Josef "Beppo" Mauhart (14 September 1933 – 7 May 2017) was an Austrian business executive. During his career, he worked as a newspaper executive and chief executive officer of Austria Tabak. He was also the longest serving president of the Austrian Football Association .
15-718: The Künstlerhaus in Vienna's 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz. The building was erected between 1865 and 1868 and has served as an exhibition space and an event venue ever since. In 2015, shares were split between two proprietors, with the Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung as
30-624: A guesthouse, Leopold Ernst had a Neo-Gothic festival hall built (at a great loss) in 1847. The hall became the meeting place of the Society of Young Artists and Academics, which was founded in 1851 and later renamed the Albrecht Dürer Society. In 1861 it merged with another artists' society, Eintracht, to form a new association representing Viennese painters, sculptors and architects: the Vienna Artists' Society. In 1868
45-537: A theatre was established in the eastern wing in 1974, which was last operated by the brut until 2017. Between autumn 2016 and spring 2020, the Künstlerhaus faced a major renovation. During the reconstruction the former Altmann'sche Textilfabrik in Vienna-Margareten (Stolberggasse 26) served as its temporary accommodation. The newly refurbished Künstlerhaus was reopened on 6 March 2020. Today,
60-503: The 20th century, real estate observers speculated that the Society was under pressure to demolish the building in favor of something larger, as it is unusually low-rise for the Ringstraße area, or to rebuild it. For example, the "Kaym-Hetmanek Plan" in the early 1930s proposed to replace the historic pavilion with eight-storey apartment blocks. The recommendations of an architectural planning competition for Karlsplatz in 1946 showed that
75-474: The Künstlerhaus Vereinigung presents its exhibitions on the upper-floor of the building, while the Albertina Modern, which first opened its doors on 27 May 2020, shows/displays exhibitions on the ground- and underground-floor. Thus, the Künstlerhaus is now home to two independent cultural institutions. The society has its roots in the suburb of Laimgrube, now part of Mariahilf . Here, on the site of
90-483: The Künstlerhaus and for other museums and institutions. The architect of the building was August Weber (1836–1903). Several types of Austrian stone were used, supplied by the Viennese firm Anton Wasserburger. Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the keystone . Opened on 1 September 1868 as one of the earliest Ringstraße buildings, it was designed in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa, after Jacopo Sansovino . At
105-744: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 217671810 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:40:06 GMT Beppo Mauhart Mauhart received his Matura at the Wilhering College in Wilhering . After his studies, he was editor of the newspaper of the Freier Wirtschaftsverband as of 1963. In 1970, he worked as
120-522: The city of Vienna considered the Künstlerhaus, as well as the Office of Transport building, as expendable. In 1956–57 the Society modernised the Stiftersaal room. In 1966, Karl Schwanzer proposed a plan to build large offices for IBM on the site of the Künstlerhaus, which met with widespread objections among residents and the media. The previous year, protests had followed the decision to tear down
135-479: The majority shareholder and the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung , Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, the oldest existing artists' association in Austria, as the minority shareholder. In 1949 a cinema moved into the western wing of the building. As of 2013, this cinema is operated as Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus and is one of the screening venues for the annual Viennale film festival . Additionally,
150-560: The old Florianikirche. The Society preserved the Künstlerhaus. In the 21st century, new plans have been discussed to expand and rebuild the Künstlerhaus, so as to integrate it more closely into the "museum cluster" on Karlsplatz. For example, in July 2010 Beppo Mauhart proposed the addition of two new buildings to this site. 48°12′04″N 16°22′19″E / 48.201°N 16.372°E / 48.201; 16.372 Innere Stadt Too Many Requests If you report this error to
165-533: The secretary for Hannes Androsch at the Ministry of Finance . He was appointed to the supervisory board of Austria Tabak in 1972 and became deputy chairman there in 1976. In 1977, Austria Tabak became a sponsor of the FK Austria Wien football club. The club changed its name to Austria Memphis – a cigarette brand. From 1988 to 1995, Mauhart was CEO of Austria Tabak . From 1984 to 2002, Mauhart
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#1732779606167180-558: The society moved into its current premises. In 1897 a number of modern artists seceded from the Künstlerhaus and founded the Vienna Secession . In 1972 the society opened its membership to practitioners of applied art , and in 1976 it was renamed the "Austrian Artists' Society, Künstlerhaus". Since 1983 the Society has included filmmakers and audio-visual artists among its members. Its limited company ( Künstlerhaus-Ges. m. b. H. ), founded in 1985, organises exhibitions both for
195-458: The time, it stood next to the banks of the Wien River , which still flowed openly in the city. The building was significantly expanded as early as 1882 with a pair of side wings. These were later used to house a cinema (from 1949) and a theatre (from 1974). Also in 1882, the Society held the "First International Art Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus". The inner garden was roofed over in 1888. In
210-470: Was founded to support the Vienna Künstlerhaus in the collection of sponsorship money in order to renovate the building. In 2011 and 2012 the legendary Künstlerhaus-Gschnas was held once again, this time as a charity event. Mauhart was vice president of the association Bildungsinitiative für die Zukunft (English: educational initiative for the future). The association was responsible for
225-595: Was president of the Austrian Football Association . He had the longest tenure in the history of the association. Under the leadership of Mauhart, the Wirtschaftsinititative Neues Künstlerhaus (English: Economic Initiative New Artist House), WINK, was established in 2005, together with the association of visual artists in Austria and on the initiative of its then-President Manfred Nehrer. The association
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