!!!Gessner, Hubert

Gessner, Hubert, b. Valaške Klobouky, Czech Republic (then Wallachisch-Klobouk), Oct. 20, 1871; 
d. Vienna, April 24, 1943; architect; brother of Franz  Gessner. 
Worked with O.  Wagner in 1898/1899  and with his brother Franz G. 
from 1907-1912, after 1918 one of the leading architects of Vienna 
municipal housing projects, some of which he planned together with 
other architects, in 1938 officially prohibited from working for 
political reasons.

!Works
Vienna: workers' club in the 10%%sup th/%  district, 
1901/02 (a hotel since 1992); Villa G., Vienna's 18%%sup th/% 
 district, 1907; printing and publishing house "Vorwaerts", 
Vienna's 5%%sup th/%  district, 1909 (now mainly a hotel); 
Hammerbrot bakery, Vienna´s 21%%sup st/%  district, 1909; 
railwaymen's club, Vienna's 5%%sup th/%  district, 1912/13; 
Matzleinstalerhof, Vienna's 5%%sup th/%  district, 1919; 
Reumannhof, Vienna's 5%%sup th/%  district, 1924; Lassallehof, 
Vienna's 2%%sup nd/%  district, 1924/25; Heizmannhof, Vienna's 
2%%sup nd/%  district, 1925; Karl-Seitz-Hof, Vienna's 
21%%sup st/%  district, 1926; Augartenbruecke, 1929-1931. Lower 
Austria: Haus Herrenplatz, St. Poelten, 1914; Landhaus Renner, 
Gloggnitz (now a museum), 1930.

!Literature
; F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 
1992-1997; M. Kristan, H. G., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1998; OeBL.



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