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Haekel, Josef - Hagenauer, Carl (7/25)
Haerdtl, Heinrich Haeusserman, Ernst

Haerdtl, Oswald


Haerdtl, Oswald, b. Vienna, May 17, 1899, d. Vienna, Sept. 9, 1959, architect and university professor. 1919-1921 studied at the School for Arts and Crafts in Vienna under O. Strnad, 1922-1930 assistant to J. Hoffmann, 1935-1959 head of a special course for architecture students. H.'s teaching and construction projects and his international connections (esp. Italy and France) helped the continuity of the classic Viennese Modern style during the post-war reconstruction-period. His exhibits (especially the Austrian pavilions at the world fairs in Brussels in 1935 and Paris in 1937) are marked by light, playfully elegant shapes.


Works: Vienna: Confiserie Altmann & Kühne, 1932 (with J. Hoffmann); Federal Chancellery (reconstruction after war damages), 1948; office buildings Mahlerstraße 6, 1949; Espresso Arabia, 1950; office building Singerstraße/Kärntnerstraße, 1953; Volksgarten-Tanzcafé, 1954-1958; Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 1954-1959; Café Prückel, 1955. - Haus Mierka, 1957 (Salzburg).

Literature: Hochschule f. angew. Kunst (publ.), O. H., Vienna 1978; A. Stiller, O. H. Architekt und Designer, 1899-1959, 2000.


 
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