Liane Zimbler

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Liane Zimbler (born May 31, 1892 in Přerov , Austria-Hungary as Juliana Fischer ; died November 11, 1987 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian-American architect and interior designer . After running a very successful company in Vienna , Zimbler emigrated to the United States in 1938 , where she specialized in interior design.

biography

Zimbler first studied photography , reproduction processes and graphics at the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna from 1909 to 1911 , then architecture at the Vienna Art School , where she attended architecture classes in addition to her arts and crafts studies. While still a student, she worked as an illustrator and designer for Emilie Flöge's salon .

In 1916 she married the lawyer Otto Zimbler, with whom she had a daughter, Eva, in 1922. In the same year she began to work for the Bamberger furniture factory in Vienna. Towards the end of the First World War , she joined the Vienna design studio Rosenberger as an architect. At the beginning of the 1920s she founded her own office, which specialized in conversion, renovation and interior decoration work as well as furniture design. Due to her flourishing business, Zimbler was able to open a second studio in Prague in 1928 , which was managed by her colleague Annie Herrnheiser. She also started giving lectures in Vienna while participating in various organizations that support working women.

It became known for its one-room apartments and studios, an expanding niche market for the middle class . Notable projects in Vienna included a villa on Silbergasse, the renovation of the Ephrussi Bank and several interior design projects . She was also the Chair of the Austrian Board of Directors of the International Housing Society and gave lectures on the sociological and artistic aspects of housing.

In February 1938 Liane Zimbler was one of the first women in Austria to take the civil architecture examination in Vienna and was granted the license to be an architect. Soon afterwards, thanks to Otto Zimbler's influential contacts, the family was able to leave for the Netherlands and London before the German annexation in March . They were able to emigrate to the United States in the fall of that year.

Thanks to the commitment of Ada Gomperz, the wife of the philosopher Heinrich Gomperz , Zimbler then settled in Los Angeles, where she worked on the interior design in Anita Toors' office. After her husband and Anita Toor died in an accident, Zimbler took over the company around 1941 and concentrated again on renovation and decoration projects. She also designed a number of new buildings and regularly participated in exhibitions. In 1943 she received US citizenship. Zimbler frequently lectured and wrote articles on interior design for architecture and design magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times . Her daughter Eva, who came to her as an apprentice in 1958, became her assistant. Zimbler, who suffered a stroke at the age of 86 , continued to work until she was 90. She died in Los Angeles in November 1987 at the age of 95.

Zimbler was a member of the American Institute of Interior Designers and the Association of Women in Architecture. Her estate is in the International Archives of Women in Architecture, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg / Virginia.

Projects

First phase Vienna

  • 1918 first own architecture commission: residential house in Bad Aussee
  • 1924 Wetzler House
  • 1922 Bankhaus Ephrussi, Vienna: renovations and additions
  • 1934–1938, Gnadenwald house
  • 1931 Remodeling of apartment D., Vienna
  • 1934 combined room of a music teacher, Vienna
  • 1935 Gebhard & Füssel flower shop, Vienna
  • 1936 Conversion of the Sabel apartment, Vienna (formerly Goldmann, furnished by Adolf Loos in 1911)
  • 1938 House Gnadenwald, Tyrol

Second phase Los Angeles

  • 1941 resides in Toch, Santa Monica
  • 1942 Panzer Residence, Beverly Hills
  • 1944 resides in Boswell, Los Angeles
  • 1945 resides in Dahlberg, Beverly Hills
  • 1950 Foster Bedroom & Bath, Beverly Hills
  • 1951 Barba's residence, Beverly Hills
  • 1952 residence of Dr. J. Brody, Beverly Hills
  • 1955 Residence Moore, Los Angeles
  • 1955 Residence Stewart, Beverly Hills
  • 1956 Feldman Kitchen, Los Angeles
  • 1956–1957 residence in Schwartz, Camarillo
  • 1959–1960 residence Huebscher, Los Angeles
  • 1960 Reception room for the Elliot Evans Company, Los Angeles
  • 1961 Candianides residence, venture
  • 1962 Silverberg apartment, Los Angeles
  • 1960–1965, 1975 residence in Barasch, Los Angeles
  • 1965 Engelman Residence, Los Angeles
  • 1965 Residence of Levy, Los Angeles
  • 1968 Wasserman Residence (Foyer), Los Angeles
  • 1974 Recycled House, Beverly Hills

reception

Juliane Zimbler was one of the first women to work as architects in Austria. Like many of her male colleagues, due to a lack of construction contracts in the inter-war period, she was forced to focus largely on interior design and furniture design, because as a woman in this field she was most likely to have the chance to succeed. As a Jew, she was forced to flee into American exile in 1938. There she had to restart her career and grapple with the requirements of a country that was previously foreign to her. She is one of the many exiles whose fate was forgotten after the Second World War.

literature

  • Zacek, Patricia: Women in Technology from 1900 to 2000 , Vienna, ARGE architects and engineering consultants, 1999.
  • Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: "Loos remodeled" - for the renovation of the Leopold Goldman apartment by the architect Liane Zimbler in 1936 . In: Elana Shapira (Ed.): Design Dialog: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism. Böhlau, Vienna 2018, pp. 263–280

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birgit Ben-Eli: Austria: Jewish Women Artists - Jewish Women's Archive. In: jwa.org. July 28, 1942, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d nextroom - architecture on the net: Architekturzentrum Wien. In: architektenlexikon.at. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Ilse Erika Korotin: BiographiA: Lexicon of Austrian women . Böhlau, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 3638 f .
  4. ↑ a b c A Guide to the Liane Zimbler Architectural Collection, 1912-1982, 1993-1994: # Ms1988-005. In: ead.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Liane Zimbler - Vienna History Wiki. In: geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ IAWA Biographical Database. In: iawadb.lib.vt.edu. November 11, 1987, accessed February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zimbler, Liana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Juliane Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American architect and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Přerov
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1987
Place of death los Angeles