August Kürmayr

August Kürmayr (born April 2, 1936 in Linz ) is an Austrian architect .

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After successfully studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology between 1957 and 1963, Kürmayr completed internships abroad in Stockholm and Zurich . From 1963 he worked in the planning group of the University of Linz ( architects Erich Scheichl and Franz Treml ) and from 1973 he worked independently in Klaus Nötzberger's studio and from 1981 in his own studio.

From 1976 to 1977 he was president of the artists' association MAERZ .

Direktionsschlössl, Kaplanhofstrasse 2, Linz, built in 1857, revitalized 1978–1980

His notable projects include:

Direktionsschlössl, office and commercial building, former management building of the gas works in the Kaplanhofviertel (1978 to 1980), the building has been a listed building since 2009
With Ernst Hoffmann : development concept for Kastüßen (1981, 1994),
Cemetery projects in Ottensheim, St. Florian and Ebelsberg, partly together with the Munich theologian Gottfried Hutter .

With Wolfgang Stifter, Inge Dick, Norbert W. Hinterberger and Udo Wid: Assenza presunta , Museo Casabianca ( Malo ), Organizer: Office for Cultural Foreign Relations of the Province of Upper Austria (1995)
Maerz Gallery, Maerz Artists' Association, Linz: Things we never did (2011)
AFO Architekturforum Oberösterreich, artist association MAERZ, Linz, Sibylle Ettengruber and Ewald Walser (concept): Wegmarken, March 1952 to 2002 , 100 different positions in a show about the creative years between 1952 and 2003 (2013)

Wolfgang Stifter (illustration), Aldemar Schiffkorn (ed.): Assenza presunta , catalog in Edition Grenzgänger , episode 20, 63 S with numerous illustrations, texts in German and Italian

Laureate of the Upper Austrian Culture Prize for Architecture (1979, with Klaus Nötzberger)

Peter Kraft : 7x10: August Kürmayr. From decades of work of an architect, which is essentially oriented. In: August Kürmayr, Architektur - Zwischenraum, March 22 to April 14, 2006, Galerie Maerz, design by Roland Keil, Linz 2006, pp. 2-4.
Peter Kraft: From housing for the living to the home of the dead. The Linz architect August Kürmayr as the new designer of Upper Austrian cemetery culture. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Year 63, Linz 2009, Issue 1/2, pp. 135-163 (therein on Sankt Florian, Ottensheim, Sarleinsbach, Linz-Ebelsberg, Sankt Ulrich bei Steyr, Neuhofen im Innkreis, Hargelsberg and Waldhausen), PDF on land-Oberoesterreich. gv.at
Home is not a place / places create home - conversation with August Kürmayr. Interview from March 10, 2014, FRO.

Commons : Direktionsschlössl Kaplanhofstraße, Linz - collection of images, videos and audio files