Heinz Karbus

Heinz Karbus in front of the Hoffmann-Pistorius hunting lodge and holiday home in 2002

Heinz Karbus (born February 21, 1927 in Bad Ischl ; † February 1, 2015 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Heinz Karbus was born as the fourth child of Maria, née Karbus, widowed Leschetizky-Puchinger. He spent his youth in the summer villa of the legendary pianist, piano teacher and composer Theodor Leschetitzky in Bad Ischl, who inherited that of his daughter-in-law (she was married to Robert Leschetizky , the only son of Theodor Leschetizky and his 2nd wife Annette Essipoff ). Karbus came into contact with music and literature at an early age in this house, which was particularly due to his half-sister, the pianist Ilse Leschetizky . He completed his primary school in Bad Ischl at the Protestant elementary school and the public boys' high school, an elementary school semester with his uncle in Tetschen in Czechoslovakia .

Starting in 1941, Heinz Karbus continued his training at the Hallstatt Wood School in Hallstatt in the construction and cabinet making department. Here he completed his carpenter apprenticeship. His teachers were the brothers Ferdinand Peter, a student of Heinrich Tessenow and the architect Hans Peter, a student of Oskar Strnad . On their recommendation, he applied to the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 1944 , but could not begin his studies because he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service for earthwork and forest work on the Ostwall in Silesia and Poland and then to the German Wehrmacht . After training in Wels and Nuremberg and briefly at the front in the tank battle in the Aschaffenburg and Würzburg area , he became an American prisoner of war, where he worked as a carpenter, bartender and interpreter at the United States Air Force base near Laon . At Christmas 1945 he was able to return home to Bad Ischl and worked as a carpenter and construction draftsman in the Alfred Koller joinery.

In 1946 he finally began studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna - initially in the general class, but soon in the master class for architecture, which was directed by Oswald Haerdtl . During the holidays he made detailed drawings for Viennese architects and worked in the studio of the architect Karl Schwanzer .

In 1949 Heinz Karbus was invited as a student nominated by the Academy to the International Summer Seminar for Architecture and Urban Planning at American Universities in Haslev / Copenhagen . There he received formative impressions of Scandinavian architecture, especially the work of Arne Jacobsen . In 1950 he was awarded the State Prize of the Ministry of Education for his diploma project on the new building of the Haashaus on Stephansplatz in Vienna , which was destroyed by bombs in the war . In 1951 he founded his architecture studio in Bad Ischl and married the actress Gertrude Kugler in 1955. In 1956 and 1961 the children Heinz-Oliver and Gabriele were born.

From 1962 to 1989 Karbus taught design and construction of wooden furniture as well as building joinery at the HTBLA Hallstatt . In 1983 he was appointed senior teacher by the then Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger . For health reasons, Heinz Karbus had to close his studio in 1989 and stop teaching. From 1994 to 1999 he did his doctorate at the Technical University of Vienna at the Institute for Architecture and Art History, Building Research and Monument Preservation (Prof. Martin Kubelik) on "Structural development of the health resorts Bad Ischl and Karlsbad / Karlovy Vary from their beginnings up to 1997".

Works (selection)

