Carl Appel (architect)

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Carl Appel (born April 18, 1911 in Vienna ; † February 13, 1997 there ) was an Austrian architect .

biography

Carl Appel first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, then from 1928 to 1933 the Vienna School of Applied Arts , where Oskar Strnad and Carl Witzmann were his teachers. Finally, he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Clemens Holzmeister . During his studies he joined the NSDAP in November 1932 , due to the party ban during the period of Austrofascism , he resigned in June 1933. After graduating, he worked for Carl Witzmann, Oskar Strnad, Erich Boltenstern and Otto Niedermoser as well as a freelance architect.

Appel is one of the architects who worked successfully in the corporate state , the Nazi regime and the Austrian Second Republic. From 1939 to 1944 he built large, war-important industrial plants, on January 1, 1941, he was again a member of the NSDAP. After the end of the war, he avoided registration as a National Socialist by submitting positive letters of good repute from Nazi victims. It was not until 1948 that he was classified as a minor . In the post-war years, Appel was the main winner of the competition for the redesign of Stephansplatz . The redesign of the Neumann department store on Kärntner Strasse , which was destroyed in the war, is considered one of his main works. The large office of Appels, which at times had over 40 architects, was also heavily involved in industrial construction, and with Georg Lippert Appel shaped the Second Ringstrasse style of the reconstruction period .

Appel was buried at the Heiligenstadt cemetery . In 2003 Carl-Appel-Strasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

Works (selection)

M. Neumann department store, today Steffl
  • 1939–1944: Industrial and residential building for the Martin Miller steel works in Traismauer
  • 1949–1950: M. Neumann department store (today: Steffl) at Kärntner Strasse 19 in Vienna
  • 1949–1951: Philip Haas carpet factory in Ebergassing
  • 1951–1953: Haas House in Vienna (demolished 1985)
  • 1953–1954: Office building in Vienna Am Hof 6a
  • 1952–1954: Administration building of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna
  • 1955–1956: Administration building of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG (demolished after fire in 1991)
  • 1955–1957: Opernringhof in Vienna (with Georg Lippert)
  • 1960–1962: Intropa office building in Vienna
  • until 1964: InterContinental Vienna
  • 1970–1973: Pension Insurance Institution for the Commercial Economy in Vienna

literature

  • Carl Appel, architect between yesterday and tomorrow . Vienna 1988.

swell

  1. ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 237, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Appel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Appel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1997
Place of death Vienna