Rudolf Perthen

Rudolf Perthen (born April 30, 1884 in Bodenbach , Bohemia ; † August 23, 1941 in Bad Gastein ) was an Austrian architect.

Eisenstadt country house

Official settlement in Eisenstadt

Marianne-Hainisch-Hof, Vienna 3

Life

Rudolf Perthen, son of the master builder Karl Perthen, graduated from the technical college in Reichenberg and then studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Otto Wagner . From 1910 he worked in the studio of the architect Leopold Bauer , from 1914 to 1919 he was an assistant at the Vienna Art Academy. From 1919 Perthen was self-employed.

He was a representative of factual and functional modernity. His main work includes the Landhaus Eisenstadt and numerous residential buildings in Eisenstadt and Vienna from the interwar period. He was an active member of the Central Association of Austrian Architects and a long-time member of the board of directors and member of the Vienna Secession .

Perthen died in 1941 on a mountain tour on the Gamskar near Bad Gastein ; the grave is at the Vienna-Pötzleinsdorf cemetery. In Eisenstadt the Rudolf-Perthen-Gasse is named after him.

Works (selection)

1926–29 Eisenstadt country house
1926–31 Eisenstadt official housing estate, Ignaz-Till-Straße (with Alexius Wolf)
1927 Marianne-Hainisch-Hof, Vienna-Landstrasse
1931 Burgenland Regional Health Insurance Fund, Eisenstadt
some villas and apartment buildings in Vienna
Municipal office, public library and savings bank in Bodenbach / Bohemia (Podmókly)
District Hospital Aussig / Bohemia (Usti nad Labem)

Awards

1930 gold medal of the Republic of Austria
1930 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Austrian Order of Merit
1936 Knight's Cross of the Italian Order of the Crown

Web links

Rudolf Perthen. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
Rudolf Perthen in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ The Tetschen-Bodenbach statement, which occurs several times in the literature, is incorrect. The two cities were not united until the Nazi era.
↑ Rudolf Perthen's grave

personal data
SURNAME	Perthen, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bodenbach , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	August 23, 1941
Place of death	Bad Gastein

[1] The Tetschen-Bodenbach statement, which occurs several times in the literature, is incorrect. The two cities were not united until the Nazi era.

[2] Rudolf Perthen's grave