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Strnad, Oskar
(b Vienna, 26 Oct 1879; d Alt Aussee, Austria, 3 Sept 1935). Austrian architect and designer. He studied architecture with Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König (1841–1915) at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, graduating in 1904. He then worked briefly in the offices of Friedrich Ohmann and subsequently for theatre specialists Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. In 1909 he was appointed to a position at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna where he taught basic design courses. Although he designed a number of large public structures early in his career, Strnad increasingly focused his energy on residential and interior design. Collaborating with Oskar Wlach (1881–1963) and Josef Frank, he designed several innovative, modern houses in Vienna, including the Villa Hoch (1912) and Villa Wassermann (1914). Executed in a stripped classical style, these works stood in marked contrast to the florid Jugendstil creations popular in the late 19th century and early 20th. Strnad, Frank and Wlach also designed interiors for numerous clients. The simple, light furnishings which they created became the basis of the Wiener Wohnstil popular in the 1920s and early 1930s. After World War I Strnad devoted himself largely to theatre and set design, creating numerous sets for Max Reinhardt’s productions in Vienna, Salzburg and Berlin. During the 1920s he also produced sets for the Vienna Burgtheater and for Ernst Krenek’s famed jazz opera Jonny spielt auf. His most important architectural works of the post-war period include designs for several unexecuted theatres, a section of the large Winarskyhof housing project (1924–5) in Vienna, and a house for two families at the Werkbundausstellung of 1932 in Vienna.
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