Felix Angelo Pollak

Felix Angelo Pollak (born June 2, 1882 in Baden near Vienna , † September 15, 1936 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect.

Life

Memorial plaque on the house, Köpenicker Allee 39, in Berlin-Karlshorst

Felix Angelo Pollak came from a Jewish family. To her belonged his parents Samuel Pollak († 1905) and Emma Bellina Pollenz (* 1853) and the younger brother Carl Josef Pollak, who later became a painter. Felix Pollak attended a secondary school in Vienna. From 1901 to 1903 he studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna and graduated from the Technical University in Graz in 1911 . In 1914 he went to the front as a volunteer. He served as a first lieutenant and received several awards. At the same time he taught at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . Despite his Jewish origins, he converted to Catholicism, which also earned him many assignments. Among other things, he built a six-storey school and nurses' home in 1930/31 as an extension to the monastery of the servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Vienna. This collaboration earned him the nickname Herz-Jesu-Pollak . Pollak was with Josefine, geb. Frieberg, married until they divorced in 1926. He stayed in England in the 1930s. He died in 1936 of calcification of the arteries.

Awards

• silver military merit medal
• bronze military merit medal with swords, Karl-Troop Cross
• 1934 Great Merit of the Republic of Austria

buildings

• 1923–1924 Villa, Vienna 18, Hockegasse 73
• 1921 Villa, Vienna 18, Hasenauerstrasse 61
• 1928 Vienna 4, Weyringergasse 16-18
• 1929 Villa, Vienna 19, Windhabergasse 6-8
• 1930–1931 School and nurses' home of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , Vienna 3, Landstraßer Hauptstraße 137A
• 1930 St. Antonius Hospital in Berlin (today the seat of the Catholic University of Social Sciences)
• around 1933 rental house, Vienna 1, Laurenzerberg 3 (with Leo Kammel )
• 1932 Portal László Ungar, Vienna 6, Mariahilfer Strasse 74
• 1934 Rosa Eibuschitz grave, Vienna 19, Döblinger Friedhof
• 1933 concrete roads in England
• 1934 concrete road on Monte Ceneri (Ticino)

Publications

• The first skyscraper in Vienna. In: Österreichische Bauzeitung 8.1932, no. 45, p. 571ff.
• Concrete roads. In: ZÖIAV , 85.1933, p. 183.
• Concrete roads in England. In: ZÖIAV , 85.1933, p. 202.
• The concrete roads on Monte Ceneri (Canton Ticino). In: ZÖIAV , 86.1934, p. 15.
• The new bridge between Venice and the mainland. In: ZÖIAV , 86.1934, p. 124.
• New concrete roads in Bergamo. In: ZÖIAV , 86.1934, p. 233.
• Notifications about concrete roads. In: ZÖIAV 88.1936, p. 300.

Web links

Commons : Felix Angelo Pollak  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography of Felix Angelo Pollak in the architectural dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From hospital to university ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 15.5 MB) berlin.de, accessed on November 30, 2012.  
2. ↑ Felix Angelo Pollak architektenlexikon.at, accessed on November 30, 2012.
3. ↑ Monument of the Month April - Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin (KHSB), former St. Antonius Hospital ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 121 kB) berlin.de, accessed on November 30, 2012.