Wilhelm Stigler
Wilhelm "Willi" Stigler (born May 3, 1903 in Steyr , † March 29, 1976 in Bad Hall ) was an Austrian architect who mainly worked in Innsbruck .
Life
Wilhelm Stigler was born in Steyr in 1903 as the son of the city pharmacist Wilhelm Stigler and his wife Karolina, nee. Wurianek, born. In 1908 the family moved to Mühlau near Innsbruck , where he attended elementary school from 1909. From 1913 he attended the secondary school on Adolf-Pichler-Platz in Innsbruck, which he left after the 5th grade. He continued school in Dornbirn and graduated from there in 1921 .
From 1921 to 1925 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . His teachers included Friedrich von Thiersch , German Bestelmeyer , Hermann Buchert , Hubert Knackfuss and Alwin Seifert . During his studies he worked as an intern with Clemens Holzmeister , Willibald Braun and Karl Paulmichl . His diploma, acquired in 1925, was only nostrified in 1931 after additional exams at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria .
Even during his studies, Stigler took part in competitions , and immediately after graduating he founded his own office in 1926 at the age of 23, which he ran initially in his parents' house in Mühlau, from 1929 on Claudiaplatz and from 1931 on Erzherzog-Eugen-Straße in Saggen . He received his first orders through family and neighborly relationships in Mühlau, and soon he was busy with orders for residential and industrial buildings. In the competition for the construction of the Theresienkirche on the Hungerburg, his design was awarded first prize, but was not implemented.
In October 1927 he married Martha Bohle from Dornbirn, the couple had children Wilhelm-Theodor (* 1929) and Hildegard (* 1935).
Wilhelm Stigler turned to National Socialism at an early age , becoming a member of the SS in 1931 and of the NSDAP, which was not yet banned in Austria at the time, in 1932 . At the beginning of the Second World War , he was briefly drafted twice, after which he and his employees were released to plan “war-related buildings”. He had numerous orders, in particular for residential construction in connection with the South Tyrolean option and construction projects for the armaments industry. At times he had offices in Innsbruck, Schwaz and Telfs in order to handle the orders.
After the war, Stigler was classified as "incriminated", arrested and sentenced. From the end of November 1945 he was interned in the Reichenau camp, then in the Oradour camp near Schwaz and finally in the Ziegelstadl in Innsbruck. After 23 months, he was released in autumn 1947. From February 1946, as a prisoner, he and the builder Alfred Stegner planned to rebuild the village of Grins, which had been destroyed by fire . In view of the threat of an occupational ban, he submitted a petition for clemency to Federal President Karl Renner in 1949 , which was granted. After passing the exam, he was qualified as a civil engineer in 1950. In 1957 he got the confiscated office and apartment back.
In 1954 he took his son Willi Stigler Jr., who had studied in Graz , into the office, in 1959 they became partners, and from 1964 the office was named Stigler and Stigler . The daughter-in-law Christl, also a graduate of the Graz University of Technology, also entered the office. The office became an important training center for Tyrolean architects, and the interns included Horst Parson and Ekkehard Hörmann .
Ernst Neufert allegedly proposed Stigler in 1966 as a successor to his chair at the Technical University of Darmstadt , to which Günter Behnisch was appointed. In 1966 Stigler was given the professional title of building officer h. c. awarded, in 1972 the professional title of professor . On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1973, his works were exhibited in the Tyrolean Art Pavilion . After his death in 1976 Willi jun. and Christl Stigler continued the Stigler & Stigler office until 2004.
architecture
Along with Lois Welzenbacher , Clemens Holzmeister, Franz Baumann and Siegfried Mazagg, Willi Stigler is one of the most important architects of the 20th century in Tyrol. His main creative period was the interwar period. He was involved in over 600 projects, ranging from furniture and lighting designs to residential, industrial and commercial construction, to cable car construction and settlement planning. In his architecture he dealt with the domestic building tradition as well as with the international currents of modern architecture.
