Eugene Rudolf Heger
Eugen Rudolf Heger (born July 21, 1892 in Guntramsdorf ; † November 18, 1954 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .
Life
Heger attended secondary school in Wiener Neustadt and, after graduating from high school, studied structural engineering at the Technical University in Vienna from 1912 to 1914 . After the First World War he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1918 to 1920 with Friedrich Ohmann , but passed his diploma with Franz von Krauss . He worked first in Vienna and then in Estonia . From 1924 he was a freelance architect in Vienna, where he carried out some buildings for the municipality of Vienna. In 1930 he switched to teaching and was initially in Graz at the Federal Institute for Building and Applied Arts, assistant teacher, from 1931 federal teacher and from 1935 advanced training inspector for Styria . After he was retired in 1939, he was planning manager in the area of Luftgaukommando XVII and manager of several large construction sites during the war years. In 1945 Heger became a consultant at the State Office for Public Enlightenment, which later became the Ministry of Education. In 1946 he was appointed to the Graz University of Technology as an associate professor for building construction and design. From 1952 to 1954 he was dean of the Faculty of Architecture.
meaning
As an architect, Eugen Rudolf Heger was only able to build a few buildings for the municipality of Vienna in the 1920s. These were small projects. A change from an initially expressive formal language to an objective, functional conception can be observed in his buildings.
Works
- Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna , Cervantesgasse 9, Vienna 14 (1928)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Puchsbaumgasse 11–13, Vienna 10 (1929)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Meiselstraße 67, Vienna 15 (1930)
Web links
- Eugene Rudolf Heger. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heger, Eugene Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heger, Eugen Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guntramsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1954 |
| Place of death | Vienna |