Carlo from Boog

Carlo von Boog (* 1854 in Magenta (Lombardy) ; † November 26, 1905 in Vienna as Carlo Boog ) was an Austrian architect and kuk regional building officer . Most recently, he was the head of the Lower Austrian Building Department and is a well-known representative of Art Nouveau .

Life

Carlo von Boog spent his childhood in what was then Austrian Upper Italy. He attended school in Venice , then moved to the capital Vienna to study engineering at the Vienna University of Technology . After completing his studies, von Boog initially worked as a journalist for technical journals.

Administration building of the State Clinic in Mauer near Amstetten by Carlo von Boog

Boog gained relevant experience with the expansion of the Kierling-Gugging and Allentsteig institutions and became the architect and project manager of the state hospital for the mentally ill in Mauer near Amstetten , which was built from 1898 to 1902 as an Art Nouveau building in the so-called pavilion construction. Carlo von Boog was also entrusted with the planning of the Lower Austrian State Healing and Nervous Asylum at Steinhof , which opened in 1907. This hospital was also designed as a pavilion facility. The site plan and the church at Steinhof were designed by the architect Otto Wagner , while the hospital pavilions, the famous Art Nouveau theater and the administration and kitchen buildings were designed by Carlo von Boog and Franz Berger, the architects of the women's clinics at the Vienna General Hospital in 1904. During the planning, von Boog had heated arguments with Wagner.

In Lower Austrian regional services, he earned services in bridge and road construction, which earned him honorary citizenship of more than 30 communities. In 1899 von Boog submitted the patent with the number 4670 for "concrete ceiling with iron inlay made of iron girders and flat bars placed on edge without mutual connection".

Carlo von Boog remained a bachelor throughout his life. For his mother he built the "Villa Betonia" in Kleinwien . His four younger brothers, including the later field marshal lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army, Adolf von Boog and two sisters lived with their families in Kleinwien with him during the summer months. His father Wenzel Boog was an Austrian police advisor and was raised to hereditary nobility on the occasion of his retirement in 1899. Therefore, the son had the "von" in his name since he was 45 years old. Like his father, he was a knight of the Franz Joseph Order . Carlo von Boog died of a heart condition at the age of 51. He was forgotten soon after his death and was not rediscovered until the 1980s.

literature

• Elisabeth Koller-Glück, Peter Kunerth: Carlo von Boog and Mauer-Öhling. The Kaiser Franz Joseph-Landes sanatorium and nursing home Mauer-Öhling. An art nouveau jewel in Lower Austria. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85326-863-3 .