Ernst Wiesner


Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner 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] in Vienna. 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.
With the Third Reich's increasing grip on Czechoslovakia, Wiesner emigrated to Great Britain where he lived for the remainder of his life, and joined the foreign anti-fascist resistance during World War II. During 1948-1950 he acted as a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Oxford and during 1950–1960 at the University of Liverpool. In 1969 he was nominated to the rank of honorary doctor by the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Brno. When he died in 1971 he was buried in Liverpool's Allerton Cemetery.
[Image:Brněnské krematorium.jpg|thumb|Crematorium in Brno]
Image:Brno City - [Morava Palace from northwest.jpg|thumb|Block with the Moravia Palace in Brno today]

Architectural works in Brno

  • Gutmannův dům 1919–22
  • Moravská zemská životní pojišťovna 1920–1923
  • Böhmische Union Bank 1923–26
  • Krematorium 1926–29
  • Vila Stiassni 1927 - 1929
  • Palác Morava 1927–29. Completely finished in 1936
  • Rodinný dvojdům 1928
  • Moravská banka 1929–30, co-author Bohuslav Fuchs
  • Činžovní dům Freundschaft 1930–31
  • Various family houses, industrial and manufacturing buildings around the City of Brno