| Carl Auböck , 1900 -1957
The designer and painter Carl Auböck is one of the most extraordinary personalities of Austrian modernism.
After versatile accomplishments (1914-17 apprenticeship to a bronze and chisel worker in his parents workshop, 1917-19 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1919-21 years at the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student of Johannes Itten) he takes over the workshop of his father 1926.
While at that time in the workshop he still pursues the traditional productionline for his customers in Vienna and the USA (the ,Wiener Bronzen' and Art Deco), his paintings soon accomplish to a high artistic range and he creates masterpieces of Austrian modernism.
With the beginning of the fourties he developes his very particular style for handcrafted accessories and high class homerequisites that - after the war - make him famous on an international standard. His design career reaches the top at the Triennale di Milano 1954, where he receives four goldmedals for his work. Up to now many of his objects are manufactured at the Carl Auböck
workshop and they still build the heart of the Carl Auböck collection. At the end of the fourties he begins the collaboration with his son.
| Carl Auböck , 1924 -1993
After his study of architecture in Austria and the USA, Carl Auböck returns to Vienna again. In his works and designs for the workshop, the idea of Industrial Design gains more and more importance, allthough this term has nearly no relevance in Vienna at that time.
Friendships with Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra and many others, give the background for his international design career in the sixties and seventies. International distinctions for design objects follow: several compasso d'oros of the ,Triennale di Milano', international state honours a.s.f.
With his professorship at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna since 1977 and his international engagement for architecture, design, industrial design and science, he designs many objects for the Carl Auböck collection.
Together with his wife Justine Auböck, who takes over the management of the workshop after the death of Carl Auböck 1957, he developes the production of the Carl Auböck workshop to an international range. In this years Auböck Design can be bought at Tiffany, Saks 5th avenue and Bloomingdales in New York as well as at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Christofle in Paris, The Ginza in Tokyo
or at Harrods in London. The Auböck workshop also creates and produces design collections for brands like Hermès and Pierre Cardin or nella longari in Milan. In the early seventies he starts the collaboration with the new generation. |