Oskar Marmorek

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Oskar Marmorek
Personal information
Name Oskar Marmorek
Nationality Austria-Hungarian
Birth date April 9, 1863(1863-04-09)
Birth place Pieskowa Skała, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death April 7, 1909 (aged 45)
Place of death Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Work
Significant buildings Nestroyhof, Vienna
Rüdigerhof, Vienna
Significant projects Venedig in Wien

Oskar Adolf Marmorek (* 9 April 1863 in Pieskowa Skała, Galicia (today Poland) - † 7. April 1909 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austria-Hungarian architect and Zionist.

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[edit] Architecture

[edit] Political activism

In 1895, Marmorek met the Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist who founded modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl. The publication of Herzl's book Der Judenstaat in 1896 and the first World Zionist Congress, organized together with Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau in 1897, formed a break in Marmorek's life. Oskar then decided to dedicate himself completely to the Zionism. In May 1901, the architect, acting as Secretary of the Actions Committee, traveled to Istanbul with Theodor Herzl and David Wolffsohn, Chairman of the Jewish Colonial Trust to meet the Sultan Abdul Hamid II [1]. For his utopian novel Altneuland ("Old New Land") considered as one of Zionism’s establishing texts, Herzl modeled the character of "Dr Steineck" on his friend and collaborator Oskar Marmorek.

After the death of his friend in 1904, Oskar Marmorek was appointed by the Greater Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization to act as Chairman until the election of David Wolffsohn as new President in 1905[2].

[edit] Major Works

Rüdigerhof
Rüdigerhof
  • Exhibition Alt-Wien, 1894
  • Venedig in Wien, 1895
  • Villa and Palais Egyedi, Budapest, 1896
  • Annex Sanatorium in Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory), 1897
  • Nestroyhof, Wien, 1898
  • Rüdigerhof, Wien, 1902
  • Windmühlgasse 32, Wien, 1902

[edit] References

  1. ^ American Jewish Committee (1903). American Jewish Year Book Vol. 4 (1902-1903), page 34. 
  2. ^ American Jewish Committee (1905). American Jewish Year Book Vol. 6 (1904-1905), page 34. 

[edit] Bibliography

  • Kristan, Markus (1996). Oskar Marmorek - Architekt und Zionist 1863-1909 (in German). Vienna: Bölhau. ISBN 3205984757. 

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Persondata
NAME Marmorek, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austria-Hungarian architect and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1863(1863-04-09)
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieskowa Skała, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1909-4-7
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna, Austria-Hungary
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