August Krumholz (1845,

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– after June, 1914) was an Austrian architect.

Biography

His father, also named August, was a construction manager from Marburg. He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, from 1864 to 1869, first with

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, then Friedrich von Schmidt. In 1866 and 1869, he was awarded the Academy's

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for excellence. During the latter year, he also participated in a major exhibition in Munich. He distinguished himself primarily as a school architect. A realschule in Olmütz (the Komenium), built from 1870 to 1874, was his first fully independent design. Through Schmidt's mediation, and support from the educator, Erasmus Schwab (1831-1917), he created a

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for a country school building that was displayed at the

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. In 1876, he won a competition to establish a community school in

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. In addition to schools, he built the in Liezen, for the industrialist, Nikolaus Dumba (demolished 1960), and the City Museum in Aussig. Despite his successes, he gradually withdrew from his profession during the 1880s and became a land owner, joining the Bauernvereins (Farmers' Association) in his father's hometown and introducing

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ideas, derived from the works of

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. After 1893, he was based in Budapest, where he owned a construction company that provided supplies for the Austro-Hungarian Army. He later moved the company to Vienna, where it went bankrupt in 1906. Two years after that, he opened another architectural studio. Within a few weeks, the '' Kronen Zeitung'', Austria's largest newspaper, reported that he and his mistress had been arrested in Paris on charges of espionage. According to them, he had been in correspondence with Henri Julliot, a designer for the French firm of

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, had become interested in their airship, the '' Patrie'', and was in possession of material relating to its construction. The charges were apparently dismissed, following Julliot's intervention, but he was expelled from France. He largely disappeared after that point. The last time he was mentioned in the press was on June 14, 1914.''Der Volksfreund''
@ the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek His date and place of death are unknown.

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August Krumholz
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