Ludwig Baumann (architect)

Bust of Ludwig Baumann in Berndorf

Ludwig Baumann (born May 11, 1853 in Seibersdorf Castle near Troppau in Austrian Silesia ; † February 6, 1936 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Due to an upper-class family environment, the father was a civil engineer, Baumann was able to study at the Polytechnic Zurich . After completing his architecture studies (1870–1874), he worked for the Wienerberger Ziegelfabriks- und Bau-Gesellschaft from 1876, and for Viktor Rumpelmayer from 1879 to 1882 . From 1882 he shared an office with Emil Bressler . From 1888 he became an architect highly valued by the upper middle class and aristocracy of the Danube monarchy . In particular, he enjoyed the favor and trust of Archduke Franz Ferdinand . In 1904 he founded the Central Association of Architects together with Hermann Helmer .

Baumann, initially influenced by the international neo-renaissance through his studies in Zurich ( Gottfried Semper ) , changed from around 1900 to a conservative main representative of the neo- baroque as the Austrian "imperial style". In 1907 he was appointed construction manager for the New Hofburg , replacing Friedrich Ohmann . Between 1909 and 1913, the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry was erected under his leadership as the last monumental building on the Ringstrasse. Baumann is also considered the designer of many buildings in the Lower Austrian town of Berndorf when it was significantly expanded under Arthur Krupp .

In 1929, still involved in various planning projects, Baumann was hit by a bus near the Rochuskirche . The injuries sustained in the process could no longer heal, and Ludwig Baumann spent the last three years of his life in a wheelchair. His honorary grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 B, no. 51).

Works (selection)

• Berndorf in Lower Austria, urban planning (from 1880s)
• Berndorf, Berndorf Hall School (1896)
• Paris, World Exhibition , Austrian Imperial House (1900)
• Vienna ice skating club (1900)
• Vienna, Imperial and Royal Academy for Oriental Languages , today the Embassy of the United States in Vienna (1902)
• Vienna, Ministry of War (1908–1910)
• Vienna, Hofburg , new building of the ballroom wing (from 1910)
• Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus and Akademietheater , together with Fellner & Helmer (1911–1913)
• Rome, Palazzetto Venezia, reconstruction (1909/10)

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  Former Ministry of War, Vienna

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  Former kk consular academy , Vienna

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  Akademietheater and Konzerthaus (together with Fellner & Helmer; 1911–1913)

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  Villa Pazelt (1895), (Bad) Vöslau  

Publications

• Building description of the Olympion . Publishing house of the ice skating club, Vienna 1877, ÖNB .
• -, Emil Bressler, Friedrich Ohmann: Baroque. A collection of ceilings, cartouches, consoles, grilles, furniture, vases, stoves, ornaments, interiors ee. etc., mostly in imperial castles, churches, monasteries and other monumental buildings in Austria from the epoch Leopold I to Maria Theresa . Schroll, Vienna 1886, OBV .
• Explanatory report on the drafts for a general regulatory plan for the entire municipal area of ​​Vienna . Friedrich Jasper, Vienna 1893, ÖNB .
• Explanatory report on the drafts for a general regulatory plan for the entire municipal area of ​​Vienna . Schroll, Vienna 1894, ÖNB .
• Explanations of the competition project for the use of the rotunda in the exhibition planned for 1898 . Friedrich Jasper, Vienna 1896, ÖNB .
• The Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Lower Austria in Vienna . In: The Architect. Viennese monthly books for construction and decorative arts . Volume 14.1908. Schroll, Vienna 1908, pp. 12-14, OBV . - text online. ( ANNO ).
• My résumé and my job . Rosenbaum, Vienna 1931, OBV .

Awards, honors

• Order of the Iron Crown III. Class, around 1900
• Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor , 1901
• Commander's Cross with Star of the Franz Joseph Order , 1904

literature

• Baumann, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 78-79 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Rudolf Kolowrath: Ludwig Baumann. Architecture between baroque and art nouveau . Compress-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-06284-4 .
• Wolfgang Czerny: Baumann, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , pp. 590 f.
• Cäcilia Bischoff: Ludwig Baumann (1853–1936). Architect in Vienna. Style pluralism as an economic strategy . Dissertation. University of Bonn 2003, OBV , DNB .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Baumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ludwig Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Baumann. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• I. Scheidl:  Baumann, Ludwig . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hofrat Ludwig Baumann †. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, February 7, 1936, p. 4, top center. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ^ Master architect Hofrat Baumann has died. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , Morgenblatt, February 7, 1936, p. 4, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Ludwig Baumann . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on October 18, 2013.
4. ↑ Illustration from: The architect. Viennese monthly books for building and decorative arts . Volume 3.1897. Schroll, Vienna 1897, OBV , illustrated part, p. 16.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Ludwig Baumann (...) Awards and offices . In: architektenlexikon.at , May 19, 2010.

Remarks

1. ↑ Address of the property: Bad Vöslau , Herrmanngasse 3 or Hochstraße 20.