Karl Noble

Karl Vornehm (born May 16, 1893 in Linz , † May 17, 1982 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian architect and master stonemason .

Live and act

Noble was Otto Wagner's student from 1912 to 1914 . He attended art school of Matthias May , was from the 1920s, a member of the Artists' Association MARCH and from 1954 its president. His membership in the Upper Austrian Museum Association, Society for Regional Studies, began in 1919. He practiced his profession as an architect essentially only when building his own house, since he had to succeed his father in the management of the family's own quarry.

Works

Detail of the Ludwig Hatschek memorial niche in Linz (signature of Karl Vornehm)

In 1926 he was busy redesigning the residential and commercial building in Linz, Landstrasse 58, which is now a listed building, although the modifications are no longer preserved in their former form.

He created a series of memorials and plaques for Edward Samhaber (1927), for Ludwig Hatschek (1928) and for the victims of the Second World War at the St. Martin / Traun city cemetery (1948). 1947 designed a simple altar bar in Linz's Martinskirche .

In 1955, Vornehm showed the results of his own research in the large exhibition hall of the Schlossmuseum Linz under the title Proportion Studies on Buildings and Pictures from Antiquity to the Present .

literature

Marco Pozzetto (Ed.): The School of Otto Wagner, 1894 to 1912. Vienna 1980.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Noble. In: Web presence of the city of Linz queried on December 5, 2015.
^ Gerhard Winkler: Upper Austrian Museum Association. Association report for 1979. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. II. Reports, Volume 125b, Linz 1980, p. 16 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; see “Long-term memberships”).
^ Austrian art topography, volume L, The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz, Part II: The Landstrasse - Upper and Lower Suburbs. Austrian Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research (publisher), Vienna 1986.

personal data
SURNAME	Elegant, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1982
Place of death	Bad Ischl

[1] Karl Noble. In: Web presence of the city of Linz queried on December 5, 2015.

[2] Gerhard Winkler: Upper Austrian Museum Association. Association report for 1979. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. II. Reports, Volume 125b, Linz 1980, p. 16 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; see “Long-term memberships”).

[3] Austrian art topography, volume L, The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz, Part II: The Landstrasse - Upper and Lower Suburbs. Austrian Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research (publisher), Vienna 1986.