Arnold Karplus

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Arnold Karplus (born June 24, 1877 in Wigstadtl , Austrian Silesia , Austria-Hungary ; † October 17, 1943 in Caracas in Venezuela ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Karplus was born as the son of the businessman Benedikt Karplus. He attended the state trade school in Opava , studied architecture at the technical universities of Vienna and Prague and received his doctorate in technology in 1903. From 1904 Karplus lived in Vienna, initially as an employee in the studio of the architect Alexander Wielemans . He took part in some competitions and was mainly active in residential building.

In 1911 Karplus was sworn in as a regional court expert and appraiser and became construction director of the Wiener Baugesellschaft , a position he held until the company was liquidated in 1927. During the First World War , Karplus was commissioned first as a lieutenant and then as a captain to erect functional military buildings. Arnold Karplus started as a freelance architect in 1927. From 1934 to 1938 he shared an office with his son Gerhard Karplus.

1933–1938 he lived with his family in Haus Steiner , built in 1910 by Adolf Loos for Lilly and Hugo Steiner , Vienna 13., St.-Veit-Gasse 10, in the district of Unter-St.-Veit . (The Steiner couple moved to Paris in 1927.) The house is depicted repeatedly in works on Viennese architectural history.

As a result of Austria's “annexation” to Hitler's Germany , his daughter Ruth did not return to Vienna after visiting her grandmother in Prague , but emigrated to New York . His son Gerhard also fled to the United States in 1938 , his son Hans to South America. Arnold Karplus, listed in the address book in 1939 at 13, Auhofstrasse 92, and his wife Else followed to New York in 1939.

Realizations

Memberships

Fonts

  • On the architecture of castles in the countries of the Bohemian Crown , dissertation, Prague 1903
  • New country houses and villas in Austria , Vienna 1910
  • with Gerhard Karplus: in: Wiener Architekten , A selection of drafts and completed buildings, Elbmühl-Verlag Vienna / Leipzig 1935. DNB 579104427

literature

  • Géza Hajós : The art monuments of Vienna - The secular buildings of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th district , 1980
  • Hans Hautmann and Rudolf Hautmann: The municipal housing of Red Vienna 1919-1934 , 1980
  • Helmut Weihsmann: Das Rote Wien - Social Democratic Architecture and Local Politics 1919-1934 , 1985
  • Otto Kapfinger , Science Wonder Productions: Visionaries in Exile , CD-ROM, 1995
  • Iris Meder: Open Worlds - The Viennese School in Single Family Housing 1910-1938 , Dissertation, 2003

Web links

Commons : Arnold Karplus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Eckstein: New residential buildings . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1932, p. 78-79 .
personal data
SURNAME Karplus, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigstadtl , Austrian Silesia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1943
Place of death Caracas