Austrian Jewish architect Hugo Gorge studied at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien (Vienna). In 1911, he became an employee at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, and is regarded as one of the early representatives of modernism in Wien. His design was characterized by its simplicity, renouncing ornamental forms. After service in World War I, he worked primarily as a furniture designer and interior decorator. He died at the age of 51 after a long illness. His wife had to immigrate together with her three children to London in 1938 to escape Nazi terrorism. In 1928 he won the first prize in a competition for a “Competition for a municipal bath in Wiener Neustadt” with his design, but the project, which he also submitted in Los Angeles, was not realized.
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