Josef Klee

Josef Klee (* 1788 in Johannesberg , Austrian Silesia , † June 19, 1852 in Vienna ) was an Austrian city architect.

Life

Josef Klee was the son of a master mason. He probably also completed an apprenticeship as a mason and mason. In any case, he was granted a master builder license in Vienna in 1818 and has appeared on the guild board since 1819 with his name and his own stonemason's mark. As a result, Klee received numerous lucrative building contracts and became a city architect. He also made a career in civil service, became a kk government builder, management adjunct and sworn appraiser at the Inheritance Tax Court Commission. In these functions, he was accused of corruption in his and his son-in-law Leopold Mayr's favor.

Apartment building, Kettenbrückengasse 23 (1828)

Apartment building, Heumarkt 5 (1828)

Apartment building complex, Heumarkt 3 (1828–1829)

plant

Josef Klee was one of the busiest builders of the Vormärz in Vienna. As a builder, he built many houses according to someone else's plans, but also worked according to his own designs. Typical for him are simple and sober apartment buildings in the suburbs with three floors and an inner courtyard. Klee also executed some buildings, which he made representative using set pieces from older style periods.

• Residential building "To the Immaculate Virgin Mary" , Vienna 3, Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 64 (additional storey in 1843) (1821)
• Rental house , Vienna 6, Gumpendorfer Straße 95 (extension) (1822)
• Residential house "Zumgrün Kopf" , Vienna 3, Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 106 (1822)
• Hotel "Goldenes Lamm" , Vienna 4, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 7 (increase) (1823)
• Residential building , Vienna 4, right Wienzeile 15 (increase) (1823)
• Residential house , Vienna 9, Berggasse 5 (1825)
• Rental house , Vienna 3, Salesianergasse 17 (1826)
• Rental house , Vienna 6, Stumpergasse 3 (1826)
• Residential house "Zum Ofenloch" , Vienna 1, Kurrentgasse 10 / Kleeblattgasse 9 (1826–1827)
• Apartment building , Vienna 1, Blumenstockgasse 3 (1827)
• Apartment building , Vienna 3, Am Heumarkt 5 (1828)
• Apartment building , Vienna 5, Kettenbrückengasse 23 (heightened and refurbished after 1850) (1828)
• Apartment building complex , Vienna 3, Am Heumarkt 3 (1828–1829)
• Residential building , Vienna 1, Bräunerstraße 1 (extension; 2nd half of the 19th century heavily modified) (1830)
• Rental house , Vienna 3, Heumühlgasse 14 (facade redesigned in 1860) (1830)
• Rental house , Vienna 4, Preßgasse 29 (side wing added in 1851) (1830)
• Rental house , Vienna 6, Laimbgrubengasse 22 (extension) (1830)
• Rental house , Vienna 6, Gumpendorfer Strasse 157 (1830)
• Residential house “Zum silbernen Löwen” (house where Christoph Willibald Gluck died ), Vienna 4, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 32 (increase) (1830–1831)
• Generali-Hof , Vienna 1, Graben 13 (reconstruction; changed in 1894) (1831)
• Parish Church Erdberg (Vienna) , Vienna 3, Apostelgasse 1 (conversion, under construction management Karl Pranters senior) (1831–1833)
• Apartment building , Vienna 1, Ballgasse 3 (1832)
• Rental house , Vienna 5, Laurenzgasse 3 (1833)

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Klee Josef. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 525 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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