Wilhelm Baumgarten (architect)

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Wilhelm Baumgarten (born January 25, 1885 in Mährisch-Schönberg , † February 18, 1959 in Raleigh , North Carolina ) was an Austrian-American architect .

Stylized anger of
the Am Müllnermais settlement

Life

Baumgarten first made an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he completed in 1902. He then attended the State Trade School in Vienna until 1904 . After the officers' school in the Austro-Hungarian Army (1905/06) he finally studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Friedrich Ohmann (1907–1910). Baumgarten worked as a freelance architect until the First World War and then did his military service as a battery commander.

After the war he became an assistant to Peter Behrens and Franz Krauss at the academy (1919–1924). Between 1921 and 1933 he and his fellow student Josef Hofbauer formed a studio community in which urban residential complexes, but above all school buildings, were built. From 1932 to 1938 Baumgarten was a consulting architect for the Austrian tobacco monopoly.

In 1938 he received an appointment to lectures at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, but his departure application was not approved until 1940. In Raleigh, he taught perspective drawing and architectural history at North Carolina State College. In 1945 Baumgarten took on American citizenship, henceforth called himself William Ludwig Baumgarten, and received an architect license from the State of North Carolina. At North Carolina State College he became an assistant in the architecture department in 1947 and a professor of architecture in 1953, until he retired in 1958.

Wilhelm Baumgarten was married to Valerie, nee Neuber.

Works (selection)

Former Komensky School, Erlgasse, by Wilhelm Baumgarten and Josef Hofbauer
Residential complex at Bürgergasse 24 by Wilhelm Baumgarten and Josef Hofbauer
  • Kreuzbrunnen (renovation), Marienbad (1912–1913)
  • Hotel Radetzky , Hinterbrühl near Mödling (1912–1913)
  • New Life Settlement , Wulzendorferstrasse 96–124, Vienna 22 (1921–1922)
  • Settlement Am Müllnermais , Mühlhäufelweg 27–35 and 22–68, Vienna 22 (1922)
  • Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Bürgergasse 24, Vienna 10 (1924–1925)
  • Second vocational training school (today central vocational school), Hütteldorfer Strasse 7–17, Vienna 15 (1925–1926)
  • Komensky School , Vorgartenstrasse 95–97, Vienna 20 (1927–1928)
  • Residential complex of the municipality of Vienna Pirquethof , Herbststrasse 101, Vienna 16 (1929–1930)
  • Komensky School , Erlgasse 32–34 , Vienna 12 (1930–1931)
  • Komensky School , Wielandgasse 2–4, Vienna 10 (1931)
  • Komensky School , Sebastianplatz 3, Vienna 3 (1934–1935)
  • St. Pauls School , Robinson County, USA (1950)

Supports, awards

  • 1908/09: Baumgarten received Dobner of Dobenau - Scholarship
  • 1909/10: Julius Meinl travel grant
  • 1929: Silver Medal of Honor from the Cooperative of Fine Artists Vienna
  • 1936: Golden jubilee medal of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative
  • 1936: Cross of Merit for Art and Science of the Austrian corporate state
  • Awarded the title of Chamber Council (year not known)

reception

The team of architects Wilhelm Baumgarten and Josef Hofbauer were particularly successful in the 1920s. Although the New Building in simple forms was now preferred, they succeeded in realizing their own style by means of various structuring of the buildings (plaster strips, pilaster strips , clinker bricks , reliefs , ribbon windows or striking corner solutions).

In the overall assessment of the joint activities of the Baumgarten / Hofbauer office, the clear structure of their buildings is emphasized, in which the most modern materials and construction methods were used, always oriented towards the purpose of the building. At the same time, they mostly designed and implemented the interior fittings.

For the city of Vienna, they created large residential quarters, educational institutions and department stores that survived the Second World War and some of them are listed as historical monuments .

Own publications

  • (together with J. Hofbauer): Settlement draft for the Lainzer Tiergarten . In: The architect 24.1921 / 22, pp. 45ff.
  • (together with J. Hofbauer): For the new construction of the 2nd central building of the Viennese commercial advanced training school . In: ZÖIAV 78.1926, p. 27.
  • (together with J. Hofbauer): The new construction of the 2nd central building of the Viennese commercial advanced training school . In: Österr. Bauzeitung 2.1926, p. 822f.
  • A congress of civil architects and technical lawyers. In: Österr. Bauzeitung 6.1930, p. 773
  • To Landhaus Hinterbrühl. In: Bau- und Werkkunst 7.1930 / 31, pp. 235ff
  • (together with J. Hofbauer): Projected and executed buildings in a ten-year working group . Vienna 1931
  • (together with J. Hofbauer): A school in Austria. [Komensky School] In: Bauwelt 24.1933, H. 42, art print attachment. P. 5ff
  • Historic Regional Architecture . In: North Carolina State College, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1953, p. 19ff
  • Otto Wagner. In: North Carolina State College, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1957, p. 33ff

literature

  • W. Aichelburg: The Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861-2001. Vol. 1, Vienna 2003.
  • H. Weihsmann: The Red Vienna. Vienna 2002.
  • M. Boeckl (Ed.): Visionaries & Displaced Persons. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1995.
  • G. Koller, G. Withalm: The expulsion of the spiritual from Austria. Vienna 1985.
  • G. Hajos: The secular buildings of the III., IV., And V district. Vienna 1980.
  • H. and R. Hautmann: The municipal housing of the Red Vienna 1919-1934. Vienna 1980.
  • W. Wagner: The history of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Vienna 1967.
  • R. Schmidt: The Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–1951. Vienna 1951. p. 222.
  • (without authors): A school in Vienna. In: Architect and Buildings News February 4, 1938, pp. 163ff.
  • (without authors): Die Komenskischule vd Arch. J. Hofbauer and W. Baumgarten (Vienna 20, Vorgartenstr.) In: Bau- und Werkkunst 5.1928 / 29, pp. 141ff and 8.1932, pp. 12ff.
  • (without authors): Expansion of the women's clothing department in the A. Herzmansky department store. In: Bau- und Werkkunst 7.1930 / 31, pp. 135ff.
  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the techn. w. Federal Educational Institute Vienna I. 1880–1930.
  • (without authors): Competition for the drinking hall system of the municipality of Baden. In: Bau- und Werkkunst 4.1928, no. 4, p. 112ff.
  • The new Vienna. Municipal works. (Ed. Municipality of Vienna), Vienna 1926–1928.
  • A. Weiser: The new building of the second central building of the Viennese vocational training school. In: Österreichische Bau- und Werkkunst 3.1926 / 27, p. 287ff.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Baumgarten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Baumgarten. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on March 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Baumgarten in the architectural dictionary
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgarten, William Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Schönberg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1959
Place of death Raleigh , North Carolina