Hans HOLLEIN

(1934 – 2014)

Austrian architect and designer, sculptor, object artist, exhibition designer and architectural theorist | 1934 born in Vienna, Austria | 1956 diploma at the “Academy of Fine Arts Vienna” | 1958-64 study trip to the United States | 1960 master of architecture at “University of California” | 1964 opens architectural office in Vienna | 1967-76 teaches at the “Kunstakademie Düsseldorf” | 1983 receives “German Architecture Award” | 1985 honoured by Pritzker Architecture Prize – as first Austrian architect | 2014 died in Vienna