Norbert Troller

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Norbert Troller
Born1896
Austria-Hungarian Empire
Died1984
New York City, U.S.
OccupationArchitect

Norbert Troller (1896–1984) was a Czech and American

Theresienstadt concentration camp
.

Biography

Norbert Troller was born in

draftsman and an architect
till he had established his own practice. His projects at that time included single family residences, multifamily residential buildings, industrial buildings, banks, warehouses, department stores, shops and the interiors. His architectural practice ended abruptly with the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1938.

As a

communist coup, he applied for an American visa in 1945, and emigrated
to the US as soon as the coup happened in 1948.

For the next 10 years, Norbert Troller designed Jewish Community Centers for the US, Canada and Colombia, in the Building Bureau of the National Jewish Welfare Board in New York. He produced about 80 designs of those projects.[2] The local architects had realized many of them. Simultaneously, he had developed and implemented planning and construction design standards for the Jewish Community Centers’ buildings. In 1958 he opened his own practice, and was involved in the design of residential houses, interiors of offices, showrooms, retail shops and restaurants in New York City and the metropolitan area.

Many times during his life, Norbert Troller successfully participated in architectural competitions: in Brno, where he held two personal exhibitions in the Art Center, and in America, where he won the First prize and four Third prizes in the Chicago Herald Tribune Better Rooms Competitions, 1949 [3]–1950. In 1981 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Yeshiva University of New York: 300 Theresienstadt drawings. He also taught in the Peoples University in Brno and in a high school in New York City. He died in 1984.

In his memoirs he presented a detailed account of the Nazi]atrocities in the Jewish concentration camps. Seven years after his death one of his memoirs was published in the US.[4]

Selected projects

from 1922
  • Single-family residences' interiors. Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1922 – 1939, 1948–1949
  • Interior furnishing: lamps, torchers, chandeliers, furniture, and tableware. Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1922–1939
  • E. Witman house. Brno, Czechoslovakia
  • Dr. Kollman house. Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1947–1949
  • Dr. J. Lorek Hunting Lodge. Čeladná, Silesia, 1940
  • Restaurant. Moravia, 1940–1941
  • Department store. Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1947–1949
  • Dr. Miskevics house. Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1947–1949
  • Apartments' interiors. New York City , 1950
  • Single-family residences in
    Bridgeport, Connecticut
    , 1953
  • Nursery with school, Manhattan, New York, 1954
  • Vacation house on the Lake Oscawana, New York, 1961
  • Jewish Community Centers:
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958

References

  1. ^ Leo Baeck Institute Archives, R. Joseph collection
  2. ^ Leo Baeck Institute Archives, R. Joseph collection
  3. ^ Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 1, 1949, Part 1, p. 6
  4. ISBN 978-0-8078-1965-4

Publications

Literature

  • Magazine Interior Design. May, 1953, pp. 74 – 79
  • Newspaper Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 1, 1949, Part 1, page 6

External links
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