Laurids Ortner

The Mumok in the Museum Quarter designed by Ortner & Ortner (photo 2008)

Laurids Ortner (born May 26, 1941 in Linz ) is an Austrian architect and university professor .

Live and act

Ortner works in Berlin and Vienna . From 1959 to 1965 he studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology .

In 1967, together with Günter Zamp Kelp and the painter Klaus Pinter , he was a founding member of the "Architects-Artist Association" Haus-Rucker-Co , which took part in several documenta exhibitions until it was dissolved in 1992 . In the mid-1980s, interest increasingly turned to specific construction projects. Detached from Haus-Rucker-Co, he and his brother Manfred Ortner ran an architecture office under the name Ortner & Ortner Baukunst , now O&O Baukunst .

From 1976 to 1987 Ortner worked as a professor at the art college in Linz . From 1987 to 2009 he was professor of architecture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . With his brother Manfred Ortner, he designed the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, which opened in 2001 , one of the largest cultural centers in Europe. Ortner & Ortner also designed the building of the Saxon State Library in Dresden , which was completed in 2003 . In 2014 Laurids Ortner designed a roof structure called the MQ-Libelle for the Leopold Museum in Vienna's Museumsquartier.

Ortner is a member of the MAERZ artists' association .

Awards

1986: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for Architecture

1988 with Hausrucker & Co, Bene Büromöbel KG: State Design Award for the C5 office furniture program
2014: Great Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (Mauriz Balzarek Prize)
2020: Grand Austrian State Prize

Web links

Literature by and about Laurids Ortner in the catalog of the German National Library
Materials by and about Laurids Ortner in the documenta archive
Laurids Ortner. In: arch INFORM .
Ortner & Ortner Baukunst Internet presence of the architecture office
Archive recordings with and about Laurids Orthner in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

↑ Tony Cragg : Speech for the academic celebration on November 2, 2009 in the auditorium of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de , accessed on February 26, 2013. @1@ 2

↑ Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer: The architects Prof. DI Laurids Ortner and Prof. Mag. Manfred Ortner receive the Grand Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria . State correspondence No. 152 of August 13, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2015.

^ Grand State Prize to Laurids and Manfred Ortner. In: ORF.at . April 3, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ortner, Laurids
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz

[1] Tony Cragg : Speech for the academic celebration on November 2, 2009 in the auditorium of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de , accessed on February 26, 2013. @1@ 2

[kulturpreis2014-2] Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer: The architects Prof. DI Laurids Ortner and Prof. Mag. Manfred Ortner receive the Grand Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria . State correspondence No. 152 of August 13, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2015.

[orf3160504-3] Grand State Prize to Laurids and Manfred Ortner. In: ORF.at . April 3, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 .