Victor Luntz

Victor Luntz , (born March 8, 1840 Ybbs , Lower Austria ; † October 12, 1903 Vienna ), was an architect and professor of architecture in Vienna.

After studying at the Technical University at the Academy of Fine Arts, Luntz was a student of the builders of the kk Hofoper on the Ringstrasse , August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll , and later he worked in Friedrich von Schmidt's studio on the construction of the new Vienna City Hall , also on the Ringstrasse, with. In 1862 he was awarded the Gundel Prize .

In 1874 he married Auguste Felicitas Wielemans, daughter of the Justizpalast architect Alexander Wielemans , who was also working in Schmidt's studio at the time. In 1885 he succeeded Heinrich von Ferstel (who designed, among other things, the Votive Church , the Museum of Applied Arts and the main university building , all three on the Ringstrasse) at a chair at the Technical University. From 1892 until his death he was head professor at a special school for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Francis of Assisi Church

Not entrusted with such prominent commissions as the architects mentioned in his environment, Luntz was able to design the Franz-von-Assisi-Kirche on the Danube in the fin de siècle , which due to its monumentality still forms an important part of the skyline of Vienna on the Danube. His list of works includes other church buildings in Vienna and extensive restoration and expansion work on the Gothic sacred buildings Maria am Gestade and Minoritenkirche in the city center.

Victor Luntz lived in Josefstadt , Vienna's 8th district, at Florianigasse 39. His grave, originally in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof , is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 33E, row 10, grave 12).

In 1920 the Luntzgasse in Vienna- Brigittenau (20th district) was named after him.

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995 ( ISBN 3-218-00546-9 ). P. 116 f.
• Victor Luntz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 370.

Web links

Commons : Victor Luntz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Victor Luntz. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Entry on Victor Luntz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )