Arnold Karplus
Arnold Karplus (June 24, 1877 – October 17, 1943) was a Jewish-Austrian architect and the father of Ruth Rogers-Altmann.[1][2][3]
Life
Arnold Karplus was born in
In 1911 Karplus was sworn in as Imperial Royal court expert and appraiser and became construction director of a building construction company in Vienna, a position he held until the liquidation of the company in 1927. In the First World War Karplus was first commissioned as a lieutenant and then as a captain, involved in the establishment of military utility buildings.[5]
In 1927, Arnold Karplus established his independent architectural studio. One of his better known works was the Ditteshof communal apartment complex built in 1928/29 in Vienna's 19th district. It consisted of 279 apartments around a landscaped courtyard and included shops, a nursery, a bathhouse and a community hall. From 1934 to 1938 his son Gerhard Karplus joined the studio.
With the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, Arnold and Else Karplus moved to New York in 1939, following their son Gerhard and their daughter Ruth.[6] He died in Caracas, Venezuela.
References
- ^ "Architekturzentrum Wien". www.architektenlexikon.at.
- ^ "Auf der Suche nach den Spuren des Achiteckten Arnold Karplus" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ "Arnold Karplus: Gebaut in Wien — ERINNERN: NATIONALSOZIALISMUS UND HOLOCAUST". www.erinnern.at.
- OCLC 637105675– via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "Arnold Karplus (1877 - 1968)". Structurae.
- ^ History, Center for Jewish. "CJH Digital Collections". access.cjh.org.
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