Valentin Teirich

Valentin Teirich (born August 23, 1844 in Vienna ; † February 8, 1876 ​​there ) was an Austrian architect and art writer.

life and work

Valentin Teirich was the son of the director of a Viennese high school. After completing high school or secondary school, he attended the technical university in Vienna, which he left at the age of nineteen in 1869 in order to be accepted into the Vienna Academy and become a student of the architect Friedrich von Schmidt .

At the age of 21 he received a travel grant, which he used for a trip to Italy. In order to expand his artistic outlook, he stayed in Italy several times, preferring Rome, Florence and Venice. As a result of these stays in Italy, Teirich's preference for the forms of the Renaissance matured - originally geared towards the Gothic ideal. To complete his knowledge, especially of the phenomena of the German Renaissance, he made frequent trips that took him through all of Austria, southern and northern Germany to Holland and Belgium.

A visit to the Paris World Exhibition (1867) and a trip to England undertaken the following year served to widen his horizons considerably and to give his artistic imagination new ideas. This explains why his first major work on “the modern direction in the bronze and furniture industry according to perceptions at the last world exhibition” (Vienna 1868) attracted general attention in specialist circles. In 1868, Valentin Teirich was appointed lecturer at the newly founded School of Applied Arts for "Perspective, shadow theory and projection theory" after he had been awarded the title of draftsman by the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry since 1867 .

Admitted to the preparatory school as a teacher in 1870, he received the title of professor as early as 1871, whereupon on February 15 he was officially appointed full professor at the preparatory school. Now his work appeared in the field of applied arts literature. As a result of his repeated studies in Italy he left a magnificent work in 1871 under the title: “The ornaments from the heyday of the Italian Renaissance. Original recordings of the most exquisite works in wood mosaic (inlays) ”appear, as a side piece of which the work on“ Inlaid marble ornaments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy ”was published in 1874. Both publications were received extremely favorably by the critics. Among the arts and crafts works Teirichs needs to be shown at the exhibition of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in 1872 and commissioned by the Emperor his design be mentioned an art barrier in the first place, I Franz Joseph was made.

As early as March 1873, the first symptoms of a chest ailment appeared in him, which more and more prevented him from practicing his teaching profession. He died at the age of 32 in Vienna on February 8, 1876.

literature

• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Teirich, Valentin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 550-552.