Hans Glas (architect)

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Hans Glas (born September 11, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † after 1960 in Lugano , Switzerland ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Handelskai 210, Vienna 2
Wilbrandtgasse 37, Vienna 18

Hans Glas was the son of the Jewish master tailor Isidor Glas († 1937) and Caroline Glas, née Schwarz. He had three brothers, Egon (* 1888), Richard (* 1890) and Emil (* 1894).

After attending secondary school in Vienna's inner city , he first studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in 1911/1912 and from 1912 until he was called to military service in 1915, architecture there with Max von Ferstel , Franz von Krauss , Max Fabiani and Adolf Loos . After the First World War , he finished his architecture studies at the Building School of the Technical University of Vienna and passed the 2nd state examination in 1920. He also practiced for the Viennese construction company Robert Fleischl, where he was involved in building the barracks in Kaiserebersdorf . Glas married Olga Taus (s) ig (1896–1937) from Laun .

His first proven own design is the residential building at Handelskai 210 in Vienna- Leopoldstadt , which was completed in 1928 and is now a listed building . In 1928 and 1912 he attended lectures at the Technical University of Vienna as a guest auditor . The villa of the doctor couple Dr. Rezek in Wilbrandtgasse 37 in the Cottage Quarter , a terrace house designed in the New Objectivity style, which was also discussed in the professional world.

In 1938, the year Austria was annexed, Glas emigrated to Calcutta , British India . It is known that in 1939 he requested a birth certificate from the Jewish community for the exit passport. He was friends with the dancer and choreographer Hilde Holger , who also emigrated to Bombay in 1939 . In the 1960s, he was on the Swiss Lugano return to Vienna, but died already during the prolonged stay in Lugano.

Hans Glas should not be confused with the architect Hans Glaser (1873–1950), who also worked in Vienna .

Residential buildings

  • 1928: Residential building, Vienna 2, Handelskai 210 / Wachaustraße 37
  • 1932–1933: Villa Dr. Rezek, Vienna 18, Wilbrandtgasse 37
  • around 1933: Single-family house director M., Belgrade
  • 1937: Apartment building, Vienna 19, Pfarrwiesengasse 22 (then Karlsgasse)
  • before 1938: Villa Ladislav and Věra Szathmáry, Pod Žvahovem 8 , Prague

Publications

  • Hans Glas: The own apartment in a two-family house as an example of the application of the housing subsidy laws . In: ZÖIAV 81.1929, p. 455 f.

literature

  • Hans Glas. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  • DT: Glass, Hans . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 17.
  • Max Eisler : A Viennese house in the district of cottage, architect Hans Glas. In: The Studio , CXI (514), January 1936. pp. 43 ff.
  • Architecture of the "New Objectivity" in Calcutta - Hans Glas ; in: Margit Franz: Gateway to India: German-speaking exile in India between British colonial rule, Maharajas and Gandh. Clio, Graz 2015. pp. 303 ff. ISBN 978-3-902542-31-1

Web links

Commons : Hans Glas  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glas, Hans ; in Database of unclaimed Swiss Bank Accounts and other Holocaust Era Assets , Avotaynu, New Haven.
  2. ^ Loos pupil ; in: Stefan Voglhofer: Searching for traces of Adolf Loos. , Schwertberg 2010. p. 6.
  3. ↑ Geographical distribution and career opportunities ; in: Margit Franz: “Passage to India”: Austrian exile in British India 1938–1945. ; published in: Yearbook 2007 of the DÖW (ed.), Vienna et al. 2007. P. 209 f.
personal data
SURNAME Glass, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after 1960
Place of death Lugano , Switzerland