{"id":18083,"date":"2024-10-24T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=18083"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:26:26","slug":"the-first-significant-achievements-two-villas-for-the-auer-family","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/en\/exhibition\/arhitekt-viktor-kovacic-otac-hrvatske-moderne-arhitekture\/the-first-significant-achievements-two-villas-for-the-auer-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The first significant achievements – Two villas for the Auer family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Eisner residential corner building on the corner of King Tomislav Square 11 and Branimirova Street is Kova\u010di\u0107’s first significant work, postcard, early 20th century<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the very beginning of his architectural career, Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107 was first met by his patron architect Kunno Weidmann. In the spring of 1900, he accepted him as an associate in his studio. It was at the time of his collaboration with Weidmann that Kova\u010di\u0107’s first significant work was created in Zagreb, Milan Eisner’s house at King Tomislav Square 11. It is a typical, somewhat restrained Zagreb building from the beginning of the 20th century. Only a few details on that two-story multi-apartment building, such as the corner elevation with a semicircular window finish, foreshadow Kova\u010di\u0107’s future work. In a similar spirit, Kova\u010di\u0107 completed several more buildings by 1905.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, study of an unknown villa, 1901, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Between 1902 and 1905, he collaborated with several well-known Zagreb construction enterprises – the brothers Carnelutti and Pilar & Mally & Bauda. At that time, his very creative collaboration with the architect Josip Markovi\u0107 came to the fore. In 1902, Kova\u010di\u0107 designed with him the residential building of Dr. Oskar Kornitzer at 22 Gunduli\u0107eva Street for the architectural studio of Gjura Carnelutti, and in 1903 the remodeling of the ground floor and extension of Dr. Eugen Winkler’s residential house at 14 Preradovi\u0107eva Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Villa of Ferdinand and Amalija Auer, Vladimir Nazor Street, 10\/1, 1903 – 1904<\/strong><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of Villa Auer in Nazorova Street 10\/1 before later reconstruction and adaptations, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In the opus of Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, achievements for the Auer family are of crucial importance for the rise of his career. In the first place, Kova\u010di\u0107 finds for the first time a quality investor who is ready not only to pay for his work, but also to accept his thoughts on architecture. It is with this villa that Kova\u010di\u0107 takes the first significant step, which starts to move away from the tradition of Zagreb’s historicism, leaning towards the new currents that came to him from Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Villa Auer, Vladimir Nazor Street 10\/1, ground plan, 1903, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A harmonious one-story house with a basement was built on the slope between Rokova Pavilion and Nazorova Street for Ferdinand and Amalija Auer. Kova\u010di\u0107 worked on the executive plans for the villa during September and October 1903, and it was built in 1904. With this villa, Kova\u010di\u0107 made the first significant step by which he began to move away from the tradition of Zagreb’s historicism, leaning towards the new European currents that came to him from Vienna. The villa was designed in a completely new spirit. The change is most obvious in the floor plan, that is, in the internal organization of the space, which is extremely rational and functional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Vila Auer, Vladimir Nazor Street 10\/1, floor plans, 1903, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Study sketches of an unrealized variant of Villa Auer. Kova\u010di\u0107 later designed a similar articulation of the facade with a prominent gazebo for the unfinished villa of industrialist Oskar Fr\u00f6hlich in Hercegova\u010dka Street, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Villa of Robert Auera<\/strong>, Rokova Street 9<\/strong><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1st Phase, painting studio, 1904<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2nd Phase, family villa, 1905 – 1906<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Just one year later, after the villa of Ferdinand and Amalija Auer was built in the garden of this villa, on today’s Rokova Street 9 Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107 designed a garden pavilion for a painting studio for their son Robert Auer, which he adapted into a family villa shortly after his marriage (the so-called second villa Auer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Colored study of Robert Auer’s painting studio, Rokova Street 9, 1904, owned by the State Archives in Zagreb, GPZ fund<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      Painting studio of Robert Auer, 1904<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Villa Auer in Rokova Street, at the very entrance to the former Rokova cemetery, is one of Kova\u010di\u0107’s most distinctive early works. It was originally built as a studio for painter Robert Auer in the garden of his parents’ nearby villa at Nazorova Street 10. The studio was built during the summer of 1904. It had a very unusual floor plan of an elongated octagon. The studio had two floors. In the lower one there was a cellar, while on the ground floor there was a spacious studio, which was entered from the south side through the vestibule. Between the octagonal studio and the vestibule, there was an anteroom with a triangular floor plan, divided into several smaller units with sanitary facilities and a wardrobe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Vila Auer, Rokova Street 9, 1905 – 1906, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

      Since very soon Robert Auer needed his own family house due to his marriage, Kova\u010di\u0107 created a project for the extension of the studio in 1905. To the octagon of the studio, placed asymmetrically in relation to the building direction of Rokova Street, Kova\u010di\u0107 adds a residential part symmetrical with the street line. He used the basement part of the former studio for the commercial part of the villa, and the bedrooms were located on the upper floor next to the preserved studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Villa Auer, Rokova Street 9, floor plan of the attic, performance variant, 1905, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      Kova\u010di\u0107’s solution for the west facade of the extension is particularly interesting, where he designed an unusually large semi-oval bay window at the northwest corner, along the entire height of the upper floor. From Rokova Street, the villa looks very simple, like a modest one-story house with an accented mansard roof, completely merged with the environment. The facades of the villa are designed extremely restrained, without superfluous decorative details. The only decoration on the street facade is a small replica of an ancient relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Villa Auer, Rokova Street 9, detail of the street facade with a replica of the ancient relief. Replicas of ancient reliefs are a frequent decorative motif on Kova\u010di\u0107’s buildings. Photo: Kre\u0161imir Galovi\u0107, 2013<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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          Villa Auer, Rokova Street 9, detail of the window with recognizable Kova\u010di\u0107 window ornamentation, 1905, Ministy of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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