Alfred Keller (architect)

Alfred Keller (born June 17, 1875 in Graz , † March 8, 1945 in Krems an der Donau ) was an Austrian architect , painter and graphic artist.

Life

Alfred Keller studied from 1893 to 1898 at the Technical University and the Landscape Drawing Academy in Graz. He then became an engineer assistant at the Graz City Planning Office in 1898 and graduated in 1899. He went to Vienna , where he was a construction assistant until 1907, and from 1908 an engineer in the Imperial and Royal Dicastral Building Directorate. In the same year he was accepted into the Ministry of Public Works and after that he began to work independently. Since 1904 he was a member of the Hagenbund , whose president he was from 1912 to 1917. Keller, who had already made a trip to India in 1897, stayed in the USA from 1913 to 1915 as an exhibition architect. Further stays abroad took him to Spain after the war 1920–1925. He therefore employed Walter Broßmann in his home studio, who became an equal partner from 1926 to 1932 after Keller returned. In addition to his work as an architect, Keller worked for the periodical Wohnungskunst from 1919 to 1920 , in 1927 an expert at the Higher Regional Court for Copyright and in 1928 a member of the examination committee for the authorization of civil engineers for building construction and civil architects. After he became a full professor at the Vienna University of Technology in 1930 for building theory, building economics and transport engineering, he retired from his architecture studio. 1935–1936 he was dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University.

Alfred Keller was an internationally respected and honored man. In 1928 he received the Golden Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria , in 1929 the Gran Premio and the Medalla de Oro in Barcelona and in 1930 the Commander's Cross of the Spanish Order of Merit from the Spanish King. In addition to many other memberships, Keller was a member of the Austrian Werkbund from 1913 and of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative from 1920. After his death at the age of 70, he was buried in the Krems cemetery.

meaning

Alfred Keller was a very productive architect. He created residential and commercial buildings, villas and hotels, as well as numerous industrial buildings and factories, but also interior fittings and exhibition designs. Keller was a representative of the Heimat style with references to the southern German homeland security movement. In the buildings that were created together with Walter Broßmann, the specific share of the individual architects can no longer be determined. As a graphic artist, Keller designed catalog covers and posters, as a painter he created oil paintings and watercolors.

