Oskar Pichler

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Institute for the Insane and Epileptic , 1859–63

Ernst Oskar Wunibald Pichler (born September 17, 1826 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 31, 1865 ibid) was a German architect .

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Oskar Pichler attended the trade school in Frankfurt am Main and the architecture class at the Frankfurt Städelschule . As a journeyman bricklayer, he traveled through southern Germany and Austria from 1845; He was able to gain initial experience in Baden, Munich, Linz and Vienna.

In 1849 he returned to Frankfurt and founded his own office in 1852, from which he initially directed work on residential buildings, commercial buildings and smaller villas, such as B. the Villa Keßler on Bockenheimer Landstrasse and also the publishing house of the Villa Schott in Mainz .

In 1856 Pichler won the competition for a new building for the institute for the insane and epileptic . In the course of further planning he undertook trips to existing insane asylums, including Great Britain and France, together with the head doctor Heinrich Hoffmann . In the years 1859 to 1863 , the modern institution was built in the neo-Gothic style on the site of the Affenstein, a hill to the west of what was then the Frankfurt district.

This was followed by the state insane asylum in Hildburghausen (1862–1866) and posthumously the Senckenberg community hospital in Frankfurt am Main (1870–1874 according to Pichler's plans). Further competition successes and prizes for Pichler were the Frankfurter Prison (not executed), a first prize for the Schützenhalle Frankfurt (1861), second prizes for the town hall in Innsbruck (1862), the building for the United Grand Ducal Collections in Karlsruhe (1863), the Volkshalle Linz (1863) and the chamber building in The Hague (1865), fourteen villa designs for the Grand Duke of Weimar (1861). In the spring of 1865 Pichler made a trip to The Hague, where he caught a cold from the damp spring weather and died in Frankfurt in May 1865.

Pichler's daughter Karoline (1855–1923) worked as a music historian and published the history of music in Frankfurt am Main from the beginning of the 14th to the beginning of the 18th century . She was married to the art theorist Veit Valentin (1842–1900). Her son Veit Valentin , Oskar Pichler's grandson, one of the few democratically-minded German historians before 1945, wrote the most extensive study to date on the revolution of 1848/1849 , including biographies about Friedrich II of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck .

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SURNAME Pichler, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichler, Ernst Oskar Wunibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1865
Place of death Frankfurt am Main