Rudolf Frass

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Rudolf Frass (born April 17, 1880 in St. Pölten ; † July 7, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Frass was the son of the director of the St. Pölten gas works, Alois Frass and his wife Anna Reisinger. His brother was the sculptor Wilhelm Frass . Both brothers attended the State Trade School in Vienna and then the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He studied here from 1900 to 1904 with Otto Wagner . In 1906 he opened a studio in Vienna with his brother, while at the same time he set up his residence in St. Sebastian near Mariazell . In the same year he married Friederike Strauss, with whom he later had four children. Before the First World War, hotels and villas were built in Lower Austria and Vienna. Good contacts with wealthy industrialists brought him numerous orders. In the 1920s, Frass also carried out plans for some social housing complexes in Vienna, often together with other architects. In addition, he took part in numerous competitions and made designs that caused a stir. 1927-28 he was in America on a lecture tour. His successful career was ended by two strokes, the second of which was fatal. His architectural community, founded in 1932 with the former employees Hrabal and Busch, meant that these two initially continued the office, but after a short time they moved to America with the numerous existing plans.

power

Frass was a very successful architect in Vienna and Lower Austria in the first half of the 20th century. He was a typical Otto Wagner student who started with secessionist buildings and then incorporated elements of the Heimat style. As a result, his buildings in Lower Austria adapted well to local conditions. In Vienna he represented the typical Viennese municipal building style, in which modern forms were combined with design elements of the Heimat style, such as bay windows or figural decorations (often by his brother Wilhelm). Some designs could not be realized, such as an arbor in Baden, a secondary school in St. Pölten (the so-called "Windradl") or the first high-rise building in Vienna.

Works

Residential complex Am Wienerberg
Secondary school Lilienfeld: built in 1928/29 by Rudolf Fraß in the New Objectivity style and expanded between 1960 and 64.
  • Villa Marienheim in St. Pölten (1902)
  • Villa Tausig in St. Pölten (1906)
  • Alpenkurhotel Gösing on the Mariazellerbahn (1907–12)
  • Hotel Rohrbacherhof in Mariazell (1909)
  • Hallerhof in Puchenstuben (1909-10)
  • Villa Marchetstrasse 40, Baden (1910)
  • Hotel Zur Kaiserin of Austria, St. Pölten (1912–13)
  • Voithvilla in St. Pölten (1913–17)
  • Schneeberger residential and commercial building, St. Pölten (1914)
  • Villa Jahnstraße 20, St. Pölten (1914)
  • Villa in Kreuzberg 56, Payerbach (1914–15)
  • Villa in Loosdorf (1914–15)
  • Refugee camps in various parts of the monarchy (1914-18)
  • Hotel Laufenstein, Mariazell (1920)
  • Hotel Burger, Wienerbruck (1921) (demolished in 2014, now a parking lot)
  • Alpenkurhotel in Puchenstuben (1921)
  • Landhaus Flesch in St. Sebastian near Mariazell (1921)
  • War memorial in Tarrenz, Tyrol (1922)
  • Mausoleum of Prince Ladislaus Batthyány, Körmend, Hungary (1923)
  • Residential and commercial building Heßstrasse 2-6, St. Pölten (1923)
  • Residential and office building at Heßstrasse 14, St. Pölten (1924)
  • Dorotheum in St. Pölten (1924-25)
  • Residential complex Am Wienerberg , Vienna 12 (1925–27) together with Karl Dorfmeister and Rudolf Perco
  • Housing complex Professor-Jodl-Hof , Vienna 19 (1925–26) together with Rudolf Perco and Karl Dorfmeister
  • War memorial in Melk (1926)
  • Christmas show at the Vienna Künstlerhaus - design of exhibition spaces (1926)
  • Valley and mountain station of the cable car to the Bürgeralpe , Mariazell (1927) (valley station 2004, mountain station demolished April 2019)
  • War memorial in Mautern, Styria (1928)
  • Hotel 3 Hasen in Mariazell (1928)
  • Elementary and secondary school in Dörfl near Lilienfeld (1928–29)
  • Villa Graarud, Vienna 18 (1928–29)
  • Goethehof residential complex , building block B, Vienna 22 (1929–30)
  • Villa Meinl, Ramsau in Lower Austria (1930)
  • Rental house Am Modenapark 7, Vienna 3 (1930–31)
  • Rental house Rathausplatz 2, St. Pölten (1932)

literature

  • Hans and Rudolf Hautmann: The municipal housing of the Red Vienna 1919-1934. Vienna 1980

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Frass, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1934
Place of death Vienna