Anton Brenner (architect)
Anton Brenner (born August 12, 1896 in Vienna ; † November 26, 1957 ) was an Austrian architect.
Live and act
Born from a simple family background, Brenner graduated from the commercial academy in 1914 and then went into military service. After being a prisoner of war in Russia (including with Erwin Lang ), during which he was able to attend architectural courses from time to time, he stayed in Qingdao , where he created a Protestant church and a school (no longer preserved).
After his return to Vienna, Brenner attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts for two years , among others with Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank . He then trained as an architect at the Academy of Fine Arts (1922 to 1926) and worked for Ernst Egli .
Brenner received his first order from the municipality of Vienna to furnish and equip 33 apartments. According to his plans, in 1924/25 a reinforced concrete frame construction was built on two stairs at Heinickegasse 1, at the corner of Rauchfangkehrergasse 26 (15th Viennese district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus ) and equipped with built-in furniture. A garbage chute (which was never in operation), built-in cupboards or box walls and space-saving folding beds in wall niches were part of the equipment. In order to enable wall niches in the same place in adjoining apartments, he offset the floors by one half-story. The municipality of Vienna provided no washing facilities (bathroom) in this residential building, as there was a drip bath in the neighboring house . The built-in kitchen is considered the forerunner of the Frankfurt kitchen .
The Brenner family lived in a 2-room apartment with 38 square meters. The repair of this apartment was scientifically supported by the Association for the History of the Labor Movement after the death of Brenner's wife . The Brenner Housing Museum is managed by the "Zeit! Raum" association.
After completing his studies, Brenner worked at the Frankfurt Building Department with Ernst May on the New Frankfurt project . There he not only received the order for an arcade house, but also developed the Frankfurt kitchen in collaboration with Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky .
In 1929 he became head of the architecture department at the Bauhaus Dessau . In the same year he takes part in the CIAM congress with the topic “The apartment for the subsistence level”. Heinrich de Fries wrote about Brenner in Moderne Bauformen in 1930: “Brenner himself lived in a small apartment in his first block in Vienna and thus gained more experience than most architects with a similar aim, who rarely have a sufficient and genuine understanding of the needs of the smallest apartment. "
According to his plans, two housing estates (Engelbrechtweg 9 and 11) were built in the Werkbundsiedlung Vienna from 1931 to 1932 . During the Second World War, Brenner was busy with the Luftgaukommando building hospitals. Throughout his life he pursued the idea of a herringbone-like “corn settlement” in settlement construction, patented this idea and tried to implement it both in the Luftgaukommando and in tourism. For the 'Heimatscholle' cooperative he planned such a settlement in Linz in the southern part of Ebelsberg (not realized). From 1951 to 1953 Brenner worked at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur . After returning to Vienna, he worked closely with his son Anton.
Brenner had three children (* 1925, * 1929, * 1940). He died in a car accident in 1957.
Buildings (excerpt)
- Residential complex at Rauchfangkehrergasse 26 at the corner of Heinickegasse 1, 1924/25.
- Laubenganghaus in Berlin-Steglitz with Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich , 1930.
- Settlement houses in the Werkbundsiedlung, 1931/32.
- Housing complex at Dreyhausengasse 46 at the corner of Prochgasse 12, 1955.
Fonts (excerpt)
- Autobiography Through life in three volumes: With body and soul. Solving economic problems as part of an autobiography 1-3
- The camping hotel promotes tourism and solves the housing question for you!
- Holiday hotel settlement for tourism promotion in Austria
- The architect's economically thought-out plan : floor plans, views of buildings, interior designs, urban planning solutions, old and new plans and building ideas (1951)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 5, 2013.
- ^ Anton Brenner, PDF , accessed on February 28, 2013
- ^ Josef Zapletal: Anton Brenner - Architect , diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 1990.
Web links
- Anton Brenner. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
- Anton Brenner Housing Museum for a limited period
- Website of the Anton Brenner Housing Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brenner, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1957 |