Designer · Austria · 1899–1959
Oswald Haerdtl
Oswald Haerdtl (1899–1959) – Austrian architect from Vienna, Josef Hoffmann’s assistant, designer of Café Prückel and Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1899–1959
- Country
- Austria
- Manufacturers
- Tatra Nábytok, TON
Oswald Haerdtl was born in Vienna in 1899 and died there in 1959. He studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule under Strnad and, from around 1922 to 1930, was Josef Hoffmann’s assistant. From 1935, he was a professor of architecture. He designed the Austrian pavilions at the world exhibitions in Brussels (1935) and Paris (1937).
His post-war projects included the reconstruction of the Federal Chancellery (1948), Café Prückel (1955) and Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien (1954–1959). The monograph “Oswald Haerdtl”, published by Architektur Zentrum Wien (2000), is devoted to the architect’s work. Attributions of mass-produced furniture to him are not confirmed by institutional sources.
