Hubert Matuschek

Franz Hubert Matuschek (born November 3, 1902 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † July 10, 1968 in Gmunden ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Hubert Matuschek was the son of the architect Franz Matuschek (1874–1935), who worked in Budapest. Since there was no possibility for the son to attend a German-speaking school there, the family moved to Vienna , where Matuschek grew up. Here he graduated from the state trade school in 1922 . This was followed by a year of practical experience with his father and with other architects before he studied with Peter Behrens at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1923 to 1926 . He graduated with a diploma.

In the following years Matuschek worked in his father's office. Apart from a few minor jobs, this period was not economically successful. He was only able to distinguish himself by participating in competitions, which were not followed by any orders. In 1935 he joined the Künstlerhaus Wien .

After his father's death, he achieved his first success with the redesign of the Am Gestade staircase in Vienna. In 1938 Matuschek joined the NSDAP and was accepted into the Reich Chamber of Culture , whereupon he was able to realize several residential and industrial buildings before he was drafted into military service. In 1945 imprisonment and a brief denazification process followed . His party membership led to a falling out with his former fellow student Ernst Plischke .

Matuschek moved to Gmunden, where after some time he was again approved as a civil architect. Together with his former student colleague Anton Ubl, he realized numerous public and private buildings in the post-war years, especially in Upper Austria. But there were also some community buildings in Vienna . Participation in competitions for the construction of the Imperial Palace and the City Hall in Addis Ababa was successful , in which the duo won 3rd prize each. However, the drafts were not implemented.

Hubert Matuschek died in Gmunden, but was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Vienna.

meaning

In the first few years Matuschek's activity was overshadowed by his father. He was only able to draw attention to himself by participating in competitions. Above all, his design for the so-called Novadom small house impressed with its functionalist and clear design language, following the construction of the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung . In his buildings from the war and post-war years, Matuschek increasingly adopted traditional form elements and materials that came from rural areas and were integrated into their surroundings.

The range of buildings erected by Matuschek is wide. He created large municipal residential buildings as well as single-family houses, churches, schools and industrial buildings.

Works

On the shore

Wienerfeld settlement (1953–1956)

• Design of the square and staircase Am Gestade , Vienna 1 (1937)
• Hannakenbrunnen , Vienna 1 (together with Rudolf Schmidt ) (1937)
• Iron foundry of the Meller company , Vienna-Liesing (1937)
• People's settlement , Vöcklabruck (1938–1941)
• Expansion and renovation of the sack and jute factory in Flatz , Vienna 2 (1939)
• Kindergarten , Maria Enzersdorf (1939)
• Military and industrial buildings in Laa an der Thaya , Heidenreichstein and Gänserndorf (1941)
• Single-family house , Schlagenstraße 12, Gmunden (1949)
• Reconstruction of the city theater in Gmunden (together with Anton Ubl) (1949)
• Elementary school , Pinsdorf (together with Anton Ubl) (around 1950)
• Wienerfeld settlement , Laxenburger Straße 140–142 and 203–207, Vienna 10 (together with Anton Ubl) (1953–1956)
• Conversion of gliding school , Zell am See (together with Anton Ubl) (1958)
• Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna Johann-Kaps-Hof , Jägerstrasse / Stromstrasse, Vienna 20 (together with Anton Ubl) (around 1958)
• Girls' secondary school , Ebensee
• Evangelical Church , Ebensee
• Mortuary , Ebensee (together with Anton Ubl)
• Youth hostel , at the Bundesportschule Obertraun (together with Anton Ubl)
• High Mountain School Gjaid-Oberfeld , Obertraun (together with Anton Ubl)
• Cable car station Krippenbrunn , Obertraun (together with Anton Ubl)
• Control tower , Linz-Hörsching (together with Anton Ubl)
• Army buildings , Wels (together with Anton Ubl)
• Grünberg-Restaurant , Gmunden (together with Anton Ubl)
• Residential buildings , Lederergasse , Linz (together with Anton Ubl)

literature

• Helmut Weihsmann: Built in Vienna . Lexicon of 20th Century Viennese Architects. Promedia, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85371-234-7

Web links

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