Max von Loos

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The Teplitz architect Max von Loos
Former Green high school in Aussig
Former Club house "Lindenhof" in Teplitz-Schönau
Trinity Church in Ústí-Střekov
Expressionist double house in Teplice

Max von Loos (actually Maximilian Franz Loos von Losimfeldt, born March 4, 1858 in Wittingau , † January 5, 1953 in Kötschach ) was a German-Bohemian architect. He came from the Bohemian-Austrian noble family Loos von Losimfeldt and worked in Innsbruck , but especially in Aussig and Teplitz-Schönau in northern Bohemia .

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Max von Loos attended the Unterrealgymnasium and the Oberrealschule in Budweis and completed the architecture school at the Technical University in Vienna from 1875 to 1880 . In 1881/82 he worked for the Fellner & Helmer architecture firm . From 1884 to 1886 he was construction manager for the renovation of the Innsbruck train station , from 1886 to 1889 construction manager for the city of Innsbruck. From 1888/1890 he was a freelance architect in Innsbruck and designed several villas on Siebererstraße in Innsbruck. In the invitation to tender for the savings bank interest houses on Schmerlingstrasse in Innsbruck, he received first prize.

Since 1890 he was the city architect in Aussig, where he married Marie Heller in 1891. Best man was his brother-in-law, the Aussiger architect Carl Rehatschek (1851–1913). After 1895 he opened an architecture office in Teplitz-Schönau. He lived in Teplitz at Masaryk Street No. 971/50, right next to the Olympia cinema (No. 1049/52), which was built by Rudolf Bitzan . In his long professional life he has undergone a unique stylistic development. It started in the style of historicism , which copied the elements of traditional architectural styles (especially from the Renaissance and Baroque periods ). Perhaps the most beautiful example of his work from this period is the "Lindenhof" in Teplitz-Schönau (Lípový dvůr in Teplice). After 1900, Art Nouveau from Vienna was also adopted by the architects in Teplitz. Loos designed several villas, especially in Schönau. The triple villa house (Trojdům) designed by him in Schönau and the Kreuzinger library in Eger (Cheb) were placed under monument protection.

Modern architecture began after the First World War . To this end, Loos created some remarkable buildings in the style of Expressionism and Functionalism . Due to his advanced age during the First Republic , the question arises to what extent he is really the author of the later drafts or whether this work was carried out by his younger colleagues (e.g. the Concordia house or the duplex in the Kollárova street in Teplice).

