Otho Orlando Short
Otho Orlando Kurz (born June 1, 1881 in Florence , Italy ; † May 11, 1933 in Munich ; often OO Kurz ) was a German architect .
Life
Otho Orlando Kurz was born in Florence as the son of the sculptor Erwin Kurz , an employee of Adolf von Hildebrand . In 1893 Adolf von Hildebrand was appointed professor at the Munich Art Academy and Erwin Kurz's family moved to Munich. Otho Orlando attended high school in Munich. After graduating from high school, he first studied electrical engineering, but then switched to architecture. After graduating with the main diploma examination, Kurz worked as an intern with Friedrich von Thiersch , Hans Grässel and Heinrich von Schmidt, among others .
In 1908 he was commissioned with the construction of the Catholic parish church in Milbertshofen and, together with Eduard Herbert, founded an architectural office that was able to secure numerous prestigious building contracts in Munich. In 1911, Kurz was appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich , where he taught drawing.
During the First World War , Kurz was initially assigned to monument protection and retired from military service in 1917 to build an industrial building in Munich for the Bayerische Motorenwerke. Until 1928 he worked repeatedly as a house architect for BMW . In the 1920s, he was also known for a number of housing projects, which he built in a style close to the New Objectivity. Shortly after the end of the war, Otho Orlando designed three high-rise buildings for the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, one cylindrical, one rectangular and one very expansive, which was to become a hotel. Together with Hermann Sörgel , Kurz planned several high-rise cubes with 15 floors and ten elevators as a circle of towers around the old town. These should be 50 meters high and made of reinforced concrete. None of the projects was realized.
In addition to his construction activity, Kurz also designed furniture and grave monuments (including the tomb of Paul Heyse in the Munich forest cemetery).
Otho Orlando Kurz died on May 11, 1933 of blood poisoning, which he suffered while shaving.
plant
- 1908: Competition design for a fountain on Josephsplatz in Munich (together with his father Erwin Kurz ; awarded one of five equal prizes; not executed)
- 1908–1909: House for Karl Eugen Müller (called "Wasserschlössl") in Fürstenfeldbruck , Emmeringer Straße 43
- 1910: Competition design for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (together with the sculptor Bernhard Bleeker ; not awarded a prize)
- 1910: Villa Wolfratshauser Strasse 50 in Munich
- 1910–1912: Tengstrasse 22, 24, 26, 33, 35, 37, 43 houses in Munich
- 1911–1912: Tenement houses at Agnesstrasse 10 to 16 and Tengstrasse 20 to 26 in Munich
- 1912: St. Georg parish church in Munich- Milbertshofen (with Eduard Herbert; under monument protection )
- 1912: Vollnhals house in Munich
- 1912–1914: St. Otto parish church in Bamberg
- 1917–1918: Plant facilities, main gate (building E and F) and administrative building (building B) of today's Knorr works , (see also: BMW Group Classic )
- 1920–1925: Tram settlement in Munich
- 1924–1925: Neufinsing power station on the Middle Isar Canal
- 1925: War memorial of the Bavarian Motor Force Theresienhöhe
- 1925–1926: Parish Church of St. Gabriel in Munich
- 1926–1927: BMW assembly hall in Munich
- 1926–1927: Apartment block Rheinstrasse 27,29,31 and residential building Simmernstrasse 1
- 1926–1928: Moll apartment block in Munich
- 1927: Four-wing residential complex on Lindenschmitstrasse / Meindlstrasse in Munich (together with Herbert Eduard)
- 1928–1929: St. Sebastian parish church in Munich
- 1929–1930: Apartment block on Steubenplatz in Munich, so-called “American block”, as the end of the Neuhausen settlement
- 1930: Housing complex Schleißheimer Strasse 214, 216, 218, Karl-Theodor-Strasse 102, 104, 106 and Bechsteinstrasse 1, 3, 5, 7 in Munich
- 1930–1931: Housing complex Böttingerstraße 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
- 1932–1935: Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate
literature
- Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf . In: Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history , 68. 2015/1 (April), pp. 74–82.
- Adolf Feulner : OO Kurz and E. Herbert. (= Neue Werkkunst . ) FE Hübsch Verlag, Berlin 1927.
- Peter Stuckenberger: The Munich architect Otho Orlando Kurz (1881–1933) In: Baukultur 1/1997, pp. 39–42
- Peter Stuckenberger: The church buildings of the Munich architect Otho Orlando Kurz In: Das Münster 1/1998, P. 78–80
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 42, 1908, No. 49 (from June 17, 1908), p. 336. (Note on the competition result)
- ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)
- ↑ Alckens: Monuments and memorials of Munich. Callwey, Munich 1936 (p. 186–187 with illus. The monument stylized a tank, or depicting a tank.)
- ↑ Bavarian Monument Atlas, http://www.blfd.bayern.de/ , file no. D-1-62-000-3971
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | In short, Otho Orlando |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | In short, OO; In short, Otto Orlando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |