Heinz Tesar

Heinz Tesar (16 June 1939 – 18 January 2024) was an Austrian architect who had an international reputation for his church and museum architecture.

[1] Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the master class of Roland Rainer.

After several stays in Hamburg (1959–1961), Munich (1965–1968) and Amsterdam (1971), he opened, in 1973, his own studio in Vienna.

Tesar died on 18 January 2023, at the age of 84.

[2] From the 1980s, he taught at various universities in Europe and America: For various international competition entries he received the first or second prize: e.g. for Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), the University Library in Amiens (1991), the Synagogue in Dresden (1997), the Museum for Art and Design in Ingolstadt (2000) and the Museum of Medicine in Padua, Italy (2004).