Eugen Gustav Steinhof

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Eugen Steinhof

Eugen Gustav Steinhof (born October 5, 1880 in Vienna , † July 10, 1952 in Los Angeles ) was a Viennese architect , painter , sculptor and civil engineer . He was a student of Otto Wagner , Josef Hoffmann , Henri Matisse and Adolf von Hildebrand .

Live and act

Steinhof was the son of Bernhard Steinhof and Adele Horowitz. He was married to Ida O'Aprile in 1915, Ninon Tallon (Herriot) in 1926 and Maria in 1931. He had two daughters, Maria Beatrix (1915) and Irene.

In 1905 he completed his studies as a civil engineer and architect. From October 1910 he studied sculpture with Adolf von Hildebrand  at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1905 to 1923 he worked as a plastic artist. He made contacts with Arnold Schönberg , among others , and was friends with André Lucart, Le Corbusier , Walter Gropius , Mies van der Rohe , Maurice Ravel , Manuel del Falla , Frank Lloyd Wright , Albert Einstein , Henry van de Velde and Erich Mendelsohn . From 1923 to 1930 he was director of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and had to emigrate to the USA in 1930 due to his Jewish origins. He later taught at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design at New York University , the Cooper Union , the University of Oregon , the University of Southern California and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul . His students included Fritz Wotruba , Rudolf Knörlein , BC Binning, Allie Tennant and Egon Weiner. His books Architecture and The Education of the Architect were influential in the field of architectural education .

Publications

  • Art and Society in: Parnassus Vol. 9, No. 6 (Nov. 1937), pp. 15-19

Exhibitions

  • International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Sculptures, Paris 1925.

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Architect Institute of Brazil
  • Professor “Ad Honorem” at the University of Uruguay's Faculty of Architecture
  • Knight of the Legion of Honor of France

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 03921 Eugen Steinhof in the register book 1884-1920 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ↑ Bakersfield Californian Archives, Sep 3, 1975, p. 25. Accessed August 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ razevedosouza: Research upon Architect Eugen Gustav Steinhof. In: razevedosouza. September 18, 2011, accessed August 11, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Steinhof, Eugen Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect, painter, sculptor and rector
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1952
Place of death los Angeles