To the death of Heinz Tesár
"Architecture is an unartistic art. Architecture is non-verbal. Architecture has an impact."
In mid-January, the Austrian architectural scene lost a prominent figure of the Viennese postmodern wave. In the spa town of Baden near Vienna, Austrian architect Heinz Tesar passed away at the age of eighty-four, having gained acclaim for his designs of sacred, museum, and residential buildings with distinctive sculptural features.
Heinz Tesar was originally from Innsbruck in Tyrol. He studied architecture in the early 1960s in the master studio of Roland Rainer at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. After study visits in Hamburg (1959-61), Munich (1965-68), and Amsterdam (1971), he worked as an assistant in the studio of Wilhelm Holzbauer (1969-73) until he opened his own practice in Vienna in 1973. He taught at prestigious European (ETH Zurich, TU Munich, HdK Hamburg, IUAV Venice, Accademia Mendrisio) and overseas (Cornell, Syracuse, Harvard) universities. His professorial work among young people was enjoyable, but he also wanted to travel and not be tied to just one place. He did not want to give up independence and the opportunity to focus primarily on his own work, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of Heinrich Tessenow in 2000 and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 2011.
Tesar developed a distinct language of classic modernism with an "Austrian cut." He is the author of several pioneering buildings. Among his most significant works are the administrative building for the former Schömer Haus building materials chain in Klosterneuburg (1985-87), where the investor's extensive art collection was originally housed, later moved to the nearby Essl Museum (1996-99). The museum's operations ceased in 2016, but this spring, on April 9, the museum will reopen under the name Albertina Klosterneuburg. Tesar would surely be pleased with the renewal of the museum's operations. For other visitors, this will be a unique opportunity to recall Tesar's work, which has always led a sensitive dialogue with various historical layers and offered a strong spatial experience. For Tesar, the most essential aspect was the ability to concentrate on his own creation rather than on publishing, media appearances, or organizing exhibitions, but nonetheless, since the early 1970s, many theorists and curators have engaged with his work, acquiring his drawings, sketches, and models for gallery collections and preparing solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs (the most comprehensive was prepared in 1995 by the Vienna Architekturzentrum Wien as the first volume of Portraits of Austrian Architects).
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In mid-January, the Austrian architectural scene lost a prominent figure of the Viennese postmodern wave. In the spa town of Baden near Vienna, Austrian architect Heinz Tesar passed away at the age of eighty-four, having gained acclaim for his designs of sacred, museum, and residential buildings with distinctive sculptural features.
Heinz Tesar was originally from Innsbruck in Tyrol. He studied architecture in the early 1960s in the master studio of Roland Rainer at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. After study visits in Hamburg (1959-61), Munich (1965-68), and Amsterdam (1971), he worked as an assistant in the studio of Wilhelm Holzbauer (1969-73) until he opened his own practice in Vienna in 1973. He taught at prestigious European (ETH Zurich, TU Munich, HdK Hamburg, IUAV Venice, Accademia Mendrisio) and overseas (Cornell, Syracuse, Harvard) universities. His professorial work among young people was enjoyable, but he also wanted to travel and not be tied to just one place. He did not want to give up independence and the opportunity to focus primarily on his own work, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of Heinrich Tessenow in 2000 and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 2011.
Tesar developed a distinct language of classic modernism with an "Austrian cut." He is the author of several pioneering buildings. Among his most significant works are the administrative building for the former Schömer Haus building materials chain in Klosterneuburg (1985-87), where the investor's extensive art collection was originally housed, later moved to the nearby Essl Museum (1996-99). The museum's operations ceased in 2016, but this spring, on April 9, the museum will reopen under the name Albertina Klosterneuburg. Tesar would surely be pleased with the renewal of the museum's operations. For other visitors, this will be a unique opportunity to recall Tesar's work, which has always led a sensitive dialogue with various historical layers and offered a strong spatial experience. For Tesar, the most essential aspect was the ability to concentrate on his own creation rather than on publishing, media appearances, or organizing exhibitions, but nonetheless, since the early 1970s, many theorists and curators have engaged with his work, acquiring his drawings, sketches, and models for gallery collections and preparing solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs (the most comprehensive was prepared in 1995 by the Vienna Architekturzentrum Wien as the first volume of Portraits of Austrian Architects).
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