buildings

  • 1887: Villa in Innsbruck, Siebererstraße 3 (destroyed) and 5
  • 1887–1889: Five apartment buildings in Innsbruck, Schmerlingstrasse 2, 4, 6 (under monument protection ID No. 26873)
  • 1890: Chapel in the former town cemetery in Aussig (Ovčí vrch) (demolished in the 1960s)
  • 1892/93: German grammar school in Aussig, now part of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem , also Green grammar school (Zelená škola), Ústí n. L., Velká Hradební 424/13 (style: historicism)
  • 1892–1894: General Hospital in Aussig, Billrothstraße (Ústí n. L., Pasteurova 9) (demolished)
  • 1896: Villa M. Russ in Teplitz - Teplice, Vrchlického 974/10
  • 1896: Villa R. Hanke in Teplitz - Teplice, Vrchlického 1009/6
  • 1897/98: Lindenhof club house in Teplitz-Schönau, now Lipový dvůr Teplice, Lipová 239/2 (style: neo-renaissance)
  • 1898–1899: Construction of the new church in Nieder-Georgenthal , after the old church was torn down due to mining damage (destroyed in the 1980s)
  • 1899–1902: Rental houses in Teplitz - Teplice, Duchcovská 501/17, 1032/19, 1033/21 and 1069/23
  • 1900: Town house "To the Russian Tsar" on Laube-Platz in Teplitz - Teplice, Laubeho nám. 330 (destroyed), built for Franz Carl Stradal (1847–1901), lawyer and city councilor in Teplitz
  • 1900–1930: Interior design (including repairs) at the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Eichwald , Dubí, Ruská ul. (Under monument protection ÚSKP No. 43071 / 5-2579 )
  • 1903: Trinity Church and rectory in Obersedlitz (Kostel Nejsvětější Trojice Novosedlice), now Ústí-Střekov, Jeseninova
  • 1903: Pavilion of the town brewery of Schönpriesen (Krásné Březno) (temporary construction at the economic and industrial exhibition in Aussig, demolished)
  • 1905: Three villas in Teplice - Trojdům Teplice, Pod Doubravkou 1270/1, 1279/3, 1294/5 (under monument protection ÚSKP no. 43979 / 5-5263 )
  • 1908: Adolf Ehrlich fashion department store in Teplitz - Teplice, 28. října 963/7, now Raiffeisenbank
  • 1908-1910: K. k. State Trade School in Aussig, now Střední průmyslová škola strojní a elektrotechnická (Vocational Middle School for Construction and Electrical Engineering), Ústí n. L., Resslova 210/5
  • 1909: Double villa in Teplice - Teplice, Pod Doubravkou 1462/7 and 2571/9
  • 1909–1911: Kreuzinger library in Eger - Cheb, ul. Obrněné brigády 595/1, named after the entrepreneur Dominik Kreuzinger (born March 21, 1856 in Eger; † April 21, 1903 in Arco) (under monument protection ID no. 103839 )
  • 1910–1917: Reconstruction of the Church of St. Simon and Jude in Zabrušany (Sobrusan), Okres Teplice (under monument protection ÚSKP No. 42303 / 5-2752 )
  • 1911: Rental houses in Teplice - Teplice, Ruská 1086/16, 1501/18 and 1502/20
  • 1912–1914: Neo-Baroque reconstruction of the Imperial Baths in Teplice (Císařské lázně v Teplicích), Teplice, Laubeho náměstí 227/2 (under monument protection ÚSKP No. 43446 / 5-2496 )
  • 1930: Double house in Teplitz - Teplice, Kollárova 1872 / 5–7 (style: Expressionism)
  • 1931: Concordia house of Reichenberger Versicherung Concordia in Teplitz (together with Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge , rebuilt in the 1970s), Teplice, Masarykova 1910 / 27a (style: functionalism)

literature

  • Hanzlík, Jan; Zajoncová, Jana; Hájková, Lenka: Teplice - Architektura moderní doby. 1860–2000 (Teplitz: Architecture of the Modern Age. 1860–2000). Národní památkový ústav, ÚOP Ústí nad Labem, 2016, 360 pages, ISBN 978-80-85036-66-4 .

Web links

Commons : Max von Loos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1979, Ed. Verlag Anton Schroll Vienna and Munich, 1980, pp. 99–100, ISBN 3-7031-0521-6 - Review of the book by Patrick Werkner: Villa architecture of the early days in Innsbruck (dissertation in art history studies of the University of Innsbruck, 1979, No. 116, 238 pp.)
  2. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Teplitz (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  3. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Aussig (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  4. ↑ Patrick Werkner: Villa architecture of the early days in Innsbruck, Art History Studies of the University of Innsbruck, 1979, No. 116 (IV), p. 37
  5. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Aussig (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  6. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Aussig (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  7. ↑ Audioteplice Mühlstraße (accessed on August 23, 2018)
  8. ^ Iva Králová, Jan Rosenauer: Sto let kostela Nejsvětější Trojice ve Střekově 1903-2003 (Hundred Years of Trinity Church in Aussig-Schreckenstein), Město Ústí n. L. a Římskokat. farnost Ústí n. L.-Střekov, 2003 (Czech)
  9. ↑ Hanzlík (2016), p. 139
  10. ↑ Architecture in Aussig - Loos (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  11. ↑ Hanzlík (2016), p. 60
  12. ^ Encyclopedia by Cheb - Dominik Kreuzinger (accessed on August 26, 2018)
  13. ↑ Baths in Teplitz (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
  14. ↑ Architecture in Northern Bohemia - Teplitz (Czech) (accessed on August 7, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Loos, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loos von Losimfeldt, Maximilian Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittingau
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1953
Place of death Kötschach