Josef Stauffer

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Josef Stauffer (born March 19, 1817 in Großweikersdorf ; † October 13, 1894 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and civil engineer .

Life

Josef Stauffer was the oldest of ten children of a master mason and farmer. The family was well off and had lived in Großweikersdorf for generations. The great-grandfather was already a master bricklayer here, so it was obvious that Josef Stauffer also completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and worked in Vienna as a bricklayer, foreman and draftsman from the beginning of the 1830s. In addition to his professional activity, he continued his education, attended drawing courses and completed an internship with Eduard Frauenfeld senior. and another with the builder Jakob Hainz . From 1833 to 1834 he attended the engraving school and from 1844 to 1846 the architecture school of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

In 1839 he finally decided to study at the Polytechnic , but did not end his practical work. After studying at the Polytechnic, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1845 , where he studied architecture with Peter von Nobile , August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll .

From 1845 to 1887 he was in charge of the "Freiherrliche Sina'schen Baukanzley", which was responsible for maintaining the real estate of the Sina family as well as for new planning and its execution. In this function he worked, among other things, on the house "Zum Weisse Adler" in the 3rd district of Vienna , which was built in 1858/59 by the builder Eduard Frauenfeld and in which the design of the facades follows the curved course of the street.

Josef Stauffer built the Palais Sina in 1859/60 according to plans by Theophil Hansen and in 1871 redesigned the Palais Archduke Carl for the Sina family . Stauffer built factories, water and road structures on the Sima family estates in Bohemia , Moravia , Slovakia and Hungary , and built glass and greenhouses in Rappoltenkirchen (today the municipality of Sieghartskirchen ) and Eichhorn ( Veverská Bítýška ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Stauffer in the Architekturlexikon 1770 to 1945 , accessed on July 16, 2017
  2. ↑ Josef Stauffer in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon , accessed on January 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Stauffer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Großweikersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1894
Place of death Vienna