Martin Knoll (architect)

Martin Knoll (born August 4, 1888 in Morzg ; † July 14, 1937 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian architect .

education

From 1900 to 1904 he attended the kk Staatsrealschule Salzburg and from 1904 to 1908 the higher trade school in Vienna . In the winter semester 1913/14 he was a listener a. a. with Theodor Fischer at the Royal Bavarian Technical University in Munich . In 1914 he passed the master builder qualification test. Between 1914 and 1918 he served in the war in South Tyrol (front section of the Sexten Dolomites ). In 1918 he was given leave from the front to continue his university studies. He attended the special school for architecture with Leopold Bauer and the kk Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1925 he received the civil architect license.

Works

At an early age he designed plans for buildings in Morzg in his father's construction office (Morzger Strasse 84 and 84a). After his military service, he worked as a freelance architect in Salzburg after 1918 and planned villas and small houses in the Salzburg suburbs. The result was collaboration and friendship with the Salzburg architect Paul Geppert the Elder (1912-1922), Wunibald Deininger (1922-1932) and Gustav Flesch-Brunningen . His early work was determined by the Heimatstil , enriched with elements of Art Nouveau . Examples were the mortar farm (1909) and the Knoll house in Morzg (1909 to 1911). In 1922, together with Deininger and Flesch-Brunningen, he designed a festival hall project for the park in Hellbrunn with a large and a small festival hall for an architectural competition . Other unrealized projects include a Mozart Festival Hall on the Bürgelstein , for which he received the Gundel Prize .

He was also known as a draftsman and so he took part in the 1919 exhibition The Aquarius with a brown and pastel chalk drawing of a country house near Hellbrunn.

Vicarage Morzg

Wing extension at the Lasserhof

Buildings

• Pfarrhof Morzg , Gneiser Straße 62, new building 1911
• Gym Morzg in Expressionism style , 1923
• House for Eduard Stockhammer, Brunnhausgasse, 1926
• Posthof , Kaigasse 41, new building from 1930 to 1932
• Berchtesgadener Hof , Kaigasse 37, conversion and new building from 1930 to 1931
• Lasserhof , extension, Morzger Strasse 31, 1931
• House Walderdorff am Gaisberg , 1933 - 1934
• Woodward House in St. Jakob am Thurn , 1934 - 1935
• Expansion of the then Maria-Theresien-Schlössl diet pension

literature

• Jana Breuste; Birgit Silberbauer: "The art-loving architect Martin Knoll". Salzburg Museum, The work of art of the month , March 2019, volume 32, sheet 371.
• Monika Oberhammer: Knoll, Martin. In Adolf Haslinger & Peter Mittermayer (eds.), Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2001, p. 248. ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 .
• Otto Kunze: Projected unexecuted monumental buildings in Salzburg over the past sixty years. Salzburger Volksblatt, anniversary edition 1930 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Knoll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Martin Knoll Architect". In: Architects' information network. Retrieved April 6, 2019 . 
• Museum der Moderne: "Wunibald Deininger / Martin Knoll, Project for a Mirabellplatz Verbauung, 1932". In: wordpress.com. May 11, 2015, accessed March 6, 2019 . 
• Salzburg Museum: "Architecture Documentation". In: Salzburg Museum. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .