Wilhelm Holzbauer

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Wilhelm Holzbauer (1981)

Wilhelm Holzbauer (born September 3, 1930 in Itzling ; † June 15, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Wilhelm Holzbauer was born in Itzling (at that time still an independent municipality, from 1939 part of Salzburg ). He attended the Salzburg trade school from 1945 to 1949 and then studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Clemens Holzmeister . After joining “ Working Group 4 ” , Holzbauer studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge ( United States ) from 1956 to 1957 . He then taught as a visiting professor in Manitoba ( Canada ) and at Yale University in New Haven , United States, until 1959 .

In 1964 he finally opened an architectural office in Vienna, followed by another in Amsterdam in 1969 . Holzbauer continued his teaching activities between 1977 and 1998 as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , from 1987 to 1991 he was also the rector .

From 1979 to 1989, Holzbauer enjoyed the small restaurant Mattes in Schönlaterngasse in Vienna, where the chefs Richard Hedrich, Reinhard Gerer and Walter Bauer cooked one after the other . It was the first award-winning restaurant in Vienna .

He had three children from his first marriage to Ursula Holzbauer and a daughter from his second marriage to the Japanese Mari Izumi-Holzbauer.

Holzbauer was one of the survivors of the sinking of the Andrea Doria , on whose board he went to the USA in 1956 with a Fulbright scholarship . Holzbauer's last studio was in the 6th district of Vienna, Mariahilf , Haydngasse 11–13.

Act

Architecture critics see Holzbauer as “a representative of a 'pragmatic' architecture with monumental symbolism, physiognomic conciseness and mannerist exaggeration”, Holzbauer sees himself as “a classic architect who always tries to adapt to the situation, nothing of the different currents of modernity and postmodernism and yet something of everything ”, in an architecture“ whose roots lie in a pragmatic attitude and not in an ideological one. ”

Holzbauer was able to quickly position itself in public with important orders for private and public clients. He significantly influenced the Viennese cityscape through his planning of the pedestrian zone in Kärntner Strasse as well as through the designs for the Vienna underground trains , which have also received international awards. Holzbauer repeatedly made a name for himself through interviews and other media appearances. The architecture competition for the renovation of the Kleiner Festspielhaus in Salzburg, which Holzbauer had already suggested over the years and had submitted plans for it, was also a topic of conversation . Holzbauer also referred to his familiarity with Holzmeister's ideas. After violent protests by Holzbauer, who came second in the competition, there was finally a collaboration with the winner, the working group Herman & Valentiny and Wimmer Zaic Architects, with Holzbauer.

In 1999, Holzbauer designed the set for the new production of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow for the Vienna State Opera (directed by Andrei Şerban , conductor John Eliot Gardiner ), and he also helped to design the costumes.

Selected Works

The Landhaus in Bregenz , seat of the Vorarlberg regional government
Gasometer  D inside

Publications

  • Holzbauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects 1953–85 , 1985
  • Holzbauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects 1985–90 , 1990
  • Achleitner, Friedrich, Holzbauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects. Stuttgart 1995
  • Holzbauer, Wilhelm: Works from the last 5 years of the past millennium. Exhibition catalog, University of Applied Arts. Vienna 2000

literature

  • August Sarnitz (Ed.): Three Viennese architects: Wilhelm Holzbauer, Gustav Peichl , Roland Rainer , catalog for the exhibition: Three Viennese architects , 2nd, corrected edition. Edition Tusch, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85063-148-6 .

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Holzbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b My district : My Salzburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 5, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tvthek.orf.at  
  2. ^ Orf.at: Architect Wilhelm Holzbauer died . Article dated June 15, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ profil.at: The chicken is plucked
  4. ^ Oe24.at: Architects private - that's how professionals live
  5. ↑ Profile: Contemporary History: All right! . Article dated July 22, 2006, accessed August 5, 2018.
  6. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Holzbauer: "This is an attack on the city" . Article dated May 31, 2012, accessed August 5, 2018.
  7. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: "Zeitzeugen": Interview with architect Wilhelm Holzbauer . Article dated May 31, 2012, accessed August 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ Quote changed: “I would call myself one of the few classic architects. I always try to adapt to the situation, which has resulted in many different architectural structures. Today there are directions like postmodernism and minimalism. I am none of this and yet something of everything. ”Wilhelm Holzbauer, in: What does ... Wilhelm Holzbauer actually do . Interview. ECHO Salzburg online, August 5, 2011
  9. ↑ quoted from Ulrike Springer. From the avant-garde to architecture . In: RWR 4/2009, p. 18, section Pragmatic and monumental - Wilhelm Holzbauer ( online , austrians.org)
  10. ↑ these several other projects, see Projects , agu.at
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Holzbauer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzling
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2019
Place of death Vienna