Carl Oswald & Co.
Carl Oswald & Co. , also spelled Karl Oswald & Co. , was a bronze chandelier and metal goods factory in Vienna .
history
The first beginnings go back to the year 1821. The founder, Johann Mayer, a citizen and master coppersmith in Vienna, had operated the coppersmith trade with lively. Josef Klemm, also a master coppersmith, took over the business from him in 1844 and was able to expand his specialist knowledge through trips to England , Germany , France and the Netherlands to such an extent that he later became purveyor to the court , imperial councilor and others.
Especially when the travel to England he had the opportunity, the installation and waterworks business to learn, because this type of industry was operated there first. In order to take advantage of his experience, he set up his business at the time, and his services in the sanitary-technical relationship were of particular importance.
In the absence of male heirs to Klemms, the business was transferred to the company "Carl Oswald & Co." in 1889 and, under Klemms student engineer Wlassack and two others, Carl Oswald and Arthur Pollak, had taken on large dimensions especially the chandelier production was added.
Due to the local conditions, the factory that was then in Ungargasse had to be moved to a specially built establishment in Seidlgasse 23 in III. Move to the Landstrasse district , which was set up with large, most modern machines at the time. The chandelier factory was continued there by the partners Carl Oswald and Arthur Pollak, who were both technically and commercially active.
The factory worked not only for the needs in Austria , but also extensively for foreign countries and had distinguished itself through the facilities of hotels and public buildings. These included the royal Croatian-Slavonian regional and national theater in Agram , the Prague palace of the Assicurazioni Generali , the meeting room of the Austrian Sparcasse , the buildings of the Vienna Voluntary Rescue Society , the Bodencreditanstalt , the Graz Mutuals , the new barracks in the Prater ( Archduke Albrecht army barracks and Archduke Wilhelm barracks ) and the end of the 19th century the big commercial club house in Linz .
Drafts, drawings, etc. were made in our own studio with the involvement of both domestic and foreign arts and crafts. Around 1900 the company had branches in Budapest , Prague, Trieste and Brno .
The owner Arthur Pollak was awarded the title of imperial and royal purveyor to the court .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f g Carl Oswald & Co. In: Presented by the industrialists of Austria under the high protectorate of His K. and K. Highness of the Most Serene Archduke Franz Ferdinand (ed.): Die Gross-Industrie Oesterreichs . Festival ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I. Volume 2 . Leopold Weiss, Vienna 1898, III. Metal industry, p. 384 .
- ↑ Handbook of the Supreme Court and the Court of His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty . Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei , Vienna 1907, p. 241 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 23.2 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 23.5" E