Eduard Kuschée

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Eduard Kuschee, painting by Carl Wurzinger (1861)

Eduard Kuschée (born March 2, 1811 in Troppau , Austrian Silesia , † January 12, 1890 in Alt-Erbersdorf ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Eduard Kuschée was the third of ten children of the farrier Florian Kuschée and his wife Katharina Pospischil. From 1819 to 1826 he attended the district high school in Opava. He then did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and passed the journeyman's examination in 1829. Now he moved to Vienna , where he initially worked for two years as a journeyman for the master builder Ignaz Ram . From 1830 to 1836 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Peter von Nobile , where he won several prizes in the subject of architecture. After completing his studies, he worked as site manager for various projects and drew construction plans. He gained a very good reputation in the process and was popular with builders because of his expertise. From around 1842 Kuschée himself worked as a builder and in 1846 became a town builder. In 1855 he married Karoline Schwarz, with whom he had four children. Together with his wife he traveled large parts of Europe, while his sister Rosa took care of the household and children in Vienna. She also looked after Kuschée's illegitimate son Heinrich Winkler, who later also became a city architect. In 1860, Kuschée founded his own company. From 1869 he was a member of the Society of Visual Artists Vienna . Soon, however, his eyesight deteriorated, so that in 1874 he resigned from the artists' association. When he became completely blind, he gave up his building trade and moved back to Silesia, where he lived with one of his daughters. After his death he was buried with full honors in Opava.

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In addition to the aforementioned work as a site manager and draftsman for other architects, Kuschée worked as a planning architect in Vienna for around forty years. The main focus of his work lies in the period of early historicism , whose development he participated in from the transition of late classicism to the height of historicism. The proportioned, very clear structure is characteristic of his buildings. He built numerous three- to four-story rental houses, but also industrial buildings and hospitals. An early Kuschée building was Otto Wagner's parental home , which, according to Adolf Loos , was formative for him.

Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 13 (1853)
Bösendorferstrasse 2 (1861); this was where Kuschée's office was
  • Rental house , Laimgrubengasse 29 / Fillgradergasse 7 / Bienengasse 8, Vienna 6 (1842)
  • Textildruckfabrik AE Granichstätten , Pillergasse, Vienna 15 (1842), was demolished in 1848 by revolting workers
  • Conversion of the Novy Svietlov Castle (near Troppau) for Countess Larisch (1845)
  • Rental house , Göttweigergasse 1, Vienna 1 (1846–1847), Otto Wagner's parents' house, made by Johann Strahberger
  • Arsenal , Arsenalstrasse / Ghegastrasse / Lilienthalgasse, Vienna 3 (1849–1855), construction work, with master stonemason and master builder Leopold Mayr
  • Hotel Wandl , Petersplatz 9, Vienna 1 (1851), conversion of a house built in 1843 into a hotel
  • Rental house , Schönbrunner Strasse 108, Vienna 5 (1851)
  • Magazine for the Danube Steamship Company in Pissek , Moravia (1851)
  • Residential house , Wallnerstraße 11 / Strauchgasse 1, Vienna 1 (1852)
  • Rental house , Franzensgasse 7–9 / Schönbrunner Strasse 17–19, Vienna 5 (1852), conversion and new facade design
  • Rental house , Landstraßer Hauptstraße 13, Vienna 3 (1853)
  • Reconstruction of the castle of the Count family Traun , Bisamberg (1853)
  • Donau-Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (office building), Hintere Zollamtsstrasse 1, Vienna 3 (1853–1855)
  • Rental house , Josefstädter Strasse 44, Vienna 8 (1854–1855)
  • Gas lighting facility , Gaudenzdorf (1855)
  • Factory in Floridsdorf (1855)
  • Fünfkirchen Railway to Mohács (1855-1859)
  • Warehouse for the state railway , Leopoldstadt (1857)
  • Bösendorfer house , Türkenstrasse 9, Vienna 9 (1857–1858), today Kommunalkredit Austria AG
  • Dumba-Hof , Löwengasse 2b / Obere Weißgerberstraße 14, Vienna 3 (1859–1860), with Anton Baumgarten
  • Rental house , Radetzkystraße 8, Vienna 3 (1860)
  • Rental house , Bösendorferstraße 2, Vienna 1 (1861)
  • Rental house , Franz-Josefs-Kai 45, Vienna 1 (1861), birthplace of Martin Buber
  • Rental house , Radetzkystraße 7, Vienna 3 (1861)
  • Rental house , Karlsplatz 1, Vienna 1 (1862)
  • Rental house , Graben 30, Vienna 1 (1866), largely destroyed in 1945, restored
  • Exhibition pavilion of the Mautner Markhof company for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873
  • Mautner Markhof'sches Children's Hospital , Schlachthausgasse 30, Vienna 3 (1874–1875)

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personal data
SURNAME Kuschée, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuschee, Eduard Franz; Kuschée, Eduard; Kusché, Eduard; Kosche, Eduard; Cuddle, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1890
Place of death Alt-Erbersdorf