Ballhaus restaurant

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The Ballhaus restaurant was a restaurant in the 1st district of Vienna in the Amalienburg and the first commissioned work by Hermann Czech .

founding

According to an anecdote by Hermann Czech, his father Josef Czech was offered a lease of the restaurant at Schauflergasse 1 as a thank you for his active help in the fire of the police barracks in Rossauer Lände and operated it as a police canteen from 1946, in which Hermann Czech also helped out. It was later expanded into an open restaurant under the name "Restaurant Hofburg".

Redesign 1961–62

The restaurant was designed by Hermann Czech, Wolfgang Mistelbauer and Reinald Nohal from 1961 to 1962. It is Hermann Czech's first commissioned work. Templates by Josef Hoffmann were used for the design of the interior : the wallpapers of the vaulted rooms consisted of various two-tone flower patterns according to Hoffmann (black-white, red-yellow and blue-yellow), the armchairs according to a design by Hoffmann. The office grid lights created a uniformly (unusually) bright lighting of the rooms without dazzling. According to Czech, he was referring to the lighting mood in the film Jules and Jim ( François Truffaut , 1962).

reception

In an interview with Wolfgang Kos , Hermann Czech says about the Ballhaus :

“The first restaurant I opened with Mistelbauer and Nohal was for my father, the Ballhaus restaurant. We combined elements from Josef Hoffmann. In and of itself, I was on Loos' side in understanding the conflict between Loos and Hoffmann. But we deliberately opted for decoration, with Hoffmann wallpapers, a Hoffmann fabric and Hoffmann armchairs, from different eras. Hoffmann would never have set up such a restaurant. We wanted to achieve a certain effect with calculated means. Friedrich Achleitner later wrote that the "Ballhaus" even translated methods of collage from literature into architecture. "

- Hermann Czech

Friedrich Achleitner , for whom a third phase of the Viennese reception of modernism or Josef Frank begins with the Ballhaus restaurant , writes:

“The subject of original and replica is addressed indirectly [in the description of the work from March 1963], even the term quotation is used. The method is montage or collage; the architect's work shifts in part from inventing originals to applying them. One could also claim that methods from literature (for example from Brecht or the “ wiener group ”) are adopted into architecture. "

- Friedrich Achleitner

In a letter published in 2016 (November 11, 2006) on Hermann Czech's 70th birthday, Friedrich Kurrent wrote that the "Ballhaus restaurant [...] was the first example of" Viennese mannerism "in architecture after the Second World War" and that the Viennese post-war architecture began with the Ballhaus restaurant (and therefore not with Holleins Retti 1965):

“It wasn't like the publicists and pseudo-architectural historians have been asking for decades that architecture in Vienna only begins again after the war with the Retti von Hollein store. That was in 1965, four years after the Ballhaus [...]. "

- Friedrich Kurrent

literature

  • Elisabeth Grimus: Hermann Czech: Interventions 1962–1984. Local in Vienna. Diploma thesis Univ. Vienna, Vienna 2008 ( online ), p. 5.
  • Friedrich Kurrent: "Hermann Czech", in this: Some projects, architectural texts and the like , Müry Salzmann Verlag: Salzburg / Wien 2016, pp. 43–44.
  • Eva Kuß: Hermann Czech and the shimmer of reality. Dissertation Univ. for applied arts, Vienna 2014, p. 58.
  • Eva Kuss: Hermann Czech. Architect in Vienna , Zurich, Park Books 2014.
  • "Ballhaus restaurant. Establishment of a pub in the Amalienburg, Vienna 1962", unpublished text from Hermann Czech's archive dated March 1963.
  • Ulrike Spring, Wolfgang Kos, Wolfgang Freitag: In the tavern: a story of Viennese sociability. Wien Museum Karlsplatz, April 19 - September 23, 2007 , Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2007, pp. 54–63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Eva Kuß: Hermann Czech and the shimmer of reality . Dissertation Univ. for applied arts, Vienna 2014, p. 24-25 . Hermann Czech and Wolfgang Kos: In the tavern: a history of Viennese sociability. [Exhibition, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, April 19 - September 23, 2007] . Ed .: Ulrike Spring, Wolfgang Kos, Wolfgang Freitag. Czernin, Vienna 2007, p. 55 .
  2. ^ Cf. Elisabeth Grimus: Hermann Czech: Interventions 1962–1984. Local in Vienna . Diploma thesis Univ. Vienna, Vienna 2008, p. 5 , urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-29341.84395.661364-2 ( univie.ac.at ).
  3. ↑ Cf. Eva Kuß: Hermann Czech and the shimmer of reality . Dissertation Univ. for applied arts, Vienna 2014, p. 58 (published as a book under the title "Hermann Czech. Architect in Vienna" by Park Books 2018).
  4. ^ Hermann Czech and Wolfgang Kos: In the tavern: a history of Viennese sociability. [Exhibition, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, April 19 - September 23, 2007] . Ed .: Ulrike Spring, Wolfgang Kos, Wolfgang Freitag. Czernin, Vienna 2007, p. 55 . See also the interview by Christoph Mayr Fingerle with Hermann Czech: “Conversation in the Weinpunkt Kaltern” (Kaltern December 29, 2005 ), online: mayrfingerle.com ( Memento from July 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Achleitner, Friedrich: Frank's continued work in the newer Viennese architecture . To build, no. 10 . Austrian Society for Architecture, 1986, ISSN  0256-2529 , p. 121–132, here p. 126 .
  6. ↑ Kurrent, Friedrich: Some projects, architecture texts and the like . Muery Salzmann, Salzburg; Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99014-141-0 , pp. 43–44, here p. 44 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 53.2 ″  E