Marcel Kammerer

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Marcel Kammerer (born November 4, 1878 in Vienna , † December 25, 1959 in Montreal ) was an Austrian architect and painter.

Marcel Kammerer passed the final examination at the Staatsgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1897 , attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1898–1902 and undertook a study trip to Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, England and Holland in 1901 on the basis of a scholarship. The Wagner student worked for several years as chief draftsman in Otto Wagner's office and worked on important buildings, such as the church at Steinhof . Kammerer designed a large part of the furniture for Wagner's postal savings bank building. In addition, he also ran independent projects.

Grand Hotel Wiesler (1909)

From 1911 to 1918, Kammerer entered into a working group with the architects Otto Schönthal and Emil Hoppe , who were also from Otto Wagner's school . As a painter, he was trained by Franz Rumpler before 1914 (private student). The Krieau trotting track (1914) is one of Kammerer's best-known projects , and his main work is the reconstruction of the Grand Hotel Wiesler in Graz in secessionist style. Kammerer worked primarily as a painter in the interwar period. As such, it was particularly appreciated and exhibited during the Nazi era. After the “Anschluss” , he was the head of the visual arts in the district of Vienna and thus became a powerful official. After 1945 he emigrated to Canada.

Kammerer received the Medal of Honor at the International Exhibition in Rome in 1911, the Hansen Prize in 1899, the Prize of the City of Vienna for an outstanding building in 1915 (residential building, Vienna 1, Dorotheergasse 5-7), and in 1932 the Medal of Honor from the Central Association of Austrian Visual Artists Silver, 1913 the honorary award of the Leipzig Building Exhibition in silver. He was appointed building councilor hc .

His urn is in the Weidlinger Friedhof near Vienna.

literature

  • Andreas Lehne : Art Nouveau in Vienna. An architecture guide. J & V, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85058-026-1 .
  • Marco Pozzetto: The Otto Wagner School. 1894-1912. Schroll, Vienna et al. 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0524-0 .
  • Iain Boyd Whyte: Emil Hoppe, Marcel Kammerer, Otto Schönthal. Three architects from Otto Wagner's master school. Ernst, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-433-02042-6 .

Web links

Commons : Marcel Kammerer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kammerer, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1959
Place of death Montreal