Albert Esch

Albert Esch (born April 2, 1883 in Eisgrub , Moravia, † September 26, 1954 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape architect .

Life

Albert Esch spent several years studying in England, France and Belgium before settling in Vienna and specializing in the planning of private gardens and parks. In addition to this field of activity, he was also involved in two urban planning projects: In a joint venture with Karl Kotratschek and Paul Rückauf , he won first prize in the “ Topcider Park ” design competition in Belgrade in 1925 .

Esch alone won, also in 1925, first prize in the competition for the redesign and greening of the city center of Osijek (Croatia). In the period between the two world wars, Esch was one of the most famous modern landscape designers in Vienna. He worked with architects from the Vienna School on his home garden designs (Hofmann / Augenfeld, Josef Frank), as well as Arnošt Wiesner and Hermann John Hagemann . In addition, he was strongly committed to qualified professional training for garden architects.

His collaborator from 1925 to 1931 was the garden architect Josef Oskar Wladar (1900–2002)

Works (selection)

• Landscape park around Šternberk Castle , 1907–1909
• Gardens of the Ortmann workers' colony in Pernitz - Muggendorf , second construction phase, 1920–21
• Over-planning of the city center (city park) of Osijek , Croatia, from 1925
• Design proposal for the garden of Villa Lenobel, Vienna, 1926
• House garden of the architect A. Mateju, Mauer near Vienna , 1927
• House garden Kommerzialrat Hans Fehrer, Linz, 1928
• House garden of the architect Hermann John Hagemann, 1930
• Vasco dos Santos home garden, Vienna 18, Sternwartestrasse 57d, 1931
• Garden of the architect Karl Dirnhuber , Vienna, around 1933
• Home garden Dr. Karl Schmidt, Vienna 19, Blaasstr. 30, before 1935
• House garden in Vienna 12, Längenfeldgasse No. 27
• Green area around the "Memorial in honor of the soldiers of the Soviet Army" on Schwarzenbergplatz

Publications

• Anton Eipeldauer, Albert Esch: The contemporary little garden. Its practical arrangement and important care with special consideration of the flowers , (Scholle-Bücherei; 116), Vienna 1929
• Adalbert Camillo Baumgartner, Albert Esch: The garden of today, its structure and its design . Vienna [u. a.]: Winkler-Verlag, 1933
• Karl Maria Grimme: Gardens by Albert Esch , Michael Winkler Verlag, Vienna a. Leipzig 1931

literature

In alphabetical order by author:

• Eva Berger : Albert Esch - the Austrian garden architect commemorating the anniversary of his death 50 years ago . In: Historical Gardens, Bulletin of the Austrian Society for Historical Gardens, 2, 2004, pp. 11–13
• Eva Berger: The Austrian garden architect Albert Esch - in memory of the fiftieth anniversary of his death . In: Stadt und Grün, vol. 53, 2004, no. 11, pp. 46–47.
• Eva Berger: "... to create gardens that combine beauty and utility ...". Albert Esch (1883-1954). On the journalistic activities of the Austrian garden architect and on contemporary publications about his work. Searching for traces of his life . In: Die Gartenkunst  17 (1/2005), pp. 22–72.
• Charlotte Reitsam: Albert Esch . In: Garten + Landschaft 6/1996.
• Stefan Schmidt: Albert Esch. An Austrian horticultural architect from the First Republic . In: Die Gartenkunst 7 (2/1995), pp. 309–317.
• Lieselotte Strohmayr: Albert Esch - private gardens . Vienna 1990. Dipl.-Arb., Univ. for soil culture.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Second, revised and expanded edition. Volume 3 Einstein - Görner. Munich: Saur. 2006, p. 149.
• Fritz Weigl: You had the green thumb . ErasmusWien Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-95006247-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Esch in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Regularization of Osijek Center in the Work of Albert Esch from 1925 ( Memento of September 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English and Croatian, PDF)