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Ernst Lichtblau (born June 24, 1883 in Vienna ; † January 8, 1963 there ) was an Austrian architect and designer.

education

The son from an assimilated Jewish family (his father was the manager of a factory for meerschaum pipes ) graduated from the state trade school in Schellinggasse in downtown Vienna in 1902 , to which he would later (1906 to 1914) return as a teacher of furniture drawing. From 1902 to 1905 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in Otto Wagner's master class .

Life

From 1910 to 1939 Lichtblau worked as a freelance architect in Vienna. From 1910 to 1920 he also worked as a freelancer for the Wiener Werkstätte , later he was in close contact with the social democratic community of Vienna ( Red Vienna ), led a housing advice service, the advice center for interior design (BEST), in the Karl-Marx-Hof and worked on municipal housing with. To Lichtblau's most famous buildings include the account of its facade design with dark brown Majolikaschmuck the company Wienerberger so-called "chocolate house" in Vienna- Hietzing , part of the Paul-Speiser-yard and a double house in Vienna's Werkbundsiedlung .

In 1939 Lichtblau had to emigrate, he reached the USA by way of Great Britain and became a respected teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design .

In 1990 in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) Lichtblaustraße was named after him, in Vienna- Margareten (5th district) there is an Ernst-Lichtblau-Park .

Buildings

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1913	Villa Dr. Filek	Vienna 13, Linzackergasse 9 location
		1914	Chocolate house BDA-ID:  41611 Wikidata	Vienna 13, Wattmanngasse 29 location
		1914	Villa Dr. Hoffmann	Vienna 13, Kupelwiesergasse 29 location
		1915-1918	Orthopedic hospital	Vienna 5, Gassergasse 44–46 Location	Note: currently school building
		1922	two family houses	Vienna 13, Meytensgasse 20–22 location
		1923-1924	factory	Vienna 6, Millergasse 6 location	destroyed
		1923-1924	Reconstruction and new facade of the residential and commercial building "Zum schwarzen Mohr" (seat of the company Adolf Lichtblau smoking props),	Vienna 7, Hermanngasse 17 location
		1926	Interior decoration jewelry store	Baden coordinates are missing! Help.
		around 1926	Paul-Speiser-Hof (component II) BDA-ID:  9990 Wikidata	Vienna 21, Franklinstrasse 20 location
		1926-1927	Julius-Ofner-Hof BDA-ID:  6429 Wikidata	Vienna 5, Margaretengürtel 22 location
		around 1930	Perles Bookstore	Vienna	destroyed
		around 1930	Unger clothing store	Vienna 3	destroyed
		around 1930	Shoe store Popper	Vienna 1st	destroyed
		around 1930	Schlossberg umbrella shop	Vienna 1, Ringstrasse	destroyed
		1930-1932	Werkbundsiedlung double house	Vienna 13, Jagdschlossgasse 88–90 Location
		1932	Interior decoration of the houses of Hugo Häring, Eugen Wachberger and Arthur Grünberger, Wiener Werkbundsiedlung	Vienna 13	Movables
		1933	Workers' library in the turf city	Vienna 10, Raxstraße 15 location
		1934	Promenade café	Vienna 1, Parkring 20	destroyed
		1948	Apartment Ernst Lichtblau	Providence, Rhode Island, USA Coordinates are missing! Help.
		1948	Home remodeling and furnishing David Fish	Rhode Island, USA coordinates are missing! Help.
		1962-1963	School Vienna 16 BDA-ID:  76081 Wikidata	Grundsteingasse 48 location	Note: with Norbert Schlesinger

Exhibitions

photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1910	Werkbund exhibition in the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry	Vienna	destroyed
		1912	Spring exhibition of the Austrian arts and crafts (garden pavilion)	Vienna	destroyed
		1913	Exhibition of the Austrian wallpaper link rust and linoleum industry, Vienna		destroyed
		1914	Garden design exhibition	Vienna	destroyed
		1918-1938	Installation of the exhibition "Sculpture 1850–1950" in the Museum of Fine Arts of the University of Rhode Island School of Design in Providence	Rhode Island, USA	destroyed
		1919	arts and crafts exhibition	Vienna	destroyed
		1923	Works of modern Austrian handicrafts	Vienna	Movables
		1923-1924	Werkbund exhibition "Die Form"	Stuttgart, D.	destroyed
		1925	Paris International Handicraft Exhibition	F.	destroyed Note: Golden medal
		1927	Austrian arts and crafts exhibition in Essen	D.	destroyed
		1927	Design exhibition at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry	Vienna	destroyed
		1928	Exhibition "Vienna and the Viennese"	Vienna	destroyed
		1929	Christmas show	Künstlerhaus Vienna	destroyed
		1929	Austria at the international architecture exhibition (sports shop)	Paris, F.	destroyed
		1929	Viennese spatial artist in the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry (residential area)	Vienna	destroyed
		1929-1930	Wiener Werkbund exhibition	Museum for Art and Industry, Vienna	destroyed
		1930	Wiener Werkbund exhibition "The good cheap object"	Vienna	destroyed
		1931	International space exhibition in Cologne	D.	destroyed
		1949	Exhibition of Modern Living	Detroit Institute of Arts, USA	destroyed
		1950	Haiti Bicentennial Exposition in Port-au-Prince	Haiti	Movables
		1953	Traveling exhibition "America Design"	compiled by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for Europe	destroyed

literature

• Max Eisler: Jungwiener Baukunst Ernst Lichtblau and Walter Sobotka . In: Moderne Baufformen, Vol. 25, 1926, pp. 73–112.
• August Sarnitz : Ernst Lichtblau, architect (1883–1963). Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-205-05513-6 .
• Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin, 18th to 20th centuries . 3 volumes. tape 2 . KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 826 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Lichtblau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ernst Lichtblau in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Ernst light blue. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Ernst light blue. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-Marx-Hof. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .