Theodor Bach

Theodor Karl Bach (born November 17, 1858 in Vienna , † January 18, 1938 in Prague ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Theodor Bach was the son of the businessman Carl Theodor Bach and his wife Marie Julie Schumann, the sister of the architect Carl Schumann , who was also his godfather. Theodor Bach attended the Technical University in Vienna from 1877 to 1883 with Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König .

From 1882 to 1884 he was an assistant for structural engineering at the Technical University. In 1884, Bach became chief architect of the Vienna Construction Company and remained so for 14 years. In addition, he also worked independently in Vienna, Salzburg , Padua and Bucharest . Several times, from about 1890 to 1904, he shared an office with his former classmate Leopold Simony . In addition, he worked from 1888 to 1889 as an assistant teacher at the Vienna State Trade School .

In 1908 Bach received the professorship for structural engineering and architectural drawing at the German Technical University in Prague (until 1928). Since then he lived and worked in Prague, where he died at the age of eighty. Since 1896 he was married to Therese Ast and had a son.

Lutherhof (1894–1895), with Ludwig Schöne

Lobmeyerhof (1898–1902), with Leopold Simony

Marine Section of the War Ministry (1906), with Ettore Fenderl

Arthaber fountain (1906)

plant

Theodor Bach was a representative of the traditional historicist style. Occasionally, however, he also used secessionist elements in his buildings. The main focus of his work was residential construction, where he endeavored to work solidly and to build aesthetically pleasing. In addition, he also built villas and, above all, workers' houses, which became the forerunners of community housing in Red Vienna . Although they were traditionally designed on the outside, they had trend-setting elements inside, such as communal facilities or large green courtyards. In addition, Theodor Bach also emerged as a writer with treatises on urban planning and housing.

• Residential house , Abt-Karl-Gasse 47, Vienna 18 (1888)
• Residential house , Herbststrasse 22, Vienna 16 (1888)
• Residential house , Schwarzspanierstrasse 7, Vienna 9 (1893), with Carl Schumann
• Villa Richter , Beckgasse 25, Vienna 13 (1894), formerly Reichgasse
• Lutherhof (parsonage, school and residential building), Martinstrasse 25 / Schuhmanngasse, Vienna 18 (1894–1895), with Ludwig Schöne, a listed building
• Villas , Stoesselgasse 11 u. 15, Vienna 13 (1895), formerly Leopold-Müller-Gasse
• Villa Wenzl , Hadersdorf (1895), with Leopold Simony
• Luther Church , Evangelical Parish Church AB , Martinstrasse 25, Vienna 18 (1896–1898), with Ludwig Schöne , a listed building
• “Casa Piccola” residential and commercial buildings , Mariahilfer Strasse 1b-d, Vienna 6 (1896–1902), with Carl Schumann
• Residential and commercial building , Wallnerstrasse 2 / Kohlmarkt , Vienna 1 (1898), Thonet business premises, rebuilt in 1971 by Karl and Eva Mang, listed as a historical monument
• Kaiser Franz Josef Jubilee Foundation for people's apartments and welfare institutions “Lobmeyerhof” , Roseggergasse 2–6 / Wernhardtstraße 13–19, Vienna 16 (1898–1902), with Leopold Simony, partly replaced by new buildings, under monument protection
• Residential and commercial building , Wipplingerstraße 12, Vienna 1 (1901)
• Rental house “Zum Heiducken” , Spiegelgasse 19, Vienna (1901), with Leopold Simony
• Workers' houses of the Accident Insurance Institute for Lower Austria , Leopoldauer Strasse 79–81, Vienna 21 (1900–1907), with Leopold Simony, under monument protection
• Residential and commercial building , Fleischmarkt 28 / Postgasse 15, Vienna 1 (1902)
• Rental houses , Postgasse 11 and 13, Vienna 1 (1902–1903), facade decor chipped
• Dormitory of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , Peter-Jordan-Straße 65 / Dänenstraße 2A, Vienna 18 (1904)
• Residential building , Dominikanerbastei 6 / Falkestraße , Vienna 1 (1904)
• Residential houses , Grosse Mohrengasse 35 and 37, Vienna 2 (1904), demolished
• Rental house , Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz 6, Vienna (1906)
• Official building of the naval section of the Ministry of War , Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 9, Vienna 3 (1906), with Ettore Fenderl, today the General Directorate of the Austrian Federal Forests, under monument protection
• Arthaberbrunnen , Arthaberplatz , Vienna 10 (1906), a listed building
• House of the electric elevator on the Mönchsberg , Salzburg
• Villa in Prague-Holešovice , V Holešovičkách 1157/27
• House block for the Prague People's Housing Association Prague-Holešovice , Bubenská 13–15 (together with Adolf Foehr ) (1922)

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Bach Karl Theodor. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 222 ( digitized version ).
• Helmut Weihsmann: Built in Vienna. Lexicon of 20th Century Viennese Architects . Promedia, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85371-234-7 , pp. 23-24
• Lukeš, Zdeněk: Settling the debt: German-speaking architects in Prague 1900–1938 (Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900–1938). Praha: Fraktály Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. ISBN 80-86627-04-7 . Chapter Karl Theodor Bach, pp. 26-27

Web links

Commons : Theodor Karl Bach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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