August Krumholz

August Krumholz (* 1845 in Straß in Steiermark ; † after 1914 ) was an Austrian architect of the 19th century.

The son of the Marburg road builder of the same name and later construction director studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1864 to 1869 , first with Eduard van der Nüll , then with Friedrich von Schmidt , under whose direction he worked out a town hall design for the international art exhibition in Munich in 1869. In 1866 and 1869 he was awarded the Gundel Prize of the Academy.

In the following years, Krumholz distinguished himself primarily as a school architect. From 1870 to 1874 he built the Komenium secondary school in Olomouc as his first independent building . Through Schmidt's mediation, in cooperation with the educator Erasmus Schwab , he received the order for the prototype construction of a country school building at the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna , whereby the creation of school gardens was an important component. In 1876 he won the architecture competition for the establishment of an elementary and community school in Winterberg .

The Dumba Villa in Liezen (demolished in 1960) was built from 1874 to 1875 for the Viennese industrialist and patron Nikolaus Dumba , in 1876 he built the preserved "Villa Weinfried" in Bad Vöslau for the southern railway operator Ludwig Schneider , as well as the town museum in Aussig in 1876 .

Despite his initial success as an architect, Krumholz gradually withdrew from the architecture industry from 1880. In 1886, as the landowner in Straß in Styria, Krumholz became secretary of the farmers' association for Marburg and the surrounding area and gave the association an anti-Semitic orientation in the spirit of Georg von Schönerer .

Krumholz had been based in Budapest since 1893 , where he opened a “company for the production of asbestos floors ”, which later had its headquarters at Mariahilfer Strasse 130 in Vienna. The company went bankrupt in 1906, with his wife Franziska running the Budapest branch on her behalf. The Vienna address book from 1908 lists him again as an architect with his seat at Kärntnerstraße 33, although he had previously declared his resignation from the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects .

The Wiener Kronen Zeitung reported on 20 February 1908 by the arrest Krumholz in Paris on charges of espionage, then the detailed Vienna Airship newspaper . Accordingly, Krumholz had previously been in correspondence with the designer Henri Julliot and was interested in his design of the French airship Patrie (which had disappeared the year before) . However, at Julliot's intervention, the procedure was put down, since, according to his statement, "the plans of the Patrie ... are known to the entire aeronautical world down to the smallest detail ... and have been published, commented on and discussed in all kinds of specialist publications".

gallery

Olomouc, Komenium
Aussig, museum
Liezen, Dumba Villa

Web links

www.usti-aussig.net/autori/karta/jmeno/344-august-krumholz

Individual evidence

^ KEO Fritsch : From the international art exhibition in Munich. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 3, 1869, p. 493.

↑ Erasmus Schwab and August Krumholz: The Austrian model school for rural communities on the world exhibition site . Vienna 1873; August Krumholz: Detailed plans of the Austrian model school for rural communities in the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873. Vienna 1877; see. Carl Hinträger: The school buildings in the different countries, Part II: Primary schools in Austria-Hungary, Bosnia and Hercegovina. In: Advances in the field of architecture. Supplementary booklets to the Handbuch der Architektur , No. 12. Stuttgart 1901, pp. 58 and 110f.

^ Concurs for the city school in Winterberg. In: New Free Press of July 24, 1876.

^ August Krumholz: Mr. Nicolaus Dumba 's hunting lodge in Liezen in Upper Styria . In Allgemeine Bauzeitung 1876, pp. 76–78; Johann Josef Böker : The two villas of Nicolaus Dumba in Liezen (Upper Styria) . In: Insitu - Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7, 2015, pp. 235–246.

↑ Janez Cvirn: The "Fortress Triangle ". On the political orientation of the Germans in Lower Styria (1861–1914) . Lit Verlag, Vienna 2016. pp. 95f.

^ Address book Vienna 1903, Krumholz August

^ Address book Vienna 1908, Krumholz August

↑ http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=krz&date=19080220&seite=6

^ Wiener Luftschiff Zeitung, Internet Archive: An espionage affair

personal data
SURNAME	Krumholz, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Straß in Styria
DATE OF DEATH	after 1914

[1] KEO Fritsch : From the international art exhibition in Munich. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 3, 1869, p. 493.

[2] Erasmus Schwab and August Krumholz: The Austrian model school for rural communities on the world exhibition site . Vienna 1873; August Krumholz: Detailed plans of the Austrian model school for rural communities in the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873. Vienna 1877; see. Carl Hinträger: The school buildings in the different countries, Part II: Primary schools in Austria-Hungary, Bosnia and Hercegovina. In: Advances in the field of architecture. Supplementary booklets to the Handbuch der Architektur , No. 12. Stuttgart 1901, pp. 58 and 110f.

[3] Concurs for the city school in Winterberg. In: New Free Press of July 24, 1876.

[4] August Krumholz: Mr. Nicolaus Dumba 's hunting lodge in Liezen in Upper Styria . In Allgemeine Bauzeitung 1876, pp. 76–78; Johann Josef Böker : The two villas of Nicolaus Dumba in Liezen (Upper Styria) . In: Insitu - Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7, 2015, pp. 235–246.