Plischke, Ernst Anton#
b. Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), June 26, 1903, d. Vienna, May 23, 1992, architect. Studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts under O. Strnad and P. Behrens. Worked in the studios of P. Behrens, J. Frank (1927/28) and E. Kahn in New York (1929). His first major commission, the labour exchange (Arbeitsamt) in Liesing, Vienna (1930), was internationally acknowledged for its modernism. 1939 P. emigrated to New Zealand, became a community planner for the Housing Ministry and from 1948 worked free-lance (offices and industrial buildings, houses and churches). 1963 returned to Vienna and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. Basing his work on the "Viennese Tradition" (A. Loos, J. Frank) he developed more complex structures than "International Modernism". 1935 State Prize for Architecture.
Further works#
semi-detached house in the "Werkbundsieldung", Vienna, 13th district, 1930-1932; Gamerith house on Lake Attersee, 1933/1934; Frey house, Graz, 1970-1972. - Written works: Design and Living, 1947; Vom Menschlichen im neuen Bauen, 1969; Ein Leben mit Architektur, 1989.Literature#
E. A. P., exhibition catalogue, Akademie der bildenden Kuenste in Wien, 1983; Magistrat der Stadt Wien (ed.), Architektur in Wien, 1984; F. Achleitner, Oe. Architektur im 20. Jh., vol. III/1, 1990.