Oskar Wlach
Oskar Wlach (born April 18, 1881 in Vienna , † August 16, 1963 in New York City ) was an Austrian architect , interior designer and furniture designer.
Life
Oskar Wlach came from a middle-class Jewish family that came from Moravia. After graduating from high school in 1898, he studied with Karl König at the Technical University in Vienna until 1903 . In 1906 he received his doctorate as Dr. techn. and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master school with Friedrich Ohmann .
After completing his studies, he worked with Oskar Strnad as a freelance architect from 1907 . In 1913, Josef Frank joined the company as a third employee. Wlach did his military service during the First World War and was decorated as a lieutenant. After that, the studio community with Strnad and Frank no longer existed, but they continued to work loosely together. After Strnad had withdrawn, Wlach and Frank founded a furniture company in Vienna, the Haus und Garten OHG .
Josef Frank had to emigrate in 1934 for political reasons. Wlach continued to run the company on his own during the “corporate state” if the order situation was good . After Austria was " annexed " to the German Reich in 1938, Wlach's company was "Aryanized" and he himself went to America via London. He obtained an architect license there in 1940, but no longer had any professional success. In 1957 he was still a draftsman in an interior design office and died penniless in a New York retirement home. Oskar Wlach found his final resting place next to his parents Albert and Fanni (née Hermann) and his sister Olga in the Old Jewish Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 1, Group 76B, Row 5, Number 4); his date of birth is incorrectly stated as April 8th on the tombstone.
Wlach is still wrongly overshadowed by Josef Frank. As an architect, he built an emphatically functional building, the residential complexes for the municipality of Vienna were more sober than most buildings from the interwar period. He also took part in the construction of the Werkbundsiedlung Vienna , which tried to break new ground. He was particularly successful as an interior architect and designer.
Works
(mostly in Vienna)
- House Hock , 19. , Cobenzlgasse 71 (1910)
- Scholl House , 19., Wilbrandtgasse 3 (1913–1914)
- Strauss House , 19., Wilbrandtgasse 11 (1913–1914)
- Wassermann House , 19th, Paul-Ehrlich-Gasse 4 (1914–1915)
- Houses and a slaughterhouse in Turkey (1916–1919)
- Hoffingergasse settlement , 12th , around 1921
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna Winarskyhof , 20. , 1924
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , 10. , Gellertgasse 42–48 / Bürgergasse 17–19 (1926–1927)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , 14. , Sebastian-Kelch-Gasse 1–3 (1928–1929)
- House Beer , 13. , Wenzgasse 12 (1930–1931)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna (since 2013: Rosa-Jochmann-Hof ), 11. , Simmeringer Hauptstraße 142–150 (1931–1932)
- Semi-detached Werkbundsiedlung , 13., Veitingergasse 99–101 (1931–1932)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , 10., Laaer-Berg-Straße 22–24 (1933–1935)
- House Bunzl , 19., Chimanistraße 18 (1936)
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 5 . Kremayr & Scheriau: Vienna, 1997
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Wlach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oskar Wlach. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wlach, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1963 |
| Place of death | New York City |