Oskar Strnad
Oskar Strnad ( born October 26, 1879 in Vienna, † September 3, 1935 in Bad Aussee [ Note 1 ] ) was an Austrian architect and stage designer of Jewish descent. Together with Josef Frank, he coined the so-called Vienna School of Architecture. He represented a modern concept of living for all people who designed and built houses, designed furniture, ceramics and watercolors created and endowed plays and films.
Life
Strnad graduated at the Technical University in Vienna with Max von Ferstel and Karl König studied architecture and graduated in 1904 with a thesis on the principle of decoration of the early Christian art from. He then worked with Friedrich Ohmann and the theater architects Fellner & Helmer. From 1906 it came to the regular cooperation with Oskar Wlach. 1913 Josef Frank was included in this study group.
From 1909 to 1935 Strnad worked as a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts; at first he taught General morphology, from 1914, he took over the management of its own architecture class. In the same year, 1914, was one of his masterpieces, the house for the writer Jakob Wassermann on Kaasgraben in Vienna Dobling.
From 1918 Strnad created designs for a " round theater " with the assistance of his pupil Margaret Lihotzky (later Margarete Schütte -Lihotzky ). Among his pupils were the later production designers and set designers Artur Berger and Harry Horner.
In the 1920s, Oskar Strnad counted together with Josef Frank to the pioneers of the New Viennese living.
From 1919 Strnad was the Viennese popular theater set designer, in 1923 he created the "Three Scenes Theater ," a three-part stage with Kreisauditorium. Later Strnad designed acclaimed stage sets for the Vienna State Opera, including for Wozzeck by Alban Berg and for the world premiere of Jonny spielt auf by Ernst Krenek. For Salzburg he created the equipment to Tristan and Don Giovanni. Strnad, who was also active as a landscape painter used to tuschen drafts of his decorations on a light-handed way in water colors.
He was also an interior designer for equipment seminal masterpieces of the Viennese film like Masquerade (1934 ) and episode (1935 ).
Strnad has the limits that contributed the stage by Alfred Roller, busted in the sense of the space stage thought, he expanded the stage image for stage space. Condition formed a tremendous knowledge of historical foundations, the material and the technique of the stage. Strnad was a teacher at Max Reinhardt Seminar in private Schönbrunn ( later to become Max Reinhardt Seminar ) and was the teacher of Robert Obsieger and Otto Niedermoser and Gustav Manker.
Among the students Oskar Strnad, among other things included the sculptor Jacob Loew.
On September 3, 1935 died Oskar Strnad, former longtime president of the Austrian Werkbund, in Bad Aussee [note 1] of heart failure. He was born on September 6, 1935 buried at Vienna's central cemetery in a dedicated by the Jewish Community of honor grave (Gate 1, Group 6, Series 0, No. 5).
Works
Vienna: Semi-detached house in the Werkbundsiedlung Vienna, 1932; People's residence in Vienna 15, Holochergasse, 1932 - Many houses in Vienna and Lower Austria, courtyard design. ; Soldiers' graves and war memorials, sets and costumes (77 designs in the possession of the Austrian Theatre Museum in Vienna), chairs and armchairs, glasses.
The most popular stage work Strnad was Stefan Kamares The young Baron Neuhaus at the Viennese popular theater (1934 ), where he therein lay his pride and joy, that the ornaments of the doors and furnaces of Schönbrunn and the embroidery of old tuxedos him was the model, and that he had actually done nothing else than to educate the theater work to fidelity of these forms (Joseph Gregor ).
Awards
- City of Vienna Prize for Architecture, 1947