Karl Dirnhuber

Karl Dirnhuber (born October 7, 1889 in Vienna , † November 11, 1953 in Birmingham ) was an Austrian architect and craftsman.

Life

Karl Dirnhuber was the son of the company owner Ernst Anton Dirnhuber and his wife Therese Sasse. Karl first attended secondary school and then the higher trade school at the State Trade School in Vienna, where he graduated in 1908. After completing his military service, Dirnhuber studied at the Technical University from 1910 to 1915 and did practical years in the Theiss & Jaksch atelier. From 1919 he worked as a freelance architect. He took part in numerous competitions, but emerged in the 1920s, especially in Red Vienna, with social housing for the municipality of Vienna. In addition, his biggest project at that time was the transformation of the former Währing cemetery into a park. In 1931 he obtained his doctorate. techn. After the change of political power in Austria, the time of the 1930s was difficult for Dirnhuber, he received no more orders.

Karl Dirnhuber had been married to Annie Stern since 1919, with whom he had two children. Since his wife was of Jewish descent, Dirnhuber left Vienna with her for London after the National Socialist seizure of power in Austria in 1939 .

power

Dirnhuber was interested in many things, based on his plans and drafts, but could only actually build residential buildings. At the beginning it was stylistically more traditionally adapted and borrowed from local, down-to-earth styles. Later, however, he was one of the more progressive architects who left expressionist forms behind and preferred a matter-of-fact, functional building method, perhaps following Adolf Loos . He was also one of the progressives when it came to the choice of building materials. However, Dirnhuber received most of the recognition for his park project.

Dirnhuber also created home furnishings and handicrafts.

Works

“Theerhof” (part of the so-called Indianerhof), Vienna 12

• Construction of the Währinger Schubertpark , Vienna 18 (1924-25)
• Housing complex Weimarer Strasse 1, Vienna 18 (1924-25)
• Housing complex Otto-Haas-Hof, Vienna 20 (1924–25)
• Housing complex Hütteldorfer Straße 3–5, Vienna 15 (1925)
• "Glückauf" youth home, Leoben (1926)
• Residential complex Hagenmüllergasse 21–23, Vienna 3 (1926–28)
• Conversion of the Dr. Malburg, Smiric nad Labem, CSR (1927)
• Conversion of the mansion in Stanz im Mürz Valley, Styria (1928)
• Indianerhof residential complex , Vienna 12 (1927–30) together with Camillo Fritz Discher
• Villa Konrad-Duden-Gasse 71, Vienna 13 (1928)
• Conversion of the Photohaus Benedikt shop, Rotenturmstraße , Vienna 1 (1931)
• Villa Alois-Dachs-Gasse 3, Vienna 23 (1933), a wooden house

Fonts

• Urban planning and floor plan study of the government building in Eisenstadt. Dissertation 1931

literature

• Civil architect Dr. Ing.Karl Dirnhuber, ten years freelance architect 1921-1931. Elbemühhl, Vienna 1932.
• Hans and Rudolf Hautmann: The municipal housing of Red Vienna 1919–1934. Schönbrunn, Vienna 1980

Web links

Commons : Karl Dirnhuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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