Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of Judith Holzmeister.
Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of Judith Holzmeister.
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Biography Holzmeister was born in the village of Fulpmes in the Tyrol state of Austria. He and Judith Bridarolli married in 1913 in Innsbruck. In 1914 His son Guido was born in Vienna. He attended the Vienna University of Technology and earned a doctorate in architecture in 1919. His daughter Judith Holzmeister was born in Innsbruck in 1920. After submitting a prize-winning design, he became the Head of the Architecture Department of Austria's Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. In 1926 he oversaw the remodelling of the Festival Theatre in Salzburg, then spent several years erecting government buildings in Ankara, Turkey. In 1931 Holzmeister became the Director of the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts. Besides building projects in Austria, Germany and Turkey, he remained the Director of the Academy until being removed from this post during the Anschluss by the new German government in 1938. Although his offices, journals and papers were seized by the Nazis, he had the good luck to be in Turkey on another commission at the time; during which he designed the former Turkish Parliament building (1938) as well as numerous other state buildings. He remained in Turkey until 1954, then returned to Austria, where his…
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Honours and awards
Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture (June, 1953)
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Honorary Ring of Vienna (1955)
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1957)
Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1981)
Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey (1990)
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Sacred Buildings
Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Batschuns (1921-1923)
Kloster Maria Hilf with the retreat house of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood in Kufstein (1923, 1928)
Extensions of the parish church of Obergurgl in the municipality of Sölden (1924, 1966)
Parish Mariahilf (Heldendankkirche) in Bregenz (1925-1931), Vorarlberg
Parish church Crimea in Vienna Dobling (1931/32)
Reconstruction and extension of the parish church Dornbach in Vienna Hernals (1931/32)
Reconstruction and extension of the parish church of St. Anton am Arlberg (1932)
Filialkirche Erlöserkirche in Wiener Neustadt; Reconstruction of a factory building to the Church (1932)
Seipel-Dollfuss Memorial Church (now Christ the King Church) Neufünfhaus in Vienna (1933/34)
Parish Church of St. Erhard, Mauer (Vienna) (1934–36)
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Christ Evangelical Church in Kitzbühel (1962)
Parish Church of All Saints -St. George, Hoetting, Innsbruck (completed in 1964)
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Parish Pertisau, Tirol (1966-1970)
Parish Don Bosco (Großfeldsiedlung) in Vienna Floridsdorf (1971 built)
Guardian Angel Chapel (Schutzengel-Kapelle) in the Schlickeralm in the municipality of Telfes
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Mortuary Grafstein (Carinthia) (1965)
Church of St. Stephan in Gmünd (Lower Austria), 1981-1982 Expansion
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Parish church in Zwölfaxing (1966-1967)
Filialkirche Holzhausen, community Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg, 1985 Extension
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Civil Buildings
Elementary school in Marbach an der Donau (debut)
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Sanatorium Mehrerau in Bregenz (1922-1923)
Hotel Steinbock in Steinach am Brenner (built in 1923; demolished 1986)
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Council Blathof in Vienna (1924-1925)
Hotel Post in St. Anton am Arlberg (1927/28)
The Berghaus on the Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel (1929/30)
Cardinal Piffl dormitory of Akademikerhilfe in Vienna (1931/32)
New spa / therapy center in Bad Ischl (1932, today: Euro Therme Bad Ischl )
2 houses in the Werkbundsiedlung Vienna (1932)
Memorial at Fuschertörl, Grossglockner High Alpine Road (1933)
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Broadcasting House Argentinierstraße in Vienna (1935–39)
Festspielhaus in Salzburg (1 reconstruction in 1926; 2 reconstruction 1936/38)
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Schülerheim Don Bosco in Fulpmes
Leopold Figl waiting on Tulbingerkogel Lower Austria (1966–67; opened in 1968)
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Elementary school Jenbach, Tirol
Cultural Hall at the elementary school Himmelberg, Carinthia (1978/80)
Andreas Hofer monument in Vienna-Wieden on Südtirolerplatz (design, executed by Jacob Adlhart)
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Sacred Buildings
Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Mary Green, Blankenese, 1929–30
St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin, expressionist remodeling of the interior of the episcopal church, (destroyed in war)
Parish Church of St. Peter, Mönchengladbach -Waldhausen, 1933