Johann Rezac

Austrian architect and sculptor Johann Rezac studied from 1931 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien (Vienna), and also attended a sculptors’ school. As a freelance architect, he specialized in residential, commercial and industrial buildings, but also built churches in his later years. He produced, for instance, the designs for the remarkable commercial building Zeillergasse 3 in Wien, submitted in 1958. He was involved in the construction of the residential complex Jagdgasse 1d (1954-56) for the municipality of Wien. In 1936, he joined the group “Künstlerhaus Wien” (Vienna House of Artists). He served in World War II between 1940-44, and was discharged after being wounded. In 1945, he was erased from the list of members of the “Künstlerhaus”, because he had been a member of the Nazi party, but was re-admitted in 1948. Later, he worked as a teacher at the vocational school in Krems and was appointed professor for building construction at the “Höhere Technische Lehranstalt” (Higher Technical Education Institute) in Wien.

Rezac’s Water Sports Center Pörtschach at Lake Wörthersee was a competing design with Alfred Rineschs’s Water Sport Centre on the Wörthersee Carinthia. Neither of the two designs was realized.