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Rudolf Schwarz Architect of a different modernism Location: Architekturzentrum Wien Exhibition: 12 December 1998 - 01 February 1999 Opening Hours: Daily 10 am - 7 pm Opening: Friday 11 December 1998, 7pm Tickets: 50.- / 25.- ATS reduced 1897 Rudolf Schwarz is born may15 in Strassburg / Alsace. 1914 - 1918 Studies architecture at the Royal Technical University of Berlin. 1919 Studies Roman Catholic theology, history, philosophy at the University of Bonn. 1919 - 1923 Training as "Regierungsbaumeister" (master builder of the government). 1924 - 1924 Assistant and master pupil under Hans Poelzig in the master studio of the Academy of Fine Arts, Potsdam. 1925 - 1927 Teacher at the Technical Educational Establishments (Baugewerk-and Kunstgewerbeschule) Offenbach. 1927 - 1934 Director of the Aachen Handwerker and Kunstgewerbeschule . 1929 - 1930 Fronleichnamskirche in Aachen, a key building of modern sacral buildings. 1931 - 1934 Committee member of the German Werkbund. 1934 Due to the "Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums" (law for the re-establishment of civil service with tenure) Schwarz was retired, the Kunstgewerbeschule in Aachen was closed. 1934 - 1944 Free-lance architect first in Offenbach, since 1937 in Frankfurt a.M.; apartment buildings, conversions of churches. 1941 - 1944 Local planner and regional planner in "Gau Westmark ", leader of the planning authorities in Diedenhofen (Thionville) and Lorraine. 1946 - 1961 Free-lance architect in Frankfurt a. M. and Cologne, numerous churches and secular buildings. 1946 - 1952 General planner of the City of Cologne. 1956 - 1963 Schwarz is commissioned twice in Austria to build the churches St.Theresia in Linz and St.Florian in Vienna. The new building of St.Theresia replaced a church destroyed during the war and situated on another site. The new building of St.Theresia replaced a church destroyed during the war and situated on another site. Following an invitation by Monsignore Otto Mauer to the Galerie nächst St.Stephan (gallery) Schwarz gives a lecture on church architecture. Within the same year he participates in the competition for the St.Florian parish church in Vienna-Margareten. The baroque church became too small and has been removed for traffic reasons. It has been replaced by a new church, built by Schwarz on a different site offering space for two thousand believers. 1953 - 1961 Professor for urban planning and church architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. 1961 Rudolf Schwarz dies on April 3, 1961 due to a heart attack in Cologne. |
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