Stigler's first works were mostly cubic buildings on conventional floor plans. His role models were the Munich and Stuttgart schools , especially German Bestelmeyer and Paul Schmitthenner . Some of his works are characterized by expressionist elements and deliberately used asymmetries. Some buildings show influences from classical modernism ( Robert Vorhoelzer , Lois Welzenbacher).
Works
- Mühlau cemetery and cemetery chapel , 1926
- War memorial chapel on Mühlauer Hauptplatz, 1926
- Peer House, Mühlau, 1926–1927
- House Dr. Posch, Mühlau, 1927–1928
- Car garage, Mühlau, 1927–1928 (today used by fire brigade and water rescue services; listed )
- Master houses Franz Baur's Sons AG, Arzl , 1928–1929
- Atelier Bodner, Mühlau, 1929
- Mühlau village fountain, 1929
- Baur-Foradori loden factory, Reichenau , 1929–1930
- The porter and residential building of the Rauch art mill in Innsbruck, 1930
- House Franz Baur's sons in Innsbruck- Saggen , 1931
- Kremser House, Mühlau, 1931
- Design for the Theresienkirche on the Hungerburg, 1931
- Design for the Wagner University Book Printing Company in Innsbruck, 1932–1933
- House Pischl, Telfs, 1934–1935
- Landhaus Bundsmann, Igls , 1935
- Brunner House, Schwaz, 1936
- Baur residential building, Blasius-Hueber-Strasse, Innsbruck, 1936–1937
- Villa Pischl on the Hungerburg , 1936–1937
- Villa Rhomberg, Innsbruck, 1936–1939
- Attlmayr House, Hötting, 1937–1939
- Arch House in Vill , 1937–1940
- Double elementary school (today: Landesberufsschule), Innsbruck-Wilten, 1938–1939
- South Tyrolean settlement in Kematen in Tyrol (with Helmut Erdle ), 1942
- Reconstruction of Grins , 1946
- Upper and lower station of the Galzigbahn , 1952
- Ridge and summit station of the Vallugabahn in St. Anton am Arlberg, 1951–1957
- Expansion of the market hall in Innsbruck, 1959
- Rhombergpassage, Innsbruck (with Willi Stigler jun.), 1959–1961
- Inn power station Prutz, 1961
- Prof. Defant's house on the Hungerburg, 1972
literature
- Juliane Mayer: The architect Wilhelm Stigler Sen. 1903–1976. Volume 1: New studies on the architecture of Tyrolean modernism. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7065-5377-3 .
- Juliane Mayer: The architect Wilhelm Stigler Sen. 1903–1976. Volume 2: Annotated catalog raisonné from the interwar period. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7091-1455-1 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Stigler Sr. in the archive for architecture of the University of Innsbruck
Individual evidence
- ↑ exhibition WILLI STIGLER, architecture (1925-1972) . In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck, No. 4, 1973, p. 16 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Felmayer, Wiesauer: War memorial chapel on Mühlauer Hauptplatz. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 19, 2015 .
- ^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Culture Department (Ed.): Kulturberichte aus Tirol 2012. 63rd Monument Report. Innsbruck 2012, pp. 24–27 ( PDF; 12 MB )
- ↑ Tyrol Chamber of Commerce, Section of Cable Cars (ed.): Architecture and Cable Cars from Tradition to Modernity. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name on the occasion of the “Tyrolean Cable Car Day 2000” as part of the “Winter Sports Stage” week from March 26th to April 2nd, 2000 on the sunny plateau Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis, Tyrol, Innsbruck 2000, pp. 38–39 ( PDF; 4.6 MB )
- ↑ Christoph Hölz, Klaus Tragbar, Veronika Weiss (Ed.): Architectural Guide Innsbruck . Haymon, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7099-7204-5 , pp. 50 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stigler, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stigler, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steyr |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1976 |
| Place of death | Bad Hall |