje Senarclens de Grancy: "Modern Style" and "Local Building". Architectural reform in Graz around 1900. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2001, ISBN 978-3-205-99284-4 , p. ? .