Karl Malte von Heinz (1904-1971) was an Austrian architect who designed a number of buildings in India.

Career

Heinz came to India as a refugee due to the crackdown on the Bahaus movement in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. After coming to India, he assisted Robert Tor Russel in designing the

Pataudi Palace The Pataudi Palace, also called Ibrahim Kothi, is a palace of the former ruling family Pataudi family in Pataudi town of Gurgaon district (now Gurugram district) in Haryana state of India. Passed from the last ruling nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan, t ...

in the 1930s.

Hyderabad

Heinz designed several mansions in Hyderabad, and is regarded as a pioneer of the

art deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style in the city.

Delhi

In the 1940s, he designed several buildings of the

Jamia Milia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia () is a central university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in ...

. After India's independence, Heinz designed the

High Commission of Pakistan, New Delhi The High Commission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in New Delhi is the diplomatic mission of Pakistan in India. Between 1972 and 1989, the mission was known as the ''Embassy of Pakistan in New Delhi'', as Pakistan was then temporarily a re ...

, as well as the embassies of Thailand and the Vatican.

Personal life

He married a Russian woman named Bella. The couple did not have any children.

List of works

* Mount Pleasant building in Hyderabad * Buildings of the

References

{{Reflist 20th-century architects 1904 births 1971 deaths