Ernst squadron

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Ernst Schwadron (born July 1, 1896 in Vienna , † February 3, 1979 in New York State ) was an Austrian interior designer .

Life

He was the eldest son of the building contractor Viktor Schwadron, founder and partner of the building and ceramics company Brothers Schwadron . The company headquarters was the residential and commercial building at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, built in 1904 by the architect Julius Goldschläger .

Ernst Schwadron studied at the Vienna State Trade School and also attended the ceramics class at the School of Applied Arts with Michael Powolny for a year . In the late 1920s and 1930s he was particularly successful as an interior designer in Vienna and is one of the protagonists of “Viennese living space culture”. His work has been published in specialist journals such as interior decoration , modern building forms , architecture, living form , German art and decoration or Die Kunst .

His first and perhaps only built building in Austria, the Lederer beach house in Greifenstein (1927), was demolished in 2011. In 1930 he hired a. a. finished his penthouse apartment on the top floor at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, which was furnished with self-designed furniture and carpets by the artist Erna Lederer-Mendel (his first wife).

After the National Socialists invaded Austria in 1938, Schwadron emigrated to New York, where he worked as chief designer at the Rena Rosenthal furniture company from 1939 and founded the Ernst Schwadron Inc. furniture company in 1944. In New York, Schwadron also worked with Viennese emigrants such as the architect Leopold Kleiner and the craftsperson Emmy Zweybrück . Its facilities have been featured in US journals such as B. Interiors . He published for the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau, which appears in New York .

In Cold Spring , New York, he built his own house for himself and his second wife Gladys (née Bradshell) in the early 1950s. Schwadron died at the age of 82 in New York and is buried in Connecticut .

In 2012 the artist Heidrun Holzfeind designed a comprehensive exhibition project at BAWAG Contemporary about his work and life.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Schwadron. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  2. ^ AS Frischauer: Small country house on the river bank. By architect Ernst Schwadron , Vienna. In: Das Schöne Heim, Vol. 3, 1932, pp. 218–221.
  3. ^ Heidrun Holzfeind - Bawag Contemporary
  4. ↑ Strictly Private , an installation by the artist Heidrun Holzfeind about Ernst Schwadron
personal data
SURNAME Squadron, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1979
Place of death New York State