Otto Eisler

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Otto Eisler (born June 1, 1893 in Bistritz ob Pernstein , Austria-Hungary ; † July 27, 1968 in Brno , ČSSR ) was a Czech architect of Jewish denomination .

Synagogue (Agudat Achim) Brno Skořepka 13

Life

Otto Eisler was born in Bistritz, where his parents owned a small farm. After his father Theodor had died in 1896, his mother Ernestine moved to Brno with five children . Here Eisler attended high school on Antoninska Street (1904-1912) and studied architecture at the German Technical University from 1912 to 1922, with one interruption because of his military service . After brief professional experience in Vienna and in Walter Gropius ' architectural office in Weimar, he opened a garden design office in Brno in 1923.

After the occupation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1939 he was arrested and interned by the Gestapo in Spielberg prison for six weeks . After his release he fled to Norway . When Norway was occupied, he tried to cross the border into Sweden , but was shot and arrested again. From 1940 to 1943 he did forced labor in Norway, was then taken to Auschwitz in 1943 and finally to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he saw the arrival of the American army on April 11, 1945 .

After returning to Brno in 1946, he married his cousin Gertrude Kenderová. He worked independently until 1950, after which he became an employee of the Botanical Garden of the JE Purkyne University in Brno . From 1950 to 1953 he was chairman of the cooperatives for the establishment of the zoological gardens in Brno.

Selected buildings in Brno

  • 1925–1929: Colony of the workers' and salaried building cooperative, Černá Pole (Schwarzfeld), Jugoslávská 23-27,31, Hablíkova 2-12
  • around 1926: Two-family house Dr. Kraus and Director Link, Lipová 39-41
  • around 1928–1929: House, Erbenova 3
  • around 1928–1929: Phoenix office building, 10 Běhounská
  • around 1929: House with small apartments, Mlýnská 25
  • 1929–1930: garden of Villa Stiassny, Hroznová 14
  • 1930: Own villa with garden, Neumannova 10
  • 1930–1932: houses with small apartments, Drobného 24
  • around 1931: house, třída Obránců míru 80
  • 1931: Wittreich office building, Orlí 2
  • around 1931: two-family house, Lipová 15
  • around 1932: House with two apartments, Vinařská 44
  • 1932: Director Böhm's tenement house, Křížkovského 21
  • around 1932: tenement house, Jugoslávská 21
  • around 1933: commercial and residential building, Koliště 29
  • around 1933 tenement house, Botanická 6
  • around 1934–1935: JEPA business and residential building , náměstí Svobody 9
  • 1934–1935: Workers' home, Maloměřice
  • 1934–1935: tenement houses, Novobranská 8-12, Orlí 28
  • 1935–1936: Agudas Achim synagogue , Skořepka 13
  • 1935–1936: Leon Blum's house, Kamenomlýnská 14
  • 1949–1953: garden of the children's hospital, Černopolní 9
  • 1950: Julius Moret house, Barvičova 72

literature

  • The Brno Functionalists - Catalog for an exhibition at the Czech National Museum in Prague, 1985

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Eisler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bystřice nad Pernštejnem (Moravia)
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1968
Place of death Brno