Joseph maria olbrich secession

Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders

Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December 1867 – 8 August 1908) was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.

Early life

Olbrich was born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia (modern day Opava, Czech Republic), the third child of Edmund and Aloisia Olbrich.

Vienna secession

Vienna secession

Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December – 8 August ) was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.

Vienna secession architecture

The City of Vienna provided the site on Wienzeile.

The building was designed by architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, a native of Lower Silesia, who had lived in Vienna since Building of the Secession.

He had two sisters, who died before he was born, and two younger brothers, John and Edmund. His father was a prosperous confectioner and wax manufacturer who also owned a brick works, where Olbrich's interest in the construction industry has its early origin.

Career

Olbrich studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Wiener Staatsgewerbeschule) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he won several prizes. These included the Prix de Rome, for which he traveled to Italy and North Africa.^[1] In 1893, he started working for Otto Wagner, the Austrian architect, and probably did the detailed