Fritz Keller (architect)

Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5 office building by Fritz Keller

Fritz Keller , actually Friedrich Kohn (born August 17, 1878 in Schlackenwerth , † December 14, 1938 in Vienna ), was an Austrian architect .

Life

Fritz Keller was of Jewish origin and his real family name was Kohn . He studied from 1897 to 1903 at the building school of the Technical University in Vienna with Karl Mayreder , with whom he also did an internship from 1900 to 1901. In 1901 he had his name officially changed to Keller . After obtaining his diploma, Keller worked from 1903 to 1905 as assistant to Karl Mayreder's chair for architecture, architectural drawing and painting perspective at the Technical University. In 1905 the doctorate to Dr. techn. From 1906 he worked as a freelance architect, and between 1910 and 1912 he entered into a studio community with his former classmate Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando . Keller died in unexplained circumstances in 1938 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery. Fritz Keller's son was the musician and musicologist Hans Keller (1919–1985), who moved to England in 1938.

meaning

Fritz Keller only built residential and office buildings, most of which were built before the First World War. He mostly worked with other architects, whose handwriting can be more or less clearly read on the buildings. There are late historical and secessionist facade designs as well as more austere-looking, neoclassical designs that are close to the Wiener Werkstätte . For the only residential complex from the 1920s that he realized, the Viennese municipal building style is again the model.

Works

• Rental house , Bräuhausgasse 11, Vienna 5 (1903)
• Residential house , Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 105, Vienna 13 (1908–1909), together with Alfred Konnerth
• Miethaus , Wehrgasse 22, Vienna 5 (1910), together with Fritz Herzmanovsky
• Rental houses , Czartoryskigasse 5 and 7, Vienna 18 (1911–1912), together with Fritz Herzmanovsky
• Residential house , Loquaiplatz 13, Vienna 6 (1912), together with Adolf Jelletz
• Residential house , Kandlgasse 35, Vienna 7 (1912–1913)
• Residential building , Kandlgasse 37, Vienna 7 (1912)
• Office building of the City of Vienna , Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5, Vienna 8 (1913–1914)
• Residential building , Sieveringer Strasse 23, Vienna 19 (1925)
• Beach house in Strombad , Donaulände 12, Strombad Kritzendorf (1929), together with Anton Potyka

Web links

Commons : Fritz Keller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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