Otto Niedermoser

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Otto Niedermoser (born May 5, 1903 in Vienna ; † March 4, 1976 ibid) was an Austrian set designer (stage design, film architecture), architect and university teacher .

Training and theater work

The son of the master upholsterer Wilhelm Niedermoser attended the arts and crafts school in his home town of Vienna from 1917 to 1922 , where he was taught by the architect Oskar Strnad , and completed his training in 1928 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . Study trips took him to Dalmatia , Italy , Germany , France and England . From 1935 to 1938, together with Ceno Kosak, he was head of the "General Forms" class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

From 1924, Niedermoser worked as a stage and costume designer at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt , later also at the London St James's Theater, the Deutsches Theater Berlin , as well as the Viennese institutions Burgtheater , State Opera , Volksoper , Volkstheater and Kammerspiele . Guest tours took him to Salzburg ( Festival ) and New York , in 1957 a study and lecture tour took him to China .

Activity as an architect

House in the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung, designed by Otto Niedermoser together with Karl Augustinus Bieber

In addition to his intensive theatrical work, Otto Niedermoser also found the time to work beyond the fine arts. He also designed the building construction and interior design departments : in 1932, two row houses were built in the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung based on his designs , and in 1941 he redesigned the theater in the German-occupied Lorraine capital of Metz . Around the same time, the government commissioned Metz to equip the government building and the Chamber of Commerce according to Niedermoser's designs, as well as the Bürckel house in Saarbrücken . In 1950 he renovated the theater in der Josefstadt, from 1955–1957 the Urania in Vienna was repaired and rebuilt. Between 1960 and 1962, Niedermoser directed the renovation of the Theater an der Wien , and in 1963 the renovation of the synagogue in Vienna's Seitenstettengasse. In 1973 he took over the renovation of the Kammerspiele at Vienna's meat market .

Teaching and drafting for the film

The Viennese, who was awarded numerous prizes, was later offered a professorship and was primarily active as head of the stage and film design class at the Academy of Applied Arts and also as a lecturer at the Max Reinhardt Seminar .

Given this plethora of activities, Niedermoser's architectural contributions to the film were limited to a handful of productions between 1936 and 1952. In 1963 he returned to the cinema and designed the buildings that the film director Otto Preminger , who once emigrated to Hollywood from Vienna, needed for the Viennese sequences of his film Der Kardinal .

In his honor, a street in Vienna 22 was named after him (Niedermoserstraße).

tomb

He is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40).

Filmography

Awards and honors

Publications

  • Room layout in the small house. In: Schöne Wohnen 1.1927, 1. H., p. 20.
  • New living. Vienna 1952
  • Otto Niedermoser: Nice living. Beautiful life . Humboldt Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1954.
  • Oskar Strnad: 1879-1935. Vienna 1965
  • A house in Sievering, In; profile 3.1935, H..9, p. 424f.
  • Is a total work of art - architecture, painting, sculpture - still possible today? In: profil 16.1961, October, special issue, p. 2f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Niedermoser. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  2. ↑ http://www.cs-design.at/werkbundsiedlung/niedermoser.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cs-design.at  

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 674.
  • Heinz P. Adamek : Otto Niedermoser (1903-1976), Jung Vienna - a temptation . In: Heinz P. Adamek: "KUNSTAKKORDE - diagonal". Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20250-9 . Pp. 136-153

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personal data
SURNAME Niedermoser, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian production designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1976
Place of death Vienna