Gustav Peichl

Gustav Peichl ( born March 18, 1928 in Vienna, Austria ) is an Austrian architect and author. Under the pseudonym Ironimus he draws cartoons for The Press, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the ORF.

Life

Peichl attended from 1938 secondary school for boys in Moravian- Trübau and returned after visiting the Federal Trade School in Vienna Mödling, Department of Building Construction ( 1943-1944 ) back to 1947 and was a draftsman at Stadtbauamt in Moravian- Trübau. Then he was at the State Industrial School Linz, where he graduated in 1949 with A-levels.

Peichl studied until 1953 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; he was a pupil of Clement Wood Master. From 1952 to 1954, Peichl employees in the studio of Roland Rainer. In 1955 he opened his own architectural office; 1991 saw the founding of the studio Peichl & Partner in 2002 and the re-establishment Peichl & Partner ZT with Rudolf Weber.

Since 1954, he also acts as a cartoonist under the pseudonym known Ironimus. According to its own statement that he chose this for their own protection because he could not publish caricatures of Soviet officers in the Soviet zone of occupation under his real name otherwise.

In 1964, the magazine Peichl Bau - journal for architecture and urbanism with Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler and Oswald Oberhuber. Even the World's Fair Pavilion for the World Exhibition in 1964, is designed by him. From 1973 to 1996 he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Director of the Master School and in 1987 was with a few years as rector.

As an architect, he was known by the construction of six studios for the ORF, which are all built on the same architectural principle: the rooms are arranged around a central space in the form of segments of a circle, which is why the nickname Peichl Pie was born. In Germany, the Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn and the day care center in Berlin near the Reichstag building his most prominent works. Characteristic of Peichl buildings is the use of exposed concrete.

As a political cartoonist Peichl appeared under the pseudonym Ironimus 1954 for the first time in the daily newspaper Die Presse with " Julius Raab dreams of the State Treaty" on. Since 1964 Peichl records under this pseudonym for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Between 1971 and 1996 he designed for New Year's Eve in the ORF one years rearview. He has a permanent exhibition with Manfred Deix in the Caricature Museum in Krems on the Danube.

Peichl lives in a house designed by himself, in the 19th district ( Road to Heaven ) in Vienna. He is married and has two sons - Mark ( then and now (2010) a journalist, 2003-2007 Editorial Director of the talk show of Reinhold Beckmann ), Sebastian ( Bachelor of Communications, former CEO of design agency ART COM, Berlin) - and a daughter, Ina - who has worked as a set designer and costume designer.

The artist is a member of the Künstlerhaus Vienna and heard since the end of the 1960s at the Artists' Association MARCH.

Works ( as an architect )

  • Atrium School Crimea, 1962-1963, in Vienna.
  • Boarding school, 1964-1966, Dominican Convent
  • Rehabilitation center for brain injured Meidling, 1965-1967, in Meidling, Austria
  • ORF Studios, 1969-1982, in Dornbirn Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg.
  • Phosphate elimination plant, 1980-1985, in Berlin, built as part of the International Building at Lake Tegel.
  • Stage for the Pope's visit at Heldenplatz in Vienna, 1983
  • Federal Art Gallery ( Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany ), 1985-1992 in Bonn
  • Cultivation of the Städel Museum, 1987-1991, in Frankfurt am Main
  • ORF studios Lower Austria, 1997, in St. Pölten
  • Rehearsal building of the Munich Chamber Games, 1997-2001 in Munich
  • Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber: Millennium Tower, 1997-1999, in Vienna, with 202 meters formerly the tallest building in Austria
  • Office and commercial building Wilhelm Eck - Wilhelmstrasse 72, Berlin 1999-2003
  • Daycare of the German Bundestag, 1998-1999, in the newly created government district of Berlin
  • Caricature Museum Krems 2001
  • Messe Wien Neu, 2002-2003, in Vienna
  • House of Mercy Tokyo Street, 2003-2006, in Vienna's Danube city

Honors and Awards

  • City of Vienna Prize for Architecture ( 1969)
  • Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture ( 1971)
  • Reynolds Memorial Award from the AIA (1975 )
  • Honorary Membership of the Association of German Architects BDA (1983 )
  • Styrian Architecture Prize (1984 )
  • Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (1986 )
  • Berlin Architecture Award (1989 )
  • Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna (1993 )
  • Big Sudeten German Culture Prize (1993 )
  • Award to the German Architecture Prize (1993 )
  • Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1996 )
  • Honorary member of the American Institute of Architects ( 1996)
  • Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (1996 )
  • Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Gold ( 1998)
  • Political cartoonist (pseudonym " Ironimus " ) ( 1998)
  • Member of the Austrian Art Senate (1998)
  • Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts ( Berlin) ( 1998)
  • Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1998)
  • Nestroy -ring ( 1999)
  • Golden Commander's Cross of Honour for Services to the State of Lower Austria (2003)
  • In 2004 he was elected to the list of the 50 most important Austrian the last 50 years in a reader poll of the daily Kurier.
  • Golden Rathausmann the City of Vienna (2008)
  • Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class (2013 )
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