Gustav Peichl
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Gustav Peichl (18 March 1928 – 17 November 2019)<ref name=ORFObit>Template:Cite news</ref> was an Austrian architect and caricaturist.
Life
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna until 1953 and worked in the office of Roland Rainer. To pay for architectural school, he drew caricatures under a pseudonym to protect his identity from the Red Army, which occupied Austria at the time. He first used the name Pei initially and later by the name under which he was best known, Ironimus. He later drew cartoons for major newspapers such as Kurier, Express, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Presse.<ref name=ORFObit/>
He opened his own architectural firm in 1955. Peichl built the EFA Radio Satellite Station in Aflenz Austria. He was a member of the international jury that chose Carlos Ott as the architect for the in Opéra Bastille in Paris, in 1983.
He died 17 November 2019 at his home in Grinzing, Vienna, Austria.<ref name=ORFObit/>
Main works
- 1969–82 ORF regional studios, in Dornbirn, Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg
- 1985–92 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
- 1987–91 Extension building to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
- 1997–99 with Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber: Millennium Tower, Vienna
- 2000–01 Caricature Museum, Krems
References
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- Pages with broken file links
- 1928 births
- 2019 deaths
- 20th-century Austrian architects
- Austrian caricaturists
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
- Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Süddeutsche Zeitung people