Julius Hügler

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Julius Hügler, around 1900

Julius Hügler is a chamber jeweler in Vienna . The old shop was at Freisingergasse 4 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt .

history

The gold, silver and jewelery trade was originally started from 1875 to 1888 by Ferdinand Czermak and Julius Hügler sen. guided. Czermak finally left the company, Hügler remained the owner. The company was now called Julius Hügler, before. F. Czermak & Hügler . Julius Hügler Sr. was appointed supplier to the imperial and royal court in 1899 .

On the occasion of an exhibition in the Rotunda in Vienna , the architect Adolf Loos describes Hügler's products, which were also on display at exhibitions, as “not much, but very well chosen”.

His two sons Julius jun. (* 1878) and Heinrich (* 1885) joined their father’s company as partners after completing their apprenticeship in 1908. Customers included the highest circles and members of the imperial court. In 1913 the Hügler brothers successfully applied for the title of purveyor to the imperial court. At that time the annual turnover was around 500,000 crowns .

Branch Freisingergasse 4 in Oppenheimer's house in Vienna I.
closed branch at the Hotel Badeschloss in Bad Gastein, 2012

Hügler operated a branch in the Hotel Bristol building as well as branches in Salzburg, Badgastein and Rio de Janeiro . Before the Second World War , numerous manned showcases were kept in large hotels, for example in Berlin , Karlsbad and Cairo . The branch in Badgastein was opposite the Hotel Straubinger. It was set up by the architect Hans Prutscher between 1924 and 1925 .

From 2002 the Hügler brand, which had also adorned Soraya , the second wife of the Shah of Persia in the 1950s, was inactive, and since 2017 the great-great-grandson of the company founder, the master goldsmith Franziskus Amazonas Kriegs-Au (born July 6, 1985) has been running the jeweler in the fifth generation. The new location was Habsburgergasse 9 in mid-May 2019 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Hügler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Loos: Adolf Loos - Die Schriften 1897 to 1900. Adolf Opel, 2004, p. 78 , accessed on January 1, 2009 : “Julius Hügler brings jewels, gold and silver goods in an elegant display case. Not much, but very well chosen. "
  2. ↑ Markus Peherstorfer: The silence of the decay of Bad Gastein. In: The Standard . July 12, 2009, accessed on January 1, 2010 : "Where the noblest jewelers and couturiers once operated their branches for upscale summer visitors, nobody stands still."
  3. ^ Petra Schumann: Hans Prutscher. In: Architects Lexicon. Architekturzentrum Wien, August 18, 2008, accessed on January 1, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Tina Laske: Masterpiece Collection. A historic appearance. Craftsmanship in the New Residence. In: Krone. from April 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ https://diepresse.com/home/schaufenster/salon/5346533/Sehnsuchtsort-Bad-Gastein_Eine-schmucke-Liebeserklaerung
  6. ↑ https://www.meisterstrasse.com/de/huegler
  7. ↑ Anja Neuning: Store Opening: jeweler Julius Hügler. In: Österreichische Textilzeitung. (May 21, 2019).

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 34 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  E