Emanuel Josef Margold

Vienna 1888 - 1962 Bratislava

Emanuel Josef Margold was born in Vienna in 1888. Initially, he received an education as a carpenter, but later became a student at the Stately Art and Industrial School in Mainz. From 1906 to 1909, he attended the School for Arts and Crafts in Vienna. As a student of the class for architecture under Josef Hoffman he participated in numerous competitions with great success. Margold had a special interest in textile art, surface decoration and typography. As of 1908/09 Margold received significant commissions to construct buildings and for entire interior designs. He terminated his work as an assistant for Josef Hoffmann in 1909/10 to be able to participate in designs for the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1911, Margold followed a vocation to join the artist’s colony in Darmstadt. His creative designs were praised and Margold participated quite successfully in numerous big exhibitions. His most significant client was the cookie factory of Hermann Bahlsen, for which he created many drafts that are still famous today.
Margold served in the War. After World War I, he took up his creative work in Darmstadt again. After the disbanding of the artists’ colony, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a freelance architect. In 1938, he moved to Bratislava to become a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts. After further stays in Chrudim and Prague, Mangold moved back to Bratislava, where he eventually died in 1962.