DI Dr. Clemens Holzmeister

Clemens Holzmeister comes from a Tyrolean Hammerschmied family and is born as the son of a coffee plantation owner. The family wanders in the middle of 19. After the century to Brazil, it reaches prosperity. Holzmeister's father returns to Tyrol in 1876 as a private man. Since this Brazilian citizen is, this is also the master of wood. This saves him participation in the First World War.

Holzmeister visits the real school in Innsbruck, where he joins the middle school compound Cimbria Innsbruck. After completing the real school, he began studying civil engineering and architecture at the Technical University of Vienna in 1906 (Dipl.-Ing., Dr. techn. 1919), where he joined the Norica student association.

Clemen's wooden master makes himself a name in the interwar period as an architect. Because he is one of the most important contemporary church architects, he is appointed president of the General German Catholic Day in Vienna in September 1933. This position is significant insofar as this Catholic Day is dedicated to the 350-year memory of Vienna's Turkish liberation in 1683, and on the other hand because Holzmeister is closely connected to Turkey in the meantime as an architect.

In 1934, Clemens Holzmeister is appointed as a member of the Council of the City of Vienna, which position he disguises as a representative of art until March 1935. From November 1934 to 12th March 1938 he is a member of the Council of State.

After Clemen's Holzmeister had to give up his work in Düsseldorf in 1933 after the NS takeover, he devotes himself to his professorship at the Wiener Akademie der Bildenden Künste, whose rector he is from 1931 to 1933 and from 1935 to 1937 (now he is a proctor).

Already in 1927, Clemens Holzmeister is commissioned to build the war ministry in Ankara. In 1937, this is followed for the parliamentary building there, later for the residence of the Turkish state founder Kemal Atatürk. He also builds the ministries for economics, internals and agriculture, as well as the Supreme Court, as well as the Austrian legislature in Ankara.

Due to his contacts with Turkey, Holzmeister often stops there. That's what happened to him. March 1938 in Ankara. After he is removed from all his functions in the “East Mark” – especially from his professorship at the Academy – he remains in exile in Turkey. In July 1939, he was judged for his belonging to the CV and as a supporter of the State of State of the State of the State of the State of State and finally released with half of the retired enjoyment by forced retirement.

In 1939, Holzmeister was in Brazil for half a year, but returned to Turkey and was professor at the Technical University in Istanbul from 1940 to 1949. There he also has contact with resistance circles and with other exiles from Austria.

After the war, Clemens Holzmeister is already invited to return home to Austria in 1945, but only from 1954 he resumes his work as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, whose rector he is from 1955 to 1957. Although he retired in 1957, he continues the master class for architecture until 1961.

In 1955, Clemens Holzmeister founded the Austro-Hösterreicherwerk, whose president he was until 1975. He is also temporarily President of the Austrian Art Senate.