Otto Hieser

Otto Hieser (1886)

Stephanie Bridge around 1900

Otto Jeezer (* 24. May 1850 in Vienna , † 7. February 1892 in Hallstatt ) was an Austrian architect of Art Nouveau . His works include tenement houses, villas, castles, schools and bridges in the style of historicism and art nouveau.

Life

Villa Hauschka in Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf

Otto Hieser was born in Vienna on May 24, 1850. His father was the architect and high school professor Joseph Hieser. In 1867 he was a member of the committee that prepared the Austrian appearance at the World Exhibition in Paris . Otto Hieser accompanied his father to Paris and stayed there to study at the Académie des Beaux-Arts . Then he returned to Vienna to finish his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts with Theophil von Hansen . Study trips to Italy followed.

After completing his studies, he worked in the studio of the architects Carl Tietz and Ludwig Zettl . From 1873 he worked as a freelance architect, at times together with Ferdinand Wendeler .

Hieser built mainly in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, for example several tenement houses in Vienna, the Villa Harnoncourt (demolished in the 1970s) near the Prater , the Villa Hauschka, today the old people's home of the Confraternity in Pötzleinsdorf , and the Stephanie Bridge (destroyed in 1945 ). He also took part in international competitions, for example in 1883 for the construction of the monument to General Ulysses S. Grant in New York , in the same year for the Odessa Opera House and in 1884 for the Amsterdam Stock Exchange . He liked to include visual artists in his work, but preferred his friend, the sculptor Heinrich Natter .

Hieser suffered a stroke on October 22, 1891, the late effects of which he succumbed a few months later in Hallstatt at the age of 42 . He was married to Maria Moser (1853–1922).

Important structures

The grave chapel of the Hauschka family in the Pötzleinsdorfer cemetery

Hanavský pavilon

• 1873 Participation in the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna.
• 1877 Mr. Coulon's rental house (director of the Pitten paper mill) in Vienna, Gußhausstraße 15.
• 1881 Wilhelm Jungmann & Neffe's business premises in Vienna I., Albertinaplatz 3 (then I., Albrechtsplatz 3).
• 1883 Huebmer house in Pitten
• 1884 The mausoleum of the writer Michael Etienne
• 1884 Wilhelm Coulon Castle in Pitten
• 1884–1886 Stephanie Bridge
• 1885 Villa Hauschka, Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf (later convalescent home of the Confraternität Privatklinik Josefstadt )
• 1885–1886 Aigen Castle in Salzburg was rebuilt
• 1886–1887 Villa Harnoncourt in Vienna
• 1886–1887 Hall construction in Heřmanův Městec Castle
• 1887 Facilities of the Freudenau horse racing track
• 1887 Grave chapel of the Hauschka family, Pötzleinsdorfer Friedhof
• 1890 Hanavský Pavilion for the Prague Jubilee Exhibition in 1891

Publications

• Otto Hieser (Ed.): Address of homage by the Viennese industrial cooperatives for the wedding of His Imperial and Royal Highness the Most Serene Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf, with Her Royal Highness the Most Serene Princess Stefanie of Belgium. Vienna 1881
• Otto Hieser: The Stephanie Bridge over the Danube Canal in Vienna. In: Wochenschrift des Österreichischer Ingenieur und Architekten-Verein, vol. 10, 1885, p. 36f, p. 45f

literature

• Anonymous: architect Otto Hieser. Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung , vol. 9, 1892, p. 207 (obituary)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Architecture Lexicon
2. ↑ pratercottage.at
3. ^ Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung, IX. Year / 1891, Vienna Buildings Album, sheet no.89

Web links

Commons : Otto Hieser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Otto Hieser. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 314.
• Otto Hieser. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Otto Hieser. In: arch INFORM .
• Literature by and about Otto Hieser in the catalog of the German National Library