Richard Gach

Richard Gach (right) with his father-in-law Richard Henke hiking in Salzburg (1957/58)

Richard Gach (* October 31 1930 in Itzling (then municipality Gnigl-Itzling, today district of Salzburg); † December 25 1991 in Horn) was an Austrian architect, drawer and watercolorist.[1] He mainly planned schools for the city of Vienna and was involved in the construction of some residential buildings.[2]

Biography

Private

Richard Gach married Johanna Henke, daughter of the chemist Richard Henke. One of their daughters, Martina Maria, married the artist Helmuth Gräff, and became the mother of the artist Matthias Laurenz Gräff. Gach was a member in the compound Schlaraffia under the religious name "Knight of Kamp".

Professional

Richard Gach (right) and Gustav Peichl in Gars am Kamp (1990)

Richard Gach completed the Salzburg HTL for Building Construction and in 1949 he studied architecture at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the class of Lois Welzenbacher. At the request of the architect Roland Rainer, as a student he built the scale model for the construction of the Wiener Stadthalle.[3][4] During his study he became friends with architects such Gustav Peichl, Friedrich Achleitner, Wilhelm Holzbauer, and Hans Puchhammer. He graduated in 1955 Mag. Arch. and began work in the architecture office of Wilhelm Hubatsch, with whom he later went on to win several architectural competitions.[5]

After becoming an independent architect in 1958, Gach actively contributed to the Viennese housing and school construction.[2] The Gach-designed Gangschule with 24 classes and two high schools comes from the haze circle of Hubatsch's school concepts.[6] Representing this are the residential complex Edergasse 1-3 in Vienna 21 and the two high schools Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse and Amerling-Gymnasium. In 1970, the former Esterhazypalais (Palais Kaunitz) was demolished for the construction of Amerling Gymnasium. Built in 1970-1972, the new building with 24 classrooms and two sports halls corresponds to the construction of secondary schools of common typology of the late sixties, without any architectural respect for the environment.[7]

It was also important to him to build contemporary architecture, also in the context of church building. With this access, he planned together with Robert Posch the church building of Rigau at Abtenau (Salzburg) in 1956.[8] The realization failed because of the Pinzgau district authority. The Wiener Wochenpresse headlined that the planning ended up being "customary" (i.e. traditional).[9]

Richard Gach was also active in Lower Austria, as reflected in numerous construction projects such as the Aufbahrungshalle in Orth an der Donau, the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Amstetten (high school), the Sparkasse Mistelbach and the Hauptschule Gars am Kamp.[10] Gach lived until his death in his adopted home Gars am Kamp. In 2011, a portion of his artistic estate, consisting of architectural drawings and watercolors, was auctioned there.[11]

Construction contracts (selection)

Gymnasium Wien Geblergasse (highschool)
The listed concrete relief (Hauszeichen, Drei Betonreliefs) in Josefstädter Straße 93-97 in Wien-Josefstadt
  • 1958: Housing estate Nußberggasse 9 / Bockkellergasse, Vienna 19 (with Wilhelm Hubatsch)
  • 1960: Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Amstetten (highschool) (with Wilhelm Hubatsch, Competition 1st Prize[5]
  • 1962-1964: Residential building Edergasse 1-3, Vienna 21
  • 1963: Josefstädter Straße 93-97, Vienna 8 (with Ernst Schuster)
  • 1964: elementary school Pfeilgasse and new middle school Pfeilgasse. Pfeilgasse 42b / Stolzenthalergasse 19, Vienna 8 (with Ernst Schuster)
  • 1964-1966: Sparkasse Mistelbach
  • 1964-1968: Hauptschule Gars am Kamp
  • 1968: Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse (highschool), Vienna 17
  • 1960 / 70s: Aufbahrungshalle in Orth on the Danube
  • 1970-1972: Amerling-Gymnasium (highschool), Vienna 6
  • 1973-1977: Residence Leopold-Figl-Gasse 503/504 and 523/524, Gars am Kamp

Non-realistic objects (selection)

  • 1956: church building of Rigau near Abtenau (Pongau) (with [Robert Posch])
  • 1956: Bundesrealgymnasium Horn (highschool) (with Wilhelm Hubatsch, competition, 2nd prize[5]
  • 1957: Administration Building Austrian Drau Power Plants, Klagenfurt (with Wilhelm Hubatsch, Competition, 1st Prize[5])
  • 1958: Town Planning Competition, Vienna 10, Eisenstadtplatz (with Wilhelm Hubatsch, Competition, 2nd Prize[5])

References

  1. ↑ [Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (ref. Ed.): Garser stories. Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape (2014). Chapter 11: Architecture and Art in Gars , by Anton Ehrenberger, p. 381]
  2. 1 2 "Wiener Wohnen - Gemeindewohnungen". wiener-wohnen.at.
  3. ↑ "Hall of Fame – Gebt uns das Wiener Stadthallenturnier zurück! » abseits.at". abseits.at.
  4. ↑ This circumstance was due to Gach's skill in building architectural models
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 netz, nextroom - architektur im. "Architekturzentrum Wien". www.architektenlexikon.at.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Achleitner, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria): Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century: A Guide in Three Volumes, Volume 3, Part 2, p. 186
  7. ↑ "Amerling-Gymnasium – Wien Geschichte Wiki". www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at.
  8. ↑ Norbert Mayr: Stadtbühne und Talschluss: Baukultur in Stadt und Land Salzburg , p 279 (2006).
  9. ↑ -1 / PDF / mayr.pdf Norbert Mayr and Erich Erker: Replication and moderate modernity. On the reconstruction of the Salzburg Cathedral after 1945", p. 17 (2009)
  10. ↑ "Flaggschiff NMS Gars".
  11. ↑ "waldviertelnews -". waldviertelnews.
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