Karl Hauschka
Karl Hauschka (born May 4, 1896 in Vienna ; † October 30, 1981 there ) was an Austrian architect .
education and profession
Karl Hauschka completed his apprenticeship between 1915 and 1916 at the state trade school, where he studied construction. Hauschka had to interrupt his training due to his being called up for military service or military service in the First World War between 1916 and 1918. After the end of the war, he completed his training at the Staatsgewerbeschule in 1919 with a supplementary course at the Staatsgewerbeschule and then attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna until 1922 , where he worked with Franz von Krauss and then Peter Behrens until 1921studied. In 1922 he completed his training with a diploma. Due to his talent, Hauschka received the Füger Medal in 1921 and a state study trip grant of 5000 crowns in 1922.
Nothing is known about his first years as an architect, but in the mid-1920s Hauschka worked together with his former academy colleague Viktor Mittag in social housing for the municipality of Vienna. As a result, the architectural duo designed three large residential complexes for the municipality of Vienna. You were also involved in the design of the Goethehof with other architects. The architect Hauschka and his partner took part in various competitions and designed the office building of the Geneva Association in Vienna. Hauschka, whose license as a civil architect was valid between 1931 and 1936, dissolved the partnership with Viktor Mittag in 1935 and went to Madrid . After another two-year stay abroad, he moved to Berlin in 1938, where he stayed until the end of World War II. He returned to Austria via Vienna in 1945 and settled in Groß-Siegharts, his father's hometown. In 1949 he finally returned to Vienna. In the post-war period, Hauschka worked again in the housing program of the municipality of Vienna. In 1954 he won first prize in the architecture competition for the architectural design of the entire system of the Danube power plant Ybbs-Persenbeug and was entrusted with the execution. Karl Hauschka was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery .
Hauschka was a member of the Central Association of Austrian Architects from 1924 and a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative from 1952. He was also a member of the Austrian Chamber of Engineers and Architects. The designs of the first residential complexes that he developed together with Viktor Mittag were mainly based on the buildings by Heinrich Schmid and Hermann Aichinger . Hauschka and Mittag used a wide variety of structural elements such as terraces, arcades, porticos, bay windows, loggias, cornices or gate grids, thereby giving their buildings a romanticizing, sometimes castle-like character. Later buildings such as the Wildganshof , on the other hand, have a more restrained design language. A special position in the work of Hauschka / Mittag is the planned office building extension of the Geneva Association, which was executed as a frame construction in reinforced concrete. After the Second World War, Hauschka gave its municipal buildings a sober, functional form with windows that were added. For the design of the Danube power plant, Hauschka relied on a factual and function-related design language and calm lines in the overall system. In addition to the power plant with the operating house, two power houses with the weir system and the locks , Hauschka was also entrusted with the planting, road and stream relocations and the blasting.
He was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery .
Private
Architect Karl Hauschka was the son of Karl Hauschka and was married to Karoline Hofmann (1902–1986).
Works
- Thury-Hof in Marktgasse 3 in Vienna- Alsergrund (1925–1926, with Viktor Mittag)
- Friedrich-Ebert-Hof in Hütteldorfer Strasse 16–22 in Vienna- Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (1925–1926, with Viktor Mittag)
- Office building of the Geneva Association in Grüngasse 1a in Vienna- Wieden (1928–1929, with Viktor Mittag)
- Goethehof in Schüttaustraße 1–39 in Vienna- Donaustadt (1929–1930, with Viktor Mittag, Hugo Mayer, Rudolf Fraß, Heinrich Schopper, Alfred Chalusch, Johann Rotmüller)
- Wildganshof in Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 177–187 in Wien- Landstrasse (1931–1933, with Viktor Mittag)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna at Schüttelstraße 19 in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (1950, with the architect Payer)
- Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna at Heiligenstädter Strasse 165 in Vienna- Döbling (1952, with the architect Schüssler)
- Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna at Ruckergasse 54–60 in Vienna- Meidling (1953–1954, with the architects Herbert Prehsler, Karl Molnar and Bruno Buzek )
- Danube power plants Ybbs-Persenbeug (1954–1959)
- Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna in Ruzickagasse in Vienna- Liesing (1958, with the architects Albrecht, Bossew, Brunner, Kastinger, Sorgo and Karl Molnar)
Web links
- Karl Hauschka. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Hauschka grave site , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, Group 20, No. 107.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauschka, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1981 |
| Place of death | Vienna |