• 1951 Sales pavilion Photo Hugo Hofer, Kreuzplatz Bad Ischl, construction and interior design (destroyed)
• 1951–1955 Gasthof Goldenes Hufeisen, Franz Abpurg, Bad Ischl, Pfarrgasse Reconstruction and furnishing of the kitchen, dining rooms, guest rooms, facade (partially destroyed)
• 1952 Hunting weapons of Springers' heirs, Bad Ischl, Schulgasse, portal and furnishings (destroyed)
• 1953 Project: Reconstruction of the Lehartheater , Kreuzplatz Bad Ischl
• 1953–1954 Bad Ischl health resort, Bahnhofstrasse, new building and interior design
• 1954 Project: Enrico-Fermi Memorial in Chicago (with Helmut Höpflinger)
• 1954 Project: Hotel Seeschlössl am Leuchtturm, St. Wolfgang, (with Helmut Höpflinger)
• 1954 Weinberger tobacco shop, Bad Ischl, Auböckplatz, portal and interior fittings (destroyed)
• 1955 Optician Zwerger, Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz Business portal and interior design (changed)
• 1955–1957 Multi-family residential building, Leschetizkystraße Bad Ischl, owned by the Bad Ischl non-profit housing and settlement cooperative
• 1956 Wiesauer carpet shop, Hotel Austria, Bad Ischl, Esplanade, (destroyed)
• 1957–1958 Installation of a theater hall in the Bad Ischl Kurhaus (destroyed)
• 1957 Gasthof Bachwirt / Hippesroither, Bad Ischl, Reiterndorf, hall extension and furnishings
• 1957 Gasthof Moser, Bad Goisern, hall extension and furnishings
• 1957–1958 Neumann single-family home, Bad Ischl, Dr. Sterzweg, new building, partly furnishings
• 1958 Neumann bookstore, Bad Ischl, Pfarrgasse, portal and furnishings (destroyed)
• 1958–1959 Evangelical Church of Peace St. Wolfgang, Salzkammergut, new building and interior design
• 1958–1959 Single-family house Hibler, Gartenstrasse Bad Ischl, new building and partly interior design.
• 1959 Hausotter bakery, Bad Ischl, Reiterndorf, new shop and facility
• 1960 Grocery store Grosspointner, Bad Ischl, Brennerstrasse, extension, portal
• 1959–1961 Gasthof zum Bären, Sydler, Bad Goisern, facade facing main street, hall extension, furnishings (changed)
• 1960 New portico for the Lehar-Lichtspieltheater (formerly the courtyard theater) after partial demolition of the old, wooden one, in 1940, the year of the war (planning in agreement with the Federal Monuments Office)
• 1960–1963 Elementary school and special school Concordiastraße Bad Ischl, new building and interior design (together with Viktor Hufnagl )
• 1961–1962 Anton Quell shoe store, Esplanade Bad Ischl, portal and interior (destroyed)
• 1961–1962 Project: Olympic Church Innsbruck / Evangelical Church Innsbruck Ost (competition second place ex aequo - no first place awarded)
• 1961–1963 Administration building and factory entrance for the electrode factory of Oberösterreichische Kraftwerke AG in Steeg am Hallstättersee, new building and interior design (partially destroyed)
• 1962–1963 Kurhaus Bad Ischl, cloakroom extension on the south side, conversion of the foyer including interior design, new toilet facilities. (destroyed)
• 1963–1964 Hoffmann-Pistorius hunting lodge and holiday home, Bad Ischl, Hinterstein, new building and interior design.
• 1964 Kurhaus Bad Ischl, redesign of the large hall (destroyed by fire during construction)
• 1964–1966 Raiffeisenbank Bad Ischl, Pfandl district, Kirchenplatz, new building and interior design
• 1964–1966 own house in St. Wolfgang, Wirling 31, new building and interior design
• 1964–1966 Möbelhaus Stummer / Vereinigte Tischlerwerkstätten, Gmunden, Bahnhofstrasse, renovation and expansion
• 1965–1966 Kurhaus Bad Ischl, reconstruction after the fire including redesign of the interior. (destroyed)
• 1965–1966 Hunting and holiday home Driescher, Aigen-Voglhub near Strobl on Wolfgangsee, State of Salzburg, new building and parts of the interior
• 1965–1966 Kunstweger plastics factory, Bad Ischl, Götzstrasse, conversion and expansion
• 1965–1967 Single-family house Franz Stummer, Gmunden, Höhenweg New building and interior design
• 1966–1967 Steffner's house on Zauchensee / Altenmarkt, State of Salzburg, new building and parts of the interior
• 1966–1967 Steffner's house on Zauchensee / Altenmarkt, new building and some furnishings
• 1966–1967 single-family home Wiesauer, Bad Ischl, Pfandl, new building
• 1967–1969 Federal Institute for Adult Education St. Wolfgang (BIFEB) and Summer College of the University of Vienna , cafeteria and administration building in Strobl on Wolfgangsee, new building and interior design
• 1968–1970 Sparkasse Bad Ischl , main institute, Bad Ischl, Auböckplatz, new building and interior design (destroyed)
• 1968–1973 zoning plan of the city of Bad Ischl, general concept in plan and brief.
• 1969 As part of the zoning planning (point in front), draft of a footpath from the Kurmittelhaus – Catholic Church – Schulgasse – Kurpark (first part was realized from 1990)
• 1969–1971 owner-occupied residential building with 24 residential units and underground car park of the non-profit building and settlement cooperative, Bad Ischl, Steinfeldstrasse 14, Bad Ischl.
• 1969–1971 butcher Anton Streibl, work rooms, business and apartments, Bad Ischl, Steinfeldstraße, new building and interior design
• 1970–1971 electrode factory of O.Oe. Kraftwerke AG in Steeg on Lake Hallstatt
