Karl Pirich

Karl Pirich (born April 27, 1875 in Salzburg ; † June 22, 1956 there ) was an Austrian architect .

biography

Karl Pirich attended the kk Staatsgewerbeschule in Salzburg from 1889 to 1893 and in his senior year found a job with Jakob Ceconi , who at the time was the head of the most important construction company in the province of Salzburg. After five years at the Ceconi company , he began his studies with Otto Wagner at the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1898 and was awarded the title of "Academic Architect" on July 24, 1901.

During his studies he designed the two villas “Rudolfskai 52” (1899) and “Rudolfskai 50” (1900) for Ceconi. He then worked for the Angelo Cominis construction office in Bad Gastein and for another six years as a leading architect for Jakob Ceconi. During this time he became known for the construction of the St. Antonius Church in Itzling (1903). In 1907 he built the Böcksteinerhof in Bad Gastein, again with Comini .

From 1907 he worked as a freelance architect and now pushed his own personal style, which was expressed in a synthesis of local building with Art Nouveau . Before 1910, the economic facilities of the Nonnberg monastery (Nonnbergerhof) and manors of the Stiegl brewery in Maxglan were built according to his plans . Among other things, he designed numerous interiors , e.g. B. for the Borromeo Church in Salzburg (1912), as well as altars, organ prospectuses , church furnishings and equipment. The most famous secular buildings in Pirich include the hall of the Morzgerhof (1913) and the Augustiner-Bräustübl, the Obertrum Braugasthof, the Salzburger Platzlkeller as well as villas and country houses (e.g. the "Kapsreiter" house in Schärding and the "Angermaier" house in Salzburg)

In 1913 he became a diocesan architect and was responsible for all building work for the church administration in the Archdiocese of Salzburg . After the local fires in Obertrum (1917) and Wagrain (1927), he was significantly involved in the reconstruction of both localities. In 1923 Karl Pirich was awarded the title of senior building officer . In 1940 he was employed as an architect in the Salzburg Settlement Office. After the Second World War , he volunteered as a building consultant for the city of Salzburg. Only at the age of 78 did he retire as a diocesan architect in 1953. After his death he was buried at the Salzburg municipal cemetery.

From 1914 Karl Pirich was a member of the prince-archbishop's diocesan monument council and from 1918 the advisory center for war memorials in the Duchy of Salzburg . From 1915 he was a committee member of the Association for Homeland Security, founded in 1911.

family

Pirich was the son of the police officer Wilhelm Pirich and his wife Leontine. In September 1901 he married Maria Winkler and became the father of their daughter Margarethe (* 1908).

literature

• Nekrolog in Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde Volume 97, 1957, p.
• Ilse Maltzan: Studies on the work of the Salzburg architect Karl Pirich (1875–1956). In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde Volume 132, 1992, pp. 335–424.
• Ilse Maltzan: Addendum to the studies on the work of the Salzburg architect Karl Pirich (1875–1976) . In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde Volume 136, 1996, pp. 311–322.
• Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr (ed.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg-Vienna-Frankfurt / Main 2001. ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 , p.
• Friederike Zaisberger , Reinhard R. Heinisch (eds.): Life beyond death ... Celebrities in the Salzburg municipal cemetery. Announcements from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. 23. Supplementary volume. Self-published by the company. Salzburg 2006, p.?.