Arnold Karplus

Arnold Karplus (* June 24, 1877 in Wigstadtl, Austrian Silesia, Austria - Hungary, † October 17, 1943 in Caracas, Venezuela) was an Austrian architect.

The in several texts cited in the internt death in 1968 is erroneous. In some texts, a place of death in the United States is called.

Life

Karplus was born as the son of the merchant Benedict Karplus. He attended the State Trade School in Opava, studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Vienna and Prague, and in 1903 received his doctorate in engineering. From 1904 lived Karplus in Vienna, first as an employee in the studio of architect Alexander Wielemans. He has participated in several competitions and was mainly active in residential construction.

Karplus 1911 was as k.k. national court expert and appraiser under oath and was Planning Director of the Vienna Building Company, a position he held until the liquidation of the company in 1927. In World War Karplus was first commissioned as a lieutenant and then a captain with the establishment of military utility buildings. Arnold Karplus began in 1927 as an independent architect. In the years 1934 to 1938 he led a joint practice with his son Gerhard Karplus.

1933-1938 he lived with his family in 1910 by Adolf Loos for Lilly and Hugo Steiner built house Steiner, Vienna 13, St. - Veit- Gasse 10, in the district sub- part - St - Veit. ( The couple Steiner had moved to Paris in 1927. ) The house is imaged repeatedly in works for architecture in Vienna.

As a result of the "Anschluss " of Austria by Nazi Germany came his daughter Ruth from a visit with her grandmother in Prague no longer returned to Vienna, but emigrated to New York. His son Gerhard fled in 1938 also in the United States, his son Hans to South America. Arnold Karplus, 1939 at the address in the address book 13, Auhofstraße 92, recorded, and his wife Else followed in 1939 to New York to.

Realizations

Memberships

  • 1906: Austrian Engineers and Architects Association
  • 1908: Central Association of Austrian Architects
  • 1920: Niederösterreichischer Business Association

Writings

  • About the architecture of castles in the lands of the Bohemian crown, Thesis, Prague 1903
  • New villas and villas in Austria, Vienna 1910
  • Gerhard Karplus: in: Viennese architect, a selection of designs and completed buildings, Elbmühl - Verlag Wien / Leipzig 1935
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