Robert Kramreiter
Robert Kramreiter (born September 18, 1905 in Vienna , † April 20, 1965 in Mariazell ) was an Austrian architect .
Life
Kramreiter's father came from Regelsbrunn adDonau and his mother from Moravia . After middle school he learned the trade of bricklayer and also worked as a carpenter .
After attending a construction school and internships with well-known Viennese architects with competitive successes, Kramreiter became an architecture master student with Peter Behrens at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Kramreiter graduated in 1928 and received the Austrian state travel grant , the Rome Prize .
At first Kramreiter devoted himself primarily to industrial and exhibition construction. In Düsseldorf and Berlin he worked on large exhibition buildings. At the end of 1928, Kramreiter accepted an invitation from Dominikus Böhm to Cologne. In the department for church art at the Cologne factory schools , Böhm ran his own architecture office. Böhm mainly dealt with modern church building and Kramreiter became his assistant there.
In 1933 Kramreiter started his own business in Vienna and stayed there until 1937. In 1934 he married Josepha Nüttgen, and a year later his first child, Ingeborg Maria, was born in Vienna. His first work started in Vienna was taking part in the competition for the Seipel-Dollfuss Memorial Church in Vienna XV. His design was shortlisted at the same time as that of Clemens Holzmeister ; in the end, however, Holzmeister was given preference. Due to the associated attention of the press and the church authorities, Kramreiter was commissioned to build a small village church in Kledering near Schwechat in 1933 . Kramreiter then built various churches in Vienna and Lower Austria, working closely with Pius Parsch . In 1937 he was appointed full professor for structural engineering subjects at the State Trade School in Vienna I.
In 1938 Kramreiter worked in Spain and in 1941 he also moved his residence there. In 1939 his first son, the future photographer Pedro Kramreiter, and in 1943 his second son Tomás, who later embarked on a career as a pianist, were born in Madrid. During this time numerous church, school, hotel, factory and house buildings were built.
Returning to Vienna in 1950, he planned and built other churches, schools and monasteries. In 1951 he was again President of the Austrian Society for Christian Art.
On April 20, 1965, Robert Kramreiter-Klein died in the pilgrimage site of Mariazell.
honors and awards
In 1957 he received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregory from Pope Pius XII. and was invested in the order of knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . In 1961 he was honored with the Spanish Order Comendador de la Orden del Mérito Civil . Furthermore, in 1961 he was awarded the title of Baurat honoris causa by the Austrian Federal President and the Golden Medal of Honor of the Künstlerhaus by the Society of Visual Artists.
In the 21st district of Vienna, Floridsdorf , the Kramreitergasse was named after him in 1972 and the Kramreiterweg in 1997 . In the Scharndorf district of Regelsbrunn (district of Bruck ad Leitha) he is the namesake for the Prof. Robert Kramreiter Ring .
Works
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Klederinger Church (1933)
Parish Church Edlach an der Rax (designed in 1936)
Parish Church Liesing
(1953–1955)
Neuerdberg Parish Church
(1954–1958)
Laßnitzhöhe Church (1962)
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Publications
- with Pius Parsch : New Church Art in the Spirit of Liturgy , Volksliturgischer Verlag, Vienna-Klosterneuburg 1939. (Translated into Spanish by Moises Diaz Caneja: Arquitectura Y liturgia 1948.)
- The Schottengruft in Vienna. Gravesite of Heinrich Jasomirgott and Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg , Wiener Schottenstift, Vienna 1962.
- with Josef Engelbert Tomaschek: The god settlement of St. Erentrudis in Salzburg-Herrnau . Parish office Salzburg-Herrnau, Salzburg 1963.
- with Lothar Schreyer : Salzburg Herrnau. For God and the People , Metten, Vienna 1963.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Kramreiter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Kramreiter. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kramreiter, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kramreiter-Klein, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1965 |
| Place of death | Mariazell |