Silvio Mohr

Starchant parish church (1928–1929) by Silvio Mohr and Robert Hartinger

Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna (1932–1933) by Silvio Mohr and Robert Hartinger

Silvio Mohr (born July 16, 1882 in Vienna ; † February 18, 1965 in Iselsberg ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Silvio Mohr studied architecture from 1901 to 1909 at the Technical University in Vienna under Karl König , which he completed with a doctorate. During his studies and until 1911 he worked as an intern with various well-known architects. From this point on, Mohr worked as a freelancer and also taught as an assistant at the department for structural engineering at the Technical University. He was a soldier throughout the First World War and in 1918 ended his service in a highly decorated manner as captain of an artillery regiment.

After the war, Mohr mainly worked with Robert Hartinger . Both built mainly settlements for housing cooperatives and the municipality of Vienna, but also houses, villas and factories. In 1929 Mohr became associate professor for encyclopedia of building construction at the faculty for mechanical engineering and chemistry. After the death of his partner Hartinger, he continued to run the architecture office on his own; at the same time, his teaching activities expanded from 1940. During the Second World War Mohr was considered indispensable and was head of an air defense technology seminar from 1941 to 1944. However, due to a homosexual inclination that was said to him , he lost his office in 1944 and was imprisoned until the end of the war. After the war he moved to East Tyrol and after a long wait for his rehabilitation he worked there as an architect.

meaning

Silvio Mohr had a conservative orientation as an architect and was also repeatedly involved in Christian-social construction projects in the interwar period. He preferred housing estates that came closer to this ideal than the social democratic superblocks of the same time. He also dealt with church building. In general, Mohr was anxious to adapt his buildings to the surroundings and the regional architecture, but was also open to modern trends if the order situation allowed it. Mohr mainly built with partners, so that his special part in the buildings is difficult to determine.

Works

• Gartenheim settlement , Vienna 22 (1921), together with Robert Hartinger and Karl Krist
• Starchant settlement , Johann-Staud-Straße 12–24, Vienna 16 (1922–1938), together with Robert Hartinger
• Kurheim St. Sebastian , Welser Strasse 12-14, Bad Schallerbach (1924), together with Robert Hartinger
• Extension for Christian trade union building , Laudongasse 16, Vienna 8 (1925)
• Kristall-Eisfabrik , Pasettistraße 71–75, Vienna 20 (1925–1926), together with Ferdinand Fuchsik
• Administration building of the tobacco control room , Schwaz in Tirol (1926)
• Settlement of the Austrian Tobacco Directorate , Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 25–29, Schwaz in Tirol (1926–1929), together with Robert Hartinger
• Residential buildings , Gmünd in Lower Austria (1928)
• Parish church Starchant , Vienna 16 (1928–1929), together with Robert Hartinger
• Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Triester Straße 85, Vienna 10 (1932–1933), together with Robert Hartinger
• Settlement Am Wienerberg , Weitmosergasse 1–59, Vienna 10 (1932–1935), together with Robert Hartinger
• Residential and commercial building , St. Veiter Straße 15, Klagenfurt (1932–1935)
• Oberschule am Krautberg , Elsa-Brandström-Straße 5, Amstetten (1938–1939)
• Wallackhaus am Hochtor, Heiligenblut , Großglockner (1951)
• various country houses in East Tyrol (after 1945)

Silvio Mohr also built a church in Vršac in Serbia, a pulmonary hospital of the Austrian Federal Railways health insurance in Judendorf-Straßengel in Styria, a bathing facility in Klosterneuburg , residential buildings in Amstetten , Hainburg on the Danube and Tulln on the Danube , Grieskirchen , Lambach , Fürstenfeld and Wattens , as well as villa buildings in Mödling and Nadelburg , which cannot be determined in terms of time.

Fonts

• The building construction. An encyclopedia of building materials and construction . Springer Verlag, Vienna 1936.

literature

• Alexander Haider: The workers' houses of the Austrian Tobacco Directorate in Schwaz by architect ao Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Silvio Mohr / Ing. Robert Hartinger (1926-1929). Thesis. University of Innsbruck, 2002.

Web links

• Silvio Mohr. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.