Wilhelm Stiassny

Wilhelm Stiassny (15 October 1842, Pressburg (Bratislava)  – 11 July 1910, Bad Ischl) was a Jewish Austrian architect.[1]

Wilhelm Stiassny, 1883

Personal life

From 1857 to 1861, he studied at the Polytechnic in Vienna and afterwards studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt.

In 1867 Stiassny was appointed delegate to the Paris Exposition by the Ministry of Commerce, and the following year he settled in Vienna as an architect. Until 1905 he oversaw the construction of 180 palaces, schools, residences, factories, hospitals, and synagogues, including the Rothschild Hospital at Währing (1873), the Hall of Ceremonies in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Friedhof, the Königswarter Institute for the Blind at Hohewarte, the Kindergarten in the second district of Vienna, the Rothschild Hospital at Smyrna, and the synagogues at Malacky, Jablonec nad Nisou, Čáslav, and Weinberge (Vinohrady, now a part of Prague). From 1878 to 1900 Stiassny was a member of the aldermanic board of Vienna and of the Donauregulierungs-Commission. From 1879 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Jewish community of Vienna. In 1895, Stiassny founded the Society for the Conservation and Preservation of Art and Historical Monuments of Judaism, the world's first Jewish museum.[2] He also served as head of the Jewish Colonization Association in Vienna.

Buildings
  • Polish Synagogue, Leopolsdgasse Vienna
  • Interior of the "Polnische Schul"
  • Stanisławów Synagogue, today Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
  • Jerusalem synagogue in Prague
  • Königswarter House(1881), Rathausstraße 15-17, Vienna
  • Rothschild-Tomb, Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) Vienna

References
  1. Tanaka, Satoko, Wilhelm Stiassny (1842–1910) Dissertation, Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Wien, 2009. (in German)
  2. Hödl, Klaus, From Acculturation to Interaction: A New Perspective on the History of the Jews in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Shofar, 25.2, 2007
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.