Works

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1902-1904	Police building BDA-ID:  10752 Wikidata	Vienna 9, Roßauer Lände 5–9 / Berggasse 41–43 Location	Note: together with Karl Holzer and Moritz Kramsall, plans revised by Emil von Förster
		1903-1920	Hagenbund art exhibitions	Vienna	destroyed Note: cooperation
		1906	Ramp and well niche at the capital parish church of St. Jacob BDA-ID:  63592 Wikidata	Villach , Kirchenplatz 9 and 12 location	Note: Competition 1905, 1st prize
		1906	Sanatorium Hansa	Graz, Körblergasse 42, location	Note: extension in 1911; 1925 with Brossmann
		1906-1908	Courthouse BDA-ID:  22608 Wikidata	Vienna 1, Riemergasse 7 / Jakobergasse 1 / Zedlitzgasse 2 location	Note: with Moritz Kramsall
		1908-1912	Former kuk District Court Margarethen BDA-ID:  6482 Wikidata	Vienna 5, Mittersteig 25 / Siebenbrunnengasse 1 location	Note: with Moritz Kramsall
		1909	Villa Rudolf Hans Bartsch	Vienna 13, Beckgasse 40 Location	Note: formerly Reichgasse
		1909	Single family house Dr. Tropper	Graz? Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1909	Porak workers' colony	Weissenberg, Neuhofen an der Krems Coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: Belongs to the castle . Possibly at Hofmühle.
		1909	Widow's and orphanage of the Austrian-Alpine Montangesellschaft	Eisenerz , Vordernberger Strasse 93, Styria. Location
		1910	Syringe house	Pernegg an der Mur , Kirchdorf 22	destroyed Note: The Pernegg fire brigade was founded in 1905. A historical photo (armory Pernegg) shows a building in the style of the municipal office (not house no. 22).
		1910	Extension of the Dr. Hajos	Lussingrande / Veli Lošinj , Croatia	Destroyed Annotation: Kurhaus Sanatorium Dr Rudolf Hajós in Čikat in 1906
		1910	International hunting exhibition in the rotunda in the Prater	Vienna 2nd	destroyed Note: Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Employee
		1911	Josseck & Oblack office building	Graz, Murgasse 9 location
		1911	Residential complex	Graz, Humboldtstrasse 32 / Grillparzerstrasse 2 / Körblergasse 11–13 location
		1911	House Benndorf	Graz, Unterer Plattenweg 34 location
		1911	Extension of the Dr. Wiesler BDA-ID:  126994 Wikidata	Graz, Heinrichstraße 33 location
		1912	Hotel Alhambra	Cigale on Lošinj , Croatia location
		1913	Villa Geutebrück	Lussingrande / Veli Losinj, Croatia Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1913	St. James Bridge and Wikidata Quay	Laibach / Ljubljana , Slovenia location
		1913	Adria exhibition Vienna	Canadian Pacific Railway Pavilion	destroyed Note: Employees
		1913	Overall design and management of the Austrian department of the trade exhibition in Toronto	Canada	destroyed
		1914	Overall management and implementation in Lyon on behalf of the Austrian department of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lyon	France	destroyed
		1914-1916	Former. kk export academy; from 1919 University for World Trade BDA-ID:  52513 Wikidata	Vienna 19, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 location	Note: 1914 Walter Brossmann building supervision. 1975–1992 University of Economics, today the seat of several university institutes and the Austrian Archaeological Institute
		1915	E. Weinberger's hunting lodge	Muggendorf, Marienthal , Lower Austria coordinates are missing! Help.
		1916	Heřmanice workers' colony (Ostrava)	in the Moravian-Ostrau coal region. Coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: For the Österreichische-Alpine-Montangesellschaft. The mining museum bears the inscription 1898
		1917	Residence of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society BDA-ID:  85783 Wikidata	Eisenerz, Vordernberger Straße 89–91, location
		1917	Beach complex in Sansego Island / Susak	Susak coordinates are missing! Help.
		around 1917	Workers' houses for the Austrian Alpine Mining Society	Donawitz and Leoben coordinates are missing! Help.
		1921	Civil servant residence for 4 families of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society	Eisenerz, Hieflauer Straße 26 location
		1921-1922	Kerpely Colony Wikidata	Leoben , Kerpelystraße / Turnerweg location
		1921-1922	Zeller case factory	Atzgersdorf , Vienna 23 location	destroyed Note: with Brossmann.
		1921-1925	Palais Circulo Ecuestre	Barcelona , Spain	Draft Note: 1920 pre-competition award; closer competition 2nd prize
		1923-1925	Alpine director's villa	Leoben, Schillerstraße 2 location
		1924-1925	Krafthaus Gratwein of the Leykam-Josefsthaler paper mill. Weir system, new works sewer, electrical works	Gratwein location	Note: Today Sappi Gratkorn. Two entries merged
		1925	Elementary school BDA-ID:  88958 Wikidata	Niklasdorf , Styria. Location	Note: with Brossmann
		1925-1926	Power station	Krems an der Donau , Lower Austria coordinates are missing! Help.	Note: with Brossmann.
		1925-1926	Jean-Jaurès-Hof BDA-ID:  51409 Wikidata	Vienna 10, Neilreichgasse 105 / Raxstraße 12 / Migerkastraße / Rudolfshügelgasse location	Note: with Walter Brossmann
		1926-1927	David-Hof BDA-ID:  52165 Wikidata	Vienna 16, Effingergasse 31 / Römergasse 47–51 / Spindeleggergasse 8 / Seitenberggasse 24–28 Location	Note: with Walter Brossmann
		1929	Design of the Austrian department of the world exhibition in Barcelona	E.	destroyed
		1929-1930	Rodauner cement factory	Kaltenleutgabe , Lower Austria location	Note: with Walter Brossmann. Closed in 1991. Partly blown up, now residential complex.
		1931	Reconstruction and installation of an upper floor BDA-ID:  50473 Wikidata	Justizpalast, Vienna 1, Schmerlingplatz 10–11 / Museumsstrasse 12, location
		1931	Municipal bathhouse	Krems, Lower Austria location	destroyed Note: with Brossmann
		1932	Substation Graz-Süd of the Steirische Wasserkraft & Elektrizitätsgesellschaft STEWEAG	Angergasse 17, Graz location	Note: with Brossmann
		1934-1935	Extension of the hotel "Maria-Theresien-Schlößl" BDA-ID:  78981 Wikidata	Salzburg, Morzgerstraße 87 location
		1934-1936	Former. Catholic teacher training college	Mattersburg, Hochstrasse 1 Bgld. Location	Draft Note: Competition, 1st prize. Since 1948 Bundesrealgymnasium and Bundesgymnasium. Not realized according to the school's homepage.
		1935	Dollfuss Memorial Church BDA-ID:  4465 Wikidata	Buchbergstrasse 1b, Rekawinkel location
		1940-1941	Schmidthütte electricity works	Krems, Lower Austria coordinates are missing! Help.

In addition:

• Furnishing of the living quarters of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1912)
• Furnishing of the admiral's and commanders' rooms on the imperial and royal warship SMS Viribus Unitis (1912)
• Equipment of the command rooms on the SMS Prinz Eugen and SMS Tegetthoff (1912)
• Entrance hall in the Woschnagg-Melzer house , Vienna 1 (1935)

Furthermore, Keller created workers 'colonies and civil servants' houses in Rychvald , Fohnsdorf , Köflach and Frantschach for the Austrian-Alpine Montangesellschaft and the Eisenerz substation , although no exact year of origin is known.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Keller (architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alfred Keller (architect). In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://losinjhealth.com/about-losinj/health-vitality-since-1892/

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