Klaus Ströbele

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Klaus Ströbele (* 1903 in maximum , † 1988 ) was an Austrian architect of Modernism .

Life

Klaus (Nikolaus or Claus) Ströbele graduated from the building school at the Federal Trade School in Salzburg from 1921 to 1926 . It was there that he was shaped by the Otto Wagner student Wunibald Deininger . After completing his studies, Ströbele worked for various construction companies before opening his own “modern design office” as a freelance architect in October 1927.

Ströbele attracted attention as early as the mid-1930s with single-family houses in Bregenz , Schwarzach , Dornbirn , Feldkirch , but also in London . His office building Holzner (1935–1936) still dominates Kaiserstraße in Bregenz: While the Vorarlberg clients still preferred allusions to down-to-earth architecture in the 1930s, here the client gave his architect the opportunity for a decidedly international architecture.

Moving away from the locally traditional, partly regionally romantic style of construction of his early phase, in the 1930s he increasingly turned to the ideas of "New Building". In 1933 he planned the single-family house Höller in Bregenz, which was one of the first residential houses with a flat roof construction in Vorarlberg.

The activity was restricted during the Second World War . The objects created in the inter-war and post-war period tie in with Ströbele's first modern creative period, but they are clearly adapted to the local building tradition. The flat roof solutions are again by conventional in this phase hipped and tent constructions replaced.

Awards

In 1984 he received the honorary gift for art and science from the state of Vorarlberg for his extraordinary achievements.

In 2005 an exhibition on Ströbele's life's work took place in the Vorarlberg State Museum .

Works (selection)

Villa Metzler
  • Single-family house Höller in Bregenz (1933)
  • Single-family house Zimmermann (1934) in Bregenz
  • Koenig House in London / Maidenhead
  • Metzler House in Feldkirch (1935)
  • Textilhaus Holzner (1935 to 1936) in Bregenz
  • Music pavilion in the lake facilities in Bregenz (1947)
  • Scheidle office building (1950) in Bregenz (corner building Kaiserstraße - Bahnhofstraße)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Musikpavillon, Bregenz ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ströbele, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Maximum
DATE OF DEATH 1988