Max Fleischer (architect)

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Max Fleischer
Portrait bust of Max Fleischer at the Vienna City Hall

Max Fleischer (born March 29, 1841 in Prostějov , Moravia , Austrian Empire ; died December 8, 1905 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Max Fleischer initially studied at the Technical University of Vienna and moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1863 . Here Fleischer learned from August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll . After completing his training, Fleischer took a position in the architectural office of the town hall builder Friedrich von Schmidt and was thus involved in the construction of the Vienna town hall ; His head is therefore shown to the right of the main entrance to the so-called Volkshalle. Fleischer started his own business in 1887. Fleischer became known as the planner of three neo-Gothic synagogues in Vienna and other Jewish places of worship in Budweis and Pilgrams . In addition, Fleischer created other prayer houses in other styles in Lundenburg , Krems and Nikolsburg . Fleischer often chose Gothic stylistic elements in order to emphasize the classification of Judaism in bourgeois cultural society. Other works by Fleischer were grave monuments for Adolf Fischhof and Salomon Sulzer and the funeral hall in Gliwice .

Fleischer was a member of the Viennese Bauhütte from 1865, of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects from 1870, of the Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna ( Künstlerhaus ) from 1871 and co-initiator of the Society for the Collection of Jewish Cultural Assets, which led to the founding of the Jewish Museum in 1895 . Fleischer received the citizenship of the city of Vienna in 1883, was awarded the golden cross of merit with the crown in the same year and was appointed building officer in 1904.

The architect Johann Miedel (1860–1945) was trained and later shaped as a synagogue builder by Max Fleischer. Miedel therefore also completed some commissioned work that Fleischer had begun (Synagogue Jewish Cemetery in Brno) and took over the Vienna studio after his death.

Most of his works were destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938 . In Vienna, only the former patient synagogue of the old general hospital has survived as a facade. Today the site belongs to the University of Vienna , the patient synagogue is now the art object "Denk-Mal Marpe Lanefesh".

On November 20, 2008, a memorial plaque was unveiled at Neustiftgasse 64 in Vienna's 7th district in memory of Max Fleischer .

Buildings

Israelite girls' orphanage in Ruthgasse (1889-1891)

literature

  • Fleischer Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 328.
  • Bob Martens: Virtual reconstruction of three synagogues by Max Fleischer in Vienna. In: David. Issue No. 74, September 2007 [1]
  • Niessner, Georg; Schilling, Peter: Virtual reconstruction of three synagogues in Vienna by Max Fleischer. Schmalzhofgasse 3, Vienna VI, Neudeggergasse 12, Vienna VIII, Müllnergasse 21, Vienna IX. Dipl.-Arb. Vienna 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation: Fleischer, Max. 2003, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ DENK-MAL Marpe Lanefesch - Former Jewish prayer house in the Old General Hospital . Retrieved October 17, 2015.
  3. ^ Robert Streibel : The Krems Synagogue - A building by the architect Max Fleischer , PPP 2008.
  4. ^ Nová synagoga - demolished in 1986

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personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Prostějov , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1905
Place of death Vienna