Friedrich Mahler

Former homeless shelter (1908), Kastanienallee 2, by Karl Krepp, Friedrich Mahler and Albrecht Michler

Friedrich Mahler (born January 24, 1878 in Vienna , † August 11, 1948 in Traunkirchen ) was an Austrian architect and city architect. He is not identical to an engineer Friedrich Mahler, who was born in 1888 and built for the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde.

Life

Friedrich Mahler attended the structural engineering department of the Vienna State Trade School, which he graduated from in 1896 with the final exam. After that he worked at first practically before he studied from 1901 to 1904 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class with Otto Wagner . Here he got to know his classmate Albrecht Michler , with whom he opened a joint construction firm after completing his master builder examination in 1905, which Karl Krepp also joined in around 1910 . The company was successful in public buildings before the First World War. After the war, only one building that Mahler designed is documented. He settled in Traunkirchen in Upper Austria in 1932 and withdrew his trade license in 1939. After Mahler's death, his widow resumed and continued operations in Vienna.

meaning

Friedrich Mahler's early designs were influenced by Otto Wagner's school. Mahler's special contribution can no longer be reconstructed in the public buildings executed jointly with Karl Krepp and Albrecht Michler. The only building from the late period that he designed by himself shows the design elements of the New Objectivity.

Works

• Execution of the Wiener Frauenheim , Frauenheimgasse 2, Vienna 12 (1906), together with Karl Krepp and Albrecht Michler
• Asylum for the homeless , Kastanienallee 2, Vienna 12 (1908), together with Karl Krepp and Albrecht Michler
• Master builder work at the Central Vocational School, Mollardgasse 32, Vienna 6 (1908–1912), together with Karl Krepp and Albrecht Michler
• Grain store (now a hotel), Handelskai 269, Vienna 2 (1911–1913), together with Karl Krepp and Albrecht Michler
• Rental house , Am Modenapark 6, Vienna 3 (1930)

Web links

• Friedrich Mahler. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.