Ernst Wiesner
Illustration — Memorial plaque to Ernst Wiesner in Brno Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner (21 January 1890, in Malacky, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 15 July 1971, in Liverpool) was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno. His ancestors with German surnames Wiesner came from the area of modern Austria. From 1908 to 1913 Wiesner studied at the Technical University of Vienna and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (taught by Friedrich Ohmann) in Vienna.
Also recorded as Arnošt Wiesner
Ernst Wiesner
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- Born
- 1890 · Malacky.
- Died
- 1971 · Liverpool.
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- architect · teacher · designer
- Education
- Masaryk University · Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Honours
- honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University
- Languages
- Czech
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Illustration — Memorial plaque to Ernst Wiesner in Brno Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner (21 January 1890, in Malacky, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 15 July 1971, in Liverpool) was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno. His ancestors with German surnames Wiesner came from the area of modern Austria. From 1908 to 1913 Wiesner studied at the Technical University of Vienna and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (taught by Friedrich Ohmann) in Vienna.
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Architectural works in Brno
Architectural works in Brno
After World War I he worked as an independent architect in the city of Brno, until 1939. Wiesner was a very active architect in the city between the World Wars. His work was greatly influenced by Adolf Loos and his pure constructions with their classicized balance and monumentality are amongst the best works to be constructed in Brno at that time. In 1969 he was nominated to the rank of honorary doctor by the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (now Masaryk University) in Brno. When he died in 1971 he was buried in Liverpool's Allerton Cemetery. • Illustration — Crematorium in Brno • Illustration — Block with the Moravia Palace in Brno today
• Gutmannův dům (Gutmann's house) 1919–22 • Moravská zemská životní pojišťovna (Moravian Provincial Life Insurance Company) 1920–1923 • Böhmische Union Bank (later seat of local branch of the Czechoslovak Broadcast) 1923–26 • Krematorium (Crematorium) 1926–29 • Vila Stiassni 1927 - 1929 • Palác Morava (Palace Moravia) 1927–29. Completely finished in 1936 • Rodinný dvojdům (Double-family house) 1928 • Moravská banka (Moravian Bank) 1929–30, co-author Bohuslav Fuchs • Činžovní dům Freundschaft (The Freundschaft Friendship tenement house) 1930–31 • Various family houses, industrial and manufacturing buildings around the City of Brno
Budova Českého rozhlasu Brno, foceno během edit-a-thonu 15. dubna 2023. Panorama.
Dominik Matus
Palác Morava, Zemská pojišťovna Brno (1938)
neznámý (unknown) · Magazine Měsíc, Brno: B. Kilian, Vol. 8 (1938), No. 8, p. 25
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1890
Ernst Wiesner was born in 1890 at Malacky.
1971
Ernst Wiesner died in 1971 at Liverpool.
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