Bruno Buzek

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Bruno Buzek (born July 13, 1911 in Retz ; † July 8, 1973 in Korneuburg ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

After studying at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in Franz Cizek and Josef Hoffmann and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Clemens Holzmeister Buzek was his assistant. Buzek worked in Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau , Goslar , Zeitz and Althaldensleben before returning to Vienna before the start of the Second World War, where he planned and built hotels, industrial buildings, coffee houses, industrial estates and residential buildings.

Bruno Buzek, married three times and divorced twice, had been married to the Austrian animator , graphic artist and children's book illustrator Susi Weigel in Berlin since 1937 . Together they had previously designed the interior design of the “Café Industrie” (later “ Café Koralle ”) coffee house that belonged to Susi Weigel's parents. Later, Buzek and Weigel also designed the “Koralle Bar” in the basement of Café Koralle and the furnishing of the control bank rooms .

Buzek had been a member of the Vienna Secession since 1950 . He was buried on July 20, 1973 in a grave in the Neustifter Friedhof (group A, U37).

Literary traces

The name Bruno Buzek is mentioned in Konrad Bayer's novel "The Sixth Sense" in the now famous excess of greeting: "gillo dorfles shook hands with ives acker. Ives acker shook hands with bruno buzek. Bruno buzek shook hands with felix heybach. Felix heybach shook hands with dr. jirgal. "

Works (selection)

  • Competition design for the Primitive Settlement House (together with Hoffmann's student Alfred Bartizal) (1932)
  • Café Industrie , Vienna 9, Porzellangasse 39 (together with Susi Weigel ) (1936)
  • Designs for wooden houses (1936)
  • Kapsch-Werke, Vienna 12, Wienerbergstrasse 47 / Wagenseilgasse 8 / Wurmbgasse 19 (largely destroyed) (1939–40)
  • Edelstahlwerke Gebrüder Böhler, Waidhofen an der Ybbs (together with Alfred Schmid, Walter Schwarz and Hans Walch) (1938–44)
  • Schmid steel works, Liezen
  • Rottenmanner Eisenwerke, Rottenmann
  • Draft single family house (1949)
  • Austria Tabakwerke pavilion at Constructa Hannover (1951)
  • Pavilion of the nationalized companies of Austria at Constructa Hannover (1951)
  • Bar Koralle , Vienna 9, Porzellangasse 39 (together with Susi Weigel ) (1951)
  • Höchenschwand eye sanatorium, Black Forest
  • Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna, Vienna 12, Ruckergasse 54-60 (with the architects Karl Hauschka, Herbert Prehsler and Karl Molnar) (1953–1954)
  • Anton-Figl-Hof, Vienna 14, Hernsdorferstraße 22-32 (with the architects Harald Bauer, Fritz Böhm-Raffay, Friedrich Lang, Karl Musel and Rudolf Pamlitschka) (1956-1958)

Awards

  • State Prize (1932)
  • Rome Prize (Austrian State Travel Grant) (1935)

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literature

  • Helmut Weihsmann: Built in Vienna. Lexicon of 20th Century Viennese Architects. Vienna (2005). P. 54 (gives wrong year and place of death).
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1. 1992, p. 531 (names wrong year and place of death).
  • Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Vienna (1980) (gives wrong place of death).
  • Iris Meder: Open Worlds (PDF; 2.5 MB). The Viennese school in single-family house construction 1910–1938. Meder's dissertation contains Bruno Buzek's short biography and “Architectural Catalog raisonné” on page 611.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Retz parish baptismal register, the place of death of Vienna , which has so far been reported in the biographical literature, is officially incorrect: Parish Retz: baptismal register 1899-1916. 02-Baptism 0309 (See: Online matriculation books: Archdiocese of Vienna, Parish Retz, Baptism Book 1899-1916, 02-Baptism 0309.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check Link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.matricula.findbuch.net  
  2. ↑ They married on October 9, 1937 in Berlin and divorced a few years later. Information provided by the Vienna-Margareten registry office on August 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Iris Meder: Open Worlds (PDF; 2.5 MB). The Viennese school in single-family house construction 1910–1938. Meder's dissertation contains Bruno Buzek's “Architectural Catalog raisonné” on p. 611.
  4. ↑ Konrad Bayer: Complete Works. Vienna (1996). the sixth Sense. 573ff. 588f.
personal data
SURNAME Buzek, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Retz
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1973
Place of death Korneuburg