• 1971–1972 Canaval residential and commercial building, Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz, new building including business equipment for the Kwizda drugstore on the ground floor
• 1971–1972 Raiffeisenbank Gosau, new building and interior design
• 1971–1972 Sparkasse Bad Goisern, new building and interior design
• 1971–1972 studio and residential building I Foto-Hugo-Hofer, Bad Ischl, Schutzenbühel, new building and parts of the interior.
• 1971–1973 House with shoe shop Matthias Panzl, Bad Ischl, Götzstraße, new building and interior design
• 1972 Hotel Goldener Stern, Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz, extension of a garden hall, reconstruction of the hall, interior design of the garden hall, dining hall, hall and wine bar.
• 1972–1973 Branch of the Sparkasse Bad Ischl in St. Wolfgang, main square, design of the cash desk, office, vault.
• 1972–1973 Raiffeisenbank St. Wolfgang, Salzkammergut, renovation and interior design
• 1972–1974 Volksbank Bad Goisern , main square, conversion and expansion, furnishing of the interior
• 1973 Project: New Parkhotel Bauer, Bad Ischl (collaboration: Heribert Krempl and Karl Zeppetzauer)
• 1973–1974 Herbinger House, Bad Ischl, Eglmoosgasse, new building and parts of the interior
• 1973–1974 Preminger house (formerly Taubinger), Bad Ischl, Dumbastraße, conversion and interior design, addition of swimming pool and sauna
• 1973–1975 Jagdhaus Feldmayer, Bad Ischl, Pfandl, new building and interior design
• 1973–1976 Russbach elementary school, municipality of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut , new building and interior design, including conversion of the old school house into a kindergarten and two apartments.
• 1974–1975 Gut Schwarzenbach, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Petrus von Goerschen, extension of a swimming pool
• 1974–1984 Federal College for Woodworking in Hallstatt , Higher Technical College for Furniture and Interior Design, new “workshop building” including interior design, conversion of the old building as “theory building” with interior design, conversion of two outbuildings with a sculptor's department, wood store and school caretaker's apartment
• 1975–1978 Hauptschule 2 Bad Ischl, Schulgasse, conversion of the old stock, extension with classrooms and gym, interior fittings
• 1976–1977 Artweger plastics factory, Bad Ischl, Götzstraße, extension of the building built between 1965–66
• 1976–1979 single-family row houses at the Römerbad, Weißenburg in Bavaria
• 1977–1979 residential building with doctor's practice Riedler, Am Römerbad, Weißenburg in Bavaria
• 1977–1979 Attergauer Raiffeisenbank, St. Georgen im Attergau , new building and interior design
• 1977–1979 Raiffeisenbank in Vöcklabruck , renovation, expansion and interior design
• 1978–1979 Raiffeisenbank Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz, on the ground floor. of the Hotel Stern, renovation and interior design
• 1979–1981 Rudolf Rastl driving school and house, Bad Ischl, Gassnerweg, conversion, extension and interior design
• 1980–1982 Raiffeisenbank Bad Goisern, Hauptstrasse, new building and interior design
• 1981–1984 Bad Ischl kindergarten, district Rettenbach, new building and interior design
• 1981–1984 Raiffeisenbank in Schwanenstadt , main square, new building and interior design
• 1982 Sparkasse Bad Ischl, Bad Goisern branch, Hauptstrasse, (built 1971–71) floor structure and interior fittings
• 1983 – Project: Sparkasse Bad Ischl, new Pfandl branch,
• 1983–1985 Federal Institute for Adult Education St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut and Summer College of the University of Vienna , Strobl am Wolfgangsee, interior design of the Bürglhaus and the main lecture hall
• 1984–1986 Sparkasse Bad Ischl, branch in the Pfandl district, Bad Ischl, new building and interior design
• 1984–1986 Raiffeisenbank Vöcklamarkt, Upper Austria, new building and interior design
• 1984–1987 State Music School Bad Ischl, Kaiserpark, conversion of the former KuK Hofremisen building of the Kaiservilla into a music school including design and furnishing of the interior.
• 1985–1988 Federal Institute for Adult Education St. Wolfgang and Summer College of the University of Vienna, Strobl am Wolfgangsee, accommodation building Wiesenhaus, new building and interior design
• 1987–1988 Photo Hugo Hofer, business, studio and residential building II, Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz, new building and some interior furnishings
• 1987–1989 Raiffeisenbank Bad Ischl, Kreuzplatz, extension of the bank to the upper floors of the former Hotel Goldener Stern, including interior fittings, redesign of the facade.
• 1987–1989 Gut Schwarzenbach, Petrus v. Goerschen, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, extension of the elevator tower, construction of a carport, redesign of the entrance gate

Filmography

• Heinz Karbus - a life for architecture . a documentation by David Pasek with Friedrich Achleitner . 2007.

Web links

• "Heinz Karbus - a life for architecture" detailed conversation by Heinz Karbus and Friedrich Achleitner in the radio series A palaver freely available as a stream, May 7, 2007