Václav Weinzettl

Former synagogue in Königgrätz, opened in 1905

Václav Weinzettl (born January 4, 1862 in Stráž nad Nežárkou , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † April 24, 1930 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was an architect and director of a stone processing school in Bohemia.

Life

After graduating from high school , Weinzettl studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) from 1882 to 1887 .

His main professional activity was at the sculpture and stonemason school of Hořice v Podkrkonoší (Horschitz) near Königgrätz in East Bohemia, where Weinzettl was professor from September 1, 1890 to February 28, 1895 and from March 1, 1897 to April 22, 1929 taught. He was director of this school from June 1, 1904 until his retirement. He was the successor to office of Vilém Dokoupil . Both were able to exert a formative influence on the development of the school at the beginning of the 20th century.

Since 1905 he was also the technical assistant to the Central Society for the Preservation of War Monuments from 1866 in Bohemia ( Ústřední spolek pro udržování vojenských pomníků z roku 1866 v Čechách ), which had been established after the Austro-Prussian War , and from 1908 director of the Industrial museum in the Krkonoše foothills in Hořice v Podkrkonoší. In the same year, as a branch of the museum, he set up a gallery of sculptures with a collection of contemporary sculpture, which has since been used by the technical school, especially in the context of events. A later gallery is located in Hořice behind the Smetana Park on Gothard Mountain.

The cultural heritage he created consists mostly of monuments and some buildings. His works are evidence of Art Nouveau architecture in Bohemia.

Selected Works

Monument "Battery of the Dead" ( Baterie mrtvých ) in Chlum (Všestary) near Hradec Králové , erected in 1893

Monument to King Albert of Saxony in Probluz / CZ

• Draft for the monument “Battery of the Dead” ( Baterie mrtvých ) in Chlum (Všestary) for the Battle of Königgrätz (1866), 1893
• Construction management in the area of ​​the family property of Emperor Franz Joseph I in Vienna, 1895–1897
• Memorial for the 74th Austrian Infantry Regiment near Horní Přím (design: together with Dokoupil), 1894
• Monument to the Battle of Kolín (1757) near Křečhoř , together with the sculptor Mořic Černil , 1899
• Draft of the overall plan and two pavilions ( Krkonošský / Giant Mountains , Sochařství a kamictví / sculptors and stonemasons ) for the Northeast Bohemian Exhibition in 1903, Hořice v Podkrkonoší, 1903
• Meteorological column in Hořice v Podkrkonoší, 1903 (removed during sewer and paving work in 1950)
• Central memorial cross in Nový Bydžov (design: wine list), 1902
• Obelisk in memory of František Ladislav Rieger , Hořice v Podkrkonoší, 1903–1907
• Monument with a bust for King Albert of Saxony in Probluz (design: Weinzettl, execution: Karl Ludwig Legrain , František Vondráček ), 1904
• New synagogue in Königgrätz, 1904–1905
• Ossuary Kbelnice in Brada-Rybníček 1904-1906
• Grave complex of the Schlick (Šlik) family in Veliš , 1926

literature

• Alois Jilemnický: Kámen jako událost . Hradec Králové (Panorama) 1984, p. 421
• Petr Gláser: Václav Weinzettl, architect vojenských pomníků (1862-1930) . In: Historie a vojenství, 2002, issue 4. Časopis Historického ústavu armády České republiky. Praha (Historický ústav Armády České republiky) 2002

Web links

Commons : Václav Weinzettl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature and other media by and about Václav Weinzettl in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Gallery for sculptures (Czech text)
• Brief description of the stonemason school (Czech text)
• Illustration and description of the meteorological column (Czech text)
• All Hail Stone (PDF; 2.0 MB) on pages 20–23 (English)