Adalbert Klaar

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Adalbert Josef Klaar (born August 27, 1900 in Vienna , † May 23, 1981 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian architect , civil engineer , author , building researcher , scientist and monument conservator .

Life

Adalbert Klaar studied at the Technical University of Vienna and graduated in 1924 as a Dipl.-Ing. and in 1929 Dr. techn. from. His dissertation is entitled “The rural settlement forms from the Babenberg period in Lower Austria”. In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of History and Settlement Technology and in 1946 was given a teaching position at the University of Vienna (“Settlement Studies and Spatial Planning”). In 1975 he retired. From 1946 to 1965 he held the post of senior state curator at the Federal Monuments Office .

Klaar worked from 1929 to 1938 as a freelance architect and from 1938 to 1944 in the public service in the planning authority of the Reichsstatthalterei. From 1946 to 1965 he worked in the Federal Monuments Office and made plan recordings with students for the Austrian art topography . In the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria he was a committee member from 1933 and president from 1955 to 1976 and was made honorary president in 1980. He was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery . He is regarded as the doyen of building research in Austria and research on settlement forms. In his long-term inventory for the Federal Monuments Office, he created building age plans for 195 Austrian cities and markets, 118 castles, 1,541 churches, 17 monasteries and 350 farmhouses.

Fonts

  • Settlement and house forms in the Vienna Woods. 1936.
  • The forms of settlement and houses in the Waldviertel. 1938.
  • The forms of settlement in Salzburg. 1939.
  • The forms of settlement in Vienna. In: Wiener Geschichtsbücher 8 (1971).

Awards

literature

  • Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries. Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1951.
  • Richard Bamberger / Franz Maier-Bruck : Austrian Lexicon in two volumes. Volume 1: A-K. Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1966.
  • Michael Martischnig: Adalbert Klaar - Bibliography. In: Our home 52 (1981) p. 36 ff.
  • Helmuth Feigl : In memoriam Adalbert Klaar In: Our home 47 (1976) p. 210 ff.
  • Lower Austrian cultural reports July – August 1981
  • Town hall correspondence. Vienna: Press and Information Service August 25, 1970, August 25, 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adalbert Klaar. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  2. ^ Grave site Adalbert Klaar , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, Group 6, No. 44.
  3. ↑ Entry on Adalbert Klaar in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  4. ↑ a b Adalbert Klaar in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Klaar, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klaar, Adalbert Josef; Klaar, Adalbert Josef Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect, civil engineer, author, building researcher, scientist and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1981
Place of death Klosterneuburg