Carl Schumann (architect)

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Carl Schumann (born December 5, 1827 in Esslingen , † April 29, 1898 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Hotel Kummer , with Ludwig Tischler and Eduard Kaiser (1870–1872)
Palais Landau, Vienna
Palais Lieben-Auspitz, Vienna
Universitätsring House No. 6, Vienna

Carl Schumann studied architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnic from 1844 . On February 2, 1847, he was one of the founders of the Stauffia Association, later the Stauffia Corps . After completing his studies, he went to Vienna in 1850. In Ludwig von Förster's construction office , he carried out the first independent planning, of which the synagogues in Budapest and Timisoara and the administrative building of the Danube Steamship Company in Budapest should be mentioned.

From 1857 to 1869 he headed the structural engineering department of the Austro-Hungarian State Railroad Company. During this time he carried out the construction of the Vienna State Railway Station, also known as the Ostbahnhof, as well as the construction of some official buildings and numerous rental houses. In many of these works he worked with Wilhelm von Flattich .

In 1869 he switched to the Vienna Construction Company as construction director and managing director, and he managed their business until 1898. In 1873 he was also appointed to the company's board of directors. There he worked with the architects Ludwig Tischler and Theodor Bach . In addition to planning various hotels, especially for the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , the company concentrated on the planning and construction of prestigious rental houses in the inner city area of ​​Vienna. More than one hundred houses were built by the company under the leadership of Schumann, which still shape the cityscape of Vienna today. Some of them are included in the list of listed objects in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City .

Through his involvement in numerous boards of directors and commissions, Schumann was one of the most important personalities in Viennese society.

Buildings

Awards

Offices and memberships

  • From 1852 until his death, Schumann was a member of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, of which he was part of the board.
  • In 1873 he became a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative
  • From 1878 he belonged to the committee of the Austrian engineer u. Architects' association for the new building regulations for Vienna from 1883.
  • From 1889 to 1891 he was a member of the board of directors of the First Austrian Construction and Transport Company.
  • He was also a member of the board of directors of the Wiener Spiegelglasversicherungsgesellschaft.
  • From 1889 to 1898 he was a member of the examination committee of the Vienna University of Technology .

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Schumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Heydt: Chronicle of the Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 115
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1898
Place of death Vienna