Karl Ernstberger

Karl Ernstberger (born September 25, 1887 in Mallowitz , West Bohemia , † November 22, 1972 in Nuremberg ) was a German-Austrian architect .

Life

As a graduate of the State Trade School in Pilsen , he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class for architecture. There he was a student of Otto Wagner . He became a qualified engineer and was recognized as a freelance architect in 1913. He carried out several projects in Vienna in collaboration with the City of Vienna's senior building officer Engelbert Mang (1883–1955).

Ernst Berger participants was the First World War in the imperial army of Austria-Hungary in the use of Kaiserjäger , the later mountain company no. 30 , at the front in Galicia until 1918. Crown Land (UK) that Monarchy. He then worked as an architect in Vienna and Karlsbad in western Bohemia with notable art-historical commissions. After the end of the Second World War , as a Sudeten German from Karlsbad, he was expropriated and expelled by the Czech authorities on the basis of the Benesch decrees in 1946 . He eventually became an architect in Nuremberg to live near his brother Anton Ernstberger , who taught as a professor at the University of Erlangen .

In 1909 Ernstberger received the Rome Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for his achievements .

Design for the Bozen Kaiserjäger Monument, 1916

1917–1918: Kaiserjäger monument in Bozen (unfinished; demolished in 1926/27)
1920–1930: “Morava” rest home / sanatorium in Tatralomnitz
Building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Opava
Hotels, villas, spa houses and housing developments in and around Karlovy Vary
Hospitals and schools in Abertham and Theusing in West Bohemia, Hohenfurth and Moldautein in South Bohemia
Planning for the national library and the museum in Sofia , the state parliament building in Chernivtsi in Bukovina and the building for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Linz

Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century . Volume 2. 1954.
Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich by Heribert Sturm , Volume 1 (A – H). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 318.
Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon , Volume 1 (A – M). Männedorf 1985. ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 130.
The Egerländer 9. 1967.
Volksbote 11 of November 1967, 6 December 1969, 8 December 1972.
Heimatbrief for the District Plan (Plana) at Marienbad ( Marianske Lazne ), Weseritz ( Bezdruzice ) Tepl (Tepla) and Bečov ( Bečov nad Teplou ) February 1968th
Sudetendeutsche Zeitung , newspaper of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft from October 24, 1969.

↑ Engelbert Mang. in: Architects Lexicon.
↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 80-83 .