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Storck, Josef Ritter von (22.04.1830 - 27.03.1902) |
Austrian architect, designer and artisan in Vienna. Storck was the son of a clockmaker and from 1847 a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he worked for Eduard van der Nüll. Storck was involved in the decorative interior design of the large Ringstrasse buildings and designed numerous furnishing programmes, including for the Altlerchenfeld Church, Arsenal and Vienna Court Opera. From 1868 he was co-founder and first director of the School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (“Kunstgewerbeschule”) and professor of architecture. In 1873, together with Ferdinand Laufberger, he was in charge of furnishing the Vienna World Exhibition. From 1891 he was also in charge of the studio for the production of state banknotes. Storck, together with Ferdinand Laufberger, designed, among other things, the 100-gulden note of 1880. Lit.: K. Pokorny-Nagel, Storck, Josef von, in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL) XIII (2010) p. 327; R. Eitelberger, Kunst und Künstler Wiens (1878); R. Eitelberger, Die Kunstbewegung in Oesterreich seit der Pariser Weltausstellung im Jahre 1867 (1878); U. Scholda, Theorie und Praxis im Wiener Kunstgewerbe des Historismus am Beispiel von Josef Ritter v. Storck, Phil. Diss. (1991). |
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Engraver (paper money)  |
GND |
https://d-nb.info/gnd/129339113 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/77390825 |
Wikipedia [de] |
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_von_Storck |
http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/1295.htm |
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Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34778314 |
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