Carl Witzmann

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Carl Witzmann (born September 26, 1883 in Vienna ; † August 29, 1952 there ) was an Austrian architect , interior designer and set designer .

Life

Carl Witzmann, son of an innkeeper from Vienna-Erdberg , completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studied from 1900 to 1904 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in the architecture class with Hermann Herdtle and Josef Hoffmann . He remained connected to Hoffmann all his life. From around 1901 Witzmann worked as a freelance architect in Vienna. From 1908 to 1915 he also taught at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. He became a member of the Austrian and the German Werkbund . From 1915 to 1918 Witzmann served as a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 to 1945 he was a professor at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, until 1923 in the subject of general form theory, later as head of the specialist class for interior design and furniture construction . One of his most important works was the redesign of the theater in Josefstadt based on the model of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice .

Witzmann was a busy architect all his life, who also designed furniture, carpets, lamps and other everyday objects for the Wiener Werkstätte and for well-known companies such as Thonet , Backhausen and Lobmeyr . After Austria's "annexation" to Nazi Germany , he mainly designed exhibition concepts and theater conversions for propaganda purposes . After the Second World War , Carl Witzmann was temporarily banned from his profession and although he became an associate professor in 1948, he retired that same year. Most recently he worked as a freelance architect.

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Works

The building at La Roche Gasse 13 shows the influence of Josef Hoffmann
  • 1907 Villa, Vienna 13, Kienmayergasse 37–39
  • 1910 Villa, Vienna 13, Eitelbergergasse 9
  • 1911 Villa, Vienna 13, Meytensgasse 4
  • 1911–1913 Villa Ungar, Vienna 13, Beckgasse 32
  • 1912 Villa, Vienna 13, Münichreiterstraße 32
  • 1912 "Hackinger Hof" house, Vienna 13, Auhofstraße 189 (part of the St. Josef Hospital )
  • 1912 residential building, Vienna 23, Rudolf-Waisenhorn-Gasse 90
  • 1913 Villa, Vienna 13, Eitelbergergasse 18
  • 1912–1913 Villa Kortschak, Vienna 13, Veitingergasse 46
  • 1912–1913 Villa Kosmak, Vienna 13, Elßlergasse 8
  • 1913 Villa, Vienna 13, Beckgasse 39
  • 1913 double villa, Vienna 13, Kupelwiesergasse 42-42a
  • 1912–1913 Villa Gerger, Vienna 13, Larochegasse 13 / Elßlergasse 11
  • 1919 House Klein (renovation and adaptation), Vienna 13, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 20
  • 1921 residential building, Vienna 13, Lainzer Strasse 33
  • 1921 Redesign of the former court stables into the trade fair palace
  • 1922–1923 Villa Blum, Vienna 13, Angermayergasse 1
  • 1923–1924 Reconstruction of the Josefstädter Theater, Vienna 8, Josefstädter Straße 26
  • 1923 Villa, Vienna 13, Meytensgasse 19
  • 1925 Villa, Vienna 13, Meytensgasse 27
  • 1927 residential building of the municipality of Vienna, Vienna 15, Oeverseestrasse 25–29
  • 1930 House Witzmann, Vienna 13, St.-Veit-Gasse 76
  • 1931 Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna, Vienna 10, Wienerbergstrasse 10–12
  • 1931 Conversion of the Johann Strauss Theater into the large cinema Scala Wien 4, Favoritenstraße 8
  • 1932 Moulin Rouge , Vienna 1, Walfischgasse 11; Redesign of the interior

literature

  • Robert Kotas (Ed.): Carl Witzmann on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Elbemühl-Verlag, Vienna 1934
  • Margit Claire Bauer: Carl Witzmann's coffee houses. Unprinted diploma thesis, Salzburg 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Witzmann in the architects lexicon of the Architekturzentrum Wien
  2. ↑ Carl Witzmann. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ^ Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann . A theater architect between tradition and modernity. Verlag Mann, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7861-2375-6 , p. 40.
  4. ^ Grave site Carl Witzmann , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 46, Group Extension E, No. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Witzmann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witzmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Art Nouveau architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1952
Place of death Vienna