Max Fellerer

Max Fellerer (born October 15, 1889 in Linz , † March 27, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect.

Life

Housing complex on Geyschlägergasse in Vienna, designed by Max Fellerer, built 1928–1929.

Fellerer graduated from the Realschule in Linz and studied at the Technical University of Vienna with Karl König and then at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Otto Wagner .

In 1913 Fellerer worked in the studio of the architect Josef Hoffmann and in the Wiener Werkstätte , which came to an end with his military service in the First World War . From 1919 to 1926 he was chief architect at Josef Hoffmann. From 1926 worked for the architect Clemens Holzmeister and there from 1928 to 1934 chief architect in his studio. From 1934 to 1954 he shared a studio with the architect Eugen Wörle .

From 1932 Fellerer was associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was director of the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1934 to 1938 , and was deposed as director when Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany.

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Works

with Eugen Wörle:

• Housing complex in the Per Albin Hansson housing estate
• Lido Gänsehäufel
• Parkhotel Mirabell
• Congress hall in Salzburg
• New building for the Ministry of Finance and the Academy for Applied Arts
• Reconstruction of Parliament
• Haas-Haus on Stephansplatz

Awards

• 1950: Prize of the City of Vienna for Architecture
• 1954: Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture
• 1954: Great decoration of honor for services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Max Fellerer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Max Fellerer. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grave site Maximilian Fellerer , Vienna, Wiener Zentralfriedhof, group 30, extension group C, row 8, no.11.
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)