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Karl Langer (architect)

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69: 26: 117:, his employer, refused to release him invoking wartime manpower regulations. He remained in the service of the Queensland Railways until 1946 when he left to establish his architectural and planning practice in Brisbane. He worked throughout Australia and was the initiator of many influential urban design ideas such as the site for the 112:
in 1944 resulted in a Parliamentary Enquiry. The primary cause for complaint was the appointment of an "alien refugee" over a returned soldier. The outcome of this enquiry found that Karl Langer was an individual whose talent and experience clearly distinguished him as the most suitable applicant. He
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at the Viennese Academy graduating in 1926. During this time Karl worked in the office of Josef Frank, who was to become well known in Swedish modernism, and later in the office of Schmidt and Aichinger. In 1928 he was appointed the architect in charge of Behrens Vienna office, where he designed and
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in July so that Karl could commence work for architects Cook and Kerrison. From the time of their arrival until their deaths the Langers dedicated themselves to a great variety of civic and professional activities. Their combined efforts greatly influenced the development of the arts and design in
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in design, town planning and landscape architecture. Research carried out when he first arrived in Brisbane pioneered the field of climatic design and resulted in the 1944 publication of an influential booklet called "Subtropical Housing". He was instrumental in establishing, and was the first
80:. They graduated the following year on the same night, with Doctorates of Philosophy in Art History. In 1938 with the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich, Gertrude, who was Jewish, and Karl left Vienna and traveled via Athens to Australia. 68: 202: 65:, graduating as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1933 with a thesis entitled "Origins and Development of Concrete Construction". In 1935 Karl established his own practice in Vienna. 1220: 741: 759: 716: 56:
in 1903, where he lived until emigrating to Australia in 1939 with his wife Gertrude. Karl studied architecture in Vienna, most notably in the Master Class run by
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Karl became well known throughout Australia shortly after his arrival when his appointment to the position of Assistant Town Planner with the
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supervised important works such as the tobacco factory in Linz, Austria. At this time he also commenced studies in Art History at the
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and worked in the regional centres of Queensland as an architect, town planner and landscape architect, producing these works:
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LIMITS: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand,
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Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand 36, Distance Looks Back,
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The 'Essentials' of The Sub-Tropical House: An Exegesis of the 'Modernistic' Town Planning Principals'
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edited by Victoria Jackson Wyatt, Andrew Leach and Lee Stickells (Sydney: SAHANZ, 2020), 350-61.
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and the Vacation Schools of Creative Art in which they fulfilled key roles over many years.
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in 2014. State Library of Queensland also holds a large number of his architectural plans.
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Karl Langer's work was featured in the Hot Modernism exhibition at the
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid - UQFL158 Karl Langer Collection
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Karl Langer Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
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From Austria to Australia: Three Lutheran Churches by Karl Langer
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holds 89 boxes and around 1800 of Langer's architectural plans.
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ed. H. Edquis and H. Frichot (Melbourne: SAHANZ, 2004), 346–352
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Dr. Gertrude Langer inspecting a local art show, Brisbane, 1940
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This article is about the architect. For the anatomist, see
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Queensland, especially through such organisations as the
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Karl Langer died in 1969. His funeral was held in the
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was still prevented from taking up the position, as
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Index

Karl Langer

Queensland
Queensland Heritage Register
Vienna
Peter Behrens,
University of Vienna

Gertrude Froeschel
Sydney
Brisbane
Queensland Art Gallery
Australian Council for the Arts
Brisbane City Council
Queensland Railways
Sydney Opera House
Queen Street
University of Queensland
Queensland Institute of Technology
Australian Planning Institute
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Royal Australian Institute of Architects
Chapel of St Peter's Lutheran College
Indooroopilly
Mount Thompson Crematorium
State Library of Queensland
Fryer Library
Main Roads Building
Spring Hill
St Peter's Lutheran College Chapel

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