Martin S. Kermacy collection of materials documenting the Austrian Secession principally and the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, 18--?-19--.

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Martin S. Kermacy collection of materials documenting the Austrian Secession principally and the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, 18--?-19--.

Architectural drawings (prints), photographs, slides, maps, art and architectural books (transferred to the Architecture and Planning Library Special Collections) cover the core subjects of European architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the Austrian Secession and the German Jugendstil. The materials were collected by Professor Kermacy during his tenure as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Technische Hochschule Wien during 1955 and 1956. In addition, the collection includes 92 exhibition panels for "Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession. From Otto Wagner to Adolf Loos." Lastly, there are reports and drawings of University of Texas School of Architecture students of Kermacy, as well as drawings from Kermacy's professional practice.

<271> drawings, <118> maps, <1> lithograph, <232> photographic prints, <16,197> slides.

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Kermacy, Martin Stephen, 1915-2007

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Martin S. Kermacy was born April 6, 1915 in Kula, Hungary. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture in 1938 and Master of Architecture in 1939. He taught at at the University of Texas School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin from 1947 to 1983, retiring as Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Planning. He died in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2007. From the guide to the Martin S. Kermacy Collection of materials documenti...

University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture

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The School of Architecture was established within The University of Texas Engineering Department in 1910, when Dean T. U. Taylor of the Department of Engineering appointed Hugo F. Kuehne as the first faculty member of the School of Architecture. In 1920, the Department of Engineering became the College of Engineering, and the School of Architecture became the Department of Architecture within the College of Engineering. Architecture functioned as a "semiautonomous school" until it was granted fu...

Wiener Secession.

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