Paul Engelmann (; 14 June 1891 – 5 February 1965) was an Israeli

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

of Czech-Austrian descent. He worked in

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and in

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and is now known for his friendship with the philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Witt ...

between 1916 and 1928, and for being Wittgenstein's partner in the design and building of the Stonborough House in Vienna.Leitner, Bernhard
The Wittgenstein House
Princeton Architectural Press (2001) His ''Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein With a Memoir'' was translated by L. Furtmüller and published in 1967 by Basil Blackwell.The memoir is reprinted in F. A. Flowers III and Ian Ground, eds., ''Portraits of Wittgenstein'', ch. 20 (2015)

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and ''Portraits of Wittgenstein: Abridged Edition'', ch. 13 (2018). Bloomsbury Academic.

Education

Engelmann was born at

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in 1891, and studied with the

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

architect

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known c ...

in Vienna. He was supposedly Loos's favourite pupil. He was private secretary to Karl Kraus.

Career

After the end of

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, Engelmann maintained an active career as an architect in Europe and designed private houses in various cities. His work followed Loos' design principles, examples including the Stonborough House, in Vienna (1926–1928), the Vladimir Müller residence in Olomouc (1926–1928) and the Yedlin residence on Mount Carmel, Haifa (1936).

Stonborough House

In November 1925, Wittgenstein's sister

Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein Margaret "Gretl" Stonborough-Wittgenstein (19 September 1882 – 27 September 1958) was a sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein and a member of the wealthy Viennese Wittgenstein family. She was the subject ...

commissioned Engelmann, to design and build a large town house in Vienna in the Kundmanngasse. Wittgenstein showed a great interest in the project and in Engelmann's plans. He convinced Engelmann that he could realise his sister's intentions much better and was eventually asked to be the architect of the house.Jeffries, Stuart
"A dwelling for the gods"
''The Guardian'', 5 January 2002.

After Vienna

Engelmann emigrated to the

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in 1934. He later settled in

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, Israel, where he died on 5 February 1965. He dedicated less time to his architectural work, instead focusing on writing about his experiences with Loos, Kraus and Wittgenstein, but in 1947 he designed the interiors of the Jordanian Parliament and the throne hall of King Abdulla in Amman, Jordan.

References

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