Leo Kammel

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Leo Kammel (born March 15, 1885 in Steinschönau , Bohemia , † July 25, 1948 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Leo Kammel was the son of a glass manufacturer in Northern Bohemia. Kammel graduated from the Prague School of Applied Arts in 1905 and then attended the Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Kotěra , one of Otto Wagner's most important students . After completing his training, Kammel settled in Vienna as a freelance architect around 1913. In the interwar period he was mainly active in Austria (including for the municipality of Vienna) and in Czechoslovakia (cinemas), although his extensive work has not yet been fully documented. In 1929 he also gave lectures at the Vienna University of Technology . Kammel worked under changing political conditions, for example during the corporate state in Austria and also during the National Socialist period, as then afterwards in the Second Republic .

The son of the same name, Leo Kammel junior, was also an architect.

meaning

Kammel's buildings before the First World War are classically designed and flat and are thus under the influence of Otto Wagner. In the interwar period, however, his teacher Jan Kotěra and the Cubist Czech architecture became decisive for him. Expressionist design elements such as acute-angled cornices and bay windows characterize his community buildings . From the 1930s onwards, he finally followed contemporary functionalism .

Works

Town hall of Neunkirchen
(1948–1950)
Residential complex at Bernardgasse 38 (1925)
  • Rental houses , Vienna 17, Rosensteingasse 84–86 (1914)
  • Rental house , Vienna 6, Haydngasse 14 (1914)
  • Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Vienna 7, Bernardgasse 38 (1925)
  • Residential building with function rooms of the Christian book house , Vienna 8, Blindengasse 65 (1926–1930)
  • Methodist Church Vienna 8, Bennogasse 11 (1926–1927)
  • Cinema in Steinschönau , Czechoslovakia (1926)
  • Landhaus , Baden , Lower Austria, Valeriestraße 5 (1927)
  • Cinema in Jägerndorf , Czechoslovakia (1927)
  • Cinema , Baden , Beethovengasse 2a, Lower Austria (1927)
  • Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Vienna 9, D'Orsaygasse 3–5 (1927–1928)
  • Alpine Montan residential complex , Leoben , Styria, Im Tal 147 (1927–1928)
  • Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Vienna 19, Döblinger Gürtel 10 (1927–1928)
  • Rental house , Vienna 19, Döblinger Hauptstrasse 52 (1930)
  • Cinema in Neutitschein , Czechoslovakia (1930)
  • Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna "Skarethof ", Vienna 15, Diefenbachgasse 49-51 (1930–1931)
  • Housing complex for public employees "Austria ", Vienna 3, Salesianergasse 1b / Grimmelshausengasse 6–8 (1930–1931)
  • Skyscraper , Vienna 1, Laurenzerberg 3 (1933); together with Felix Angelo Pollak
  • Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Vienna 15, Gablenzgasse 35–37 (1931–1932); together with the sculptor Florian Josephu-Drouot
  • Branch of Wiener Städtische Versicherung , Vienna 1, Stephansplatz / Rotenturmstrasse (1935), not preserved
  • Deutsches Volkstheater Wien , Führerzimmer , Vienna 7, Museumsstrasse 2a (1938)
  • Führerloge of the Raimundtheater , Vienna (1939); together with Fritz Zeymer
  • Restoration of the Vienna Volkstheater , Vienna 7, Museumsstrasse 2a (1947)
  • Restoration of the tenement house Vienna 13, Wattmanngasse 5 (1947–1948)
  • Neunkirchen town hall in Neunkirchen in Lower Austria (1948–1950)
  • Housing complex , Vienna 5, Siebenbrunnengasse 36 (1948–1950); possibly von Kammel junior together with Otto Schönthal

literature

  • Arbeiter Zeitung July 31, 1948 (obituary)
  • H. and R. Hautmann: The municipal housing of the Red Vienna 1919-1934 . Vienna 1980
  • J. Vybiral / P. Zatloukal: Architektura let 1850-1950 v Krnove . In: Umeni 38.1990, p. 521ff
  • H. Weihsmann: Building under the swastika . Vienna 1998
  • H. Weihsmann: The Red Vienna . Vienna 2002
  • The residential buildings of the municipality of Vienna 1920-1933 (not published). Vienna 1933

Web links

Commons : Leo Kammel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaroslav Zeman: Mezi tradicí a modernitou: město v průmyslovém věku. Severočeská architektura v první polovině 20. století (Between tradition and modernity - city in the industrial age. North Bohemian architecture in the first half of the 20th century), (Czech.), Dissertation, Charles University Prague, 2017, 365 p. ( Online as PDF; accessed June 30, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Kammel, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinschönau
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1948
Place of death Vienna