!!!Wlach, Oskar

b. Vienna, April 18, 1881, d. New York (USA), Aug. 15, 1963, 
architect and designer. Collaborated from 1908 with O.  Strnad and, 
from 1910 to 1938, with J.  Frank; with the latter, Wlach founded the 
home furnishing store "Haus & Garten" in 1925, which soon achieved 
considerable renown in Europe owing to its Viennese arts and crafts 
articles. In 1938 the company was expropriated as Jewish property, and 
Wlach fled via Switzerland and Britain to the USA, where he tried 
unsuccessfully to continue his professional career.

!Works
Vienna: Villas and housing developments, duplex house in the in 
Werkbund Housing Estate; Hoffingergasse housing development (with J. 
Frank and E. Faber), 1921; council houses Gellertgasse, 1925-27.


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