Theiss, Siegfried#
b. Bratislava (Slovakia), Nov. 17, 1882, d. Vienna, Jan. 24, 1963, architect. Studied at the University of Technology in Vienna and with F. Ohmann; worked with Max Ferstel. 1907-1961 partner of H. Jaksch in their office "Theiss & Jaksch" in Vienna; Professor at the University of Technology in Vienna. "Theiss & Jaksch" often won competitions and became known through large-scale orders for office and church buildings even before World War I; in the years between the two wars they mainly planned housing estates for the Municipality of Vienna. In the late 1920s they turned to a moderately modern style with the high-rise building in the 1st district of Vienna (Herrengasse; 1931-1933) as their most important example. During the National Socialist period they built a number of dairies, after 1945 designed the typical shop-fronts and interior furnishings of the shops of the Palmers group.
Further works#
airforce barracks at Wiener Neustadt, 1914-1917; miners´ barracks, Huettenberg (Carinthia) 1921-1923; Quarin-Hof, 10th district of Vienna, 1924; workers´ residential house, Bruck an der Mur, 1924; sanatorium, Bad Schallerbach (Upper Austria), 1924-1925; Sandleitenhof, 16th district of Vienna, 1924-1928 (with E. Hoppe, O. Schoenthal, F. Matuschek, F. Krauss and J. Toelk); grammar school building AHS Wenzgasse, 13th district of Vienna, 1930/31; the "Reichsbruecke" bridge, Vienna, 1933-1936.Literature#
G. Schwalm-T., T. & Jaksch. Architekten 1907-1961, 1986.