Brothers Squadron

Brothers Squadron
legal form
founding	1899
resolution	1938
Seat	Vienna , Austria
Branch	Ceramics

Brothers Schwadron were Austrian tilers and manufacturers of ceramic goods , who had their main office in Vienna . The company, which was largely family-owned until the Second World War , was one of the most important Viennese tilers.

history

Advertisement (1905)

The family of contractors Victor and Adolf Schwadron originally came from Galicia . In Vienna Viktor became a city architect , Adolf was an engineer. You were the founder and partner of the company, which, in addition to trading in pottery, also specialized in building construction and sewerage. The Schwadron brothers draw a. a. Responsible for the tiling of the Dianabath and the Amalienbad, the tiles for which were supplied by the RAKO company.

The head office was located in an urban residential and commercial building at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, which was built in 1904 by the architect Julius Goldschläger . The showroom was on the ground floor.

Viktor's older son, Ernst Schwadron (* July 1, 1896; † February 3, 1979) studied at the Vienna State Trade School and worked primarily as an interior designer in Vienna in the late 1920s and 1930s. In 1930 he set up his studio penthouse on the top floor of the building, with furniture he designed himself, carpets by the artist Erna Lederer-Mendel and a big-city roof garden. In 1938 he emigrated to New York, where he founded the furniture company Ernst Schwadron Inc. in 1944. After the National Socialists marched in in 1938, the assets of the Jewish Schwadron family, including their house on Franz-Josefs-Kai, were Aryanized .

After the war, the building was temporarily used again by the Schwadron company. After a restoration, the former tile showrooms served as BAWAG PSK Contemporary's exhibition rooms from May 2010 until the end of 2013 . The rooms have been used by the University of Applied Arts as an AIL Applied Innovation Lab oratory since 2014.

An interactive exhibition project Brothers Schwadron. call to mind , initiated by Tina Zickler and Lisa Rastl in the former Schwadron headquarters, deals with the work of the Schwadron brothers.

In 2012 the artist Heidrun Holzfeind designed a comprehensive exhibition project on the work and life of Ernst Schwadron at BAWAG Contemporary.

In 2015 Tina Zickler designed an exhibition project in the Kartause Mauerbach with the Federal Monuments Office under the title Brothers Schwadron and the Viennese building ceramics .