Cesar Poppovits

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Cesar Poppovits (born February 9, 1876 in Vienna ; † June 6, 1938 there ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Cesar Poppovits attended the Schottenfelder Realschule and completed the construction school at the Technical University under Karl König , which he graduated in 1901 with the 2nd state examination. After completing his studies, Poppovits briefly took up an internship at the Vienna City Building Department. At the age of 29, C. Poppovits was a freelance architect, civil architect in Vienna in 1907 and chief architect of the "First International Applied Arts Exhibition" in St. Petersburg in 1908, with the management and artistic design of the Austrian department. Poppovits planned several spatial artistic works and in 1909 carried out the largest group, the “Applied Arts”, at the “Hunting Exhibition” in Vienna. Poppovits also dealt with home furnishings and the redesign of various posh restaurants.

As part of his occupation with exterior architectural work, gardens and terrace structures were created like in front of the Kursalon in the city park .

In the building construction sector, Poppovits was only able to realize municipal buildings. In Josefstadt , where Poppovits lived all his life, he built the two most important residential complexes, the “Ludo-Hartmann-Hof” and the “Therese Schlesinger-Hof”. In addition, Poppovits also planned university institutes and clinics, schools and important urban development projects abroad. Poppovits also tried to redesign the art of graves and memorials in a modern way and founded the first company for “Viennese cemetery art ” in 1912 together with the visual artists Alfred Basel and Leopold Forstner . Cesar Poppovits died in Vienna at the age of 62.

Realizations

  • 1911 Interior design of the restaurant "To the large tobacco pipe", Vienna 1, Jasomirgottstrasse 6
  • 1913 Interior of the cellar restaurant "Regina" in the Palais Angerer , Vienna 9, Maximilianplatz (today: Rooseveltplatz)
  • 1923–1925 Municipal housing “ Ludo Hartmann -Hof” Vienna 8, Albertgasse 13–17
  • 1929–1930 Municipal housing “ Therese Schlesinger -Hof”, Vienna 8, Schlösselgasse 14 / Wickenburggasse 15

Web links

Commons : Cesar Poppovits  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cesar Poppovits in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ AR: The restaurant "To the large tobacco pipe". Built by architect Cesar Poppovits - Vienna . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 30, April 1912 - September 1912, pp. 244-259 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Therese-Schlesinger-Hof residential complex. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on June 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Poppovits, Cesar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1938
Place of death Vienna