Hubert Petschnigg
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Hubert Petschnigg (born October 31, 1913 in Klagenfurt ; † September 15, 1997 at Pyrmont Castle ) was an Austrian architect who lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 1948 .
Life
After graduating from high school in Villach, Petschnigg began studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology in 1934 , where he joined the Corps Hansea Vienna in 1935. However, he was called up for military service before graduating. After the end of the Second World War, he continued his studies at the Technical University of Graz with Karl Raimund Lorenz and Friedrich Zotter in 1946 , which he graduated in 1947 with a degree in engineering .
In 1948 he worked for Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser's architectural office in Düsseldorf . After the death of Hans Heuser in 1953, Petschnigg took his place and formed the Hentrich-Petschnigg (HP) architectural office with Hentrich . In 1959 the office was expanded by six partners and then called itself HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner. In 1962, Petschnigg was awarded the Corps Marchia Brno ribbon . In 1977 he was made an honorary senator by the Graz University of Technology . In 1982 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, which particularly honored him as an Austrian. In 1988 he became an honorary member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Association of Engineers and Architects.
Petschnigg was particularly interested in the preservation of monuments . He renovated old buildings, including his own Pyrmont Castle in the Eifel , where he and his wife spent the end of his life as lord of the castle.
Works
The largest works by Petschnigg were created as part of his activities at HPP, so that the following list is also a selection of projects by the architectural office.
- Bayer high-rise in Leverkusen (completed in 1963, demolished in 2012/13)
- BASF high-rise in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (completed in 1957, demolished in 2013/14)
- Carsch house in Düsseldorf
- Finland House in Hamburg (completed in 1966)
- IBM branch in Düsseldorf (completed 1978)
- Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf (completed in 1980)
- Former casino R 55 (factory canteen) of the Bayer factory in Krefeld - Uerdingen (1960–1961, listed)
- RWI house in Düsseldorf (completed 1973)
- Ruhr University Bochum (completed in 1974)
- Silberpalais in Duisburg (completed 1978)
- Standard Bank Center in Johannesburg (completed in 1970)
- Sternhaus in Düsseldorf (completed in 1972)
- Thyssen House in Düsseldorf (completed in 1960)
- Trinkaus-Center in Düsseldorf (completed in 1975)
- TÜV Rheinland building in Cologne (completed in 1974)
- VEBA headquarters in Düsseldorf (handed over on December 11, 1974)
- Four wheel house of the WDR (completed 1970) in Cologne
literature
- Joachim Lübcke: In memoriam Hubert Petschnigg. In: Märkerbrief , No. 83 (1998).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 65 , 91
- ↑ HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 94 , 228
- ↑ Entry on Hubert Petschnigg in the ifa artist database ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hubert Petschnigg. In: Structurae
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petschnigg, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1997 |
| Place of death | Pyrmont Castle |