(Hall, Tyrol 1910-2001 Vienna)
“Entwurf für das Glasfenster im Verwaltungsgeb. der Röhrenwerke Hall T.”, titled, signed, dated Weiler 48, egg tempera, pencil on paper, on canvas, 88 x 60 cm, stretched on a wooden frame

Provenance:
Guido Holzmeister (1914-2015) Collection, Innsbruck;
His heirs

On the construction of Tiroler Röhren- und Metallwerke in Hall Extract from a conversation with the architecture journalist Arno Ritter on 2 July 1998 in Holzmeister’s “Berghaus” on the Hahnenkamm near Kitzbühel ...

Arno Ritter: And you also said back then that your father planned, with the young Weiler...
Guido Holzmeister: Yes, yes, my father always said that when he made architectural designs, he didn’t want to forget the painters and sculptors, and when he planned the office building, I saw that on the small street-facing façade he had planned a five-metre high and two-metre wide window for the stairwell. And so, my father, when he then came to Austria, that was in 1948 or 1949, I think, in any case, when he came up here for the first time, he became friends with the painter Max Weiler, who had already become well-known with his paintings in the Hungerburg Church, and my father said: Weiler, you will make me a stained-glass window for this. And that’s how my acquaintance with Weiler came about. Weiler and I are the same age, and we became friends. And Weiler asked me at the time: well, how do you envisage it then? I replied, well, something very simple. The Nordkette, spring tapping, I thought of my grandfather (Bridarolli), the water drainage, the use of water and drainage. That was the domain of the Tiroler Röhren- und Metallwerke. Weiler created a design for the stained-glass window, where one can see how the water is collected high up, then drained, turbines or something, but represented symbolically, of course, and the drainage. I still have this design in my possession. It was presented to the commissioners. However, the office building was only finished when I went away, around 1952.