Rudolf Giendl

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Rudolf Giendl (born March 5, 1894 in Völkermarkt , † April 4, 1971 in Bruck an der Mur ) was an Austrian architect and university professor .

Life

Rudolf Giendl was born in Völkermarkt in Carinthia in 1894 and, after graduating from high school , studying and doing military service, worked as an architect from 1922 and 1923. Already from 1920 to 1927 he appeared in the chairs of spatial art and architecture of the Renaissance at the Graz University of Technology and was also professor at the Federal School for Building, Art and Machine Locksmiths in Bruck / Mur , which in the 1960s Years when HTL Kapfenberg was founded. From 1938 to 1945 he was also director of this institution. In the course of his life, Giendl received several awards; among other things in various architecture competitions. On the occasion of an art exhibition in Leoben he was once awarded a state prize . Furthermore, he once received the silver medal of the city of Graz . In 1959 he received recognition from the then state government for an apartment building and for the passage of traffic at the Minoritenkirche in Bruck an der Mur . Numerous designs and completed buildings were created primarily in Bruck an der Mur and in Graz. In Bruck, among other things, in 1955 an armory and residential building with a riser tower in Fraunederstraße or the now listed Hahnhof , a residential courtyard built between 1949 and 1953 in the district of Grabenfeldstraße - Lutherstraße - Fraunederstraße - Goethestraße with 150 apartments, which is named after August Hahn, the post-war mayor of Bruck.

At the side of Dorli Raupach he was also involved in the construction of the Brucker Westendsiedlung with 13 semi-detached houses. According to his plans, the Bruck-Westend and Bruck-Pischk elementary schools were also built . All of his buildings were built in a landscape-bound manner. Also in Upper Styria, the secondary school and the retirement home in Fohnsdorf were built according to his plans , as well as numerous family houses in Bruck an der Mur and the rest of Styria, whereby he was often only responsible for interior design. The Stukitzbad in Graz-Andritz was created in collaboration with Heinrich Klinger , with whom he has often appeared in an advisory capacity since the 1920s . In addition, numerous residential buildings in Graz and the surrounding area were built according to his plans. As the Styrian Nature Conservation Letter from November and December 1968, the official organ of the nature conservation authority, the regional group of the ÖNB, the mountain rescue service and the forest protection association, Giendl took part in the “Association for Homeland Protection”. In 1970 he received the Golden Diploma from TH Graz , which is awarded to graduates 50 years after graduation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Bruck an der Mur No. 119/1971.
  2. ↑ According to the official website of the HTL Kapfenberg, he appeared as a professor there from 1926 to 1946; look here
  3. ↑ Styrian Nature Conservation Letter - 8th year - November / December 1968, p. 14 , accessed on October 22, 2017
  4. ↑ Golden Diplomas (awarded in 1970) , accessed on October 22, 2017
  5. ↑ 50 years after graduation , accessed on October 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Giendl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Völkermarkt , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1971
Place of death Bruck an der Mur