Maker/Artist
Nitzchke, Oscar
American and German architect, 1900-1991
Born 29 August 1900; died 11 February 1991. Nitzchke's family moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1908. Nitzchke entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva in 1917 and the Atelier Laloux-Lemaresquier in Paris in 1920. In 1921 and 1922 he studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1922, he began to work in the office of Le Corbusier. In 1923, he left the Atelier Laloux-Lemaresquier and joined the Atelier du Palais de Bois under Auguste Perret. In December 1938, Nitzchke came to the United States to become Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Yale University and to work with Wallace K. Harrison and Fouilhoux in New York as head of design research. While working with Harrison & Abromovitz, Nitzchke took part in the Alcoa Building in Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Opera House projects. He became an American citizen in 1952 and changed the spelling of his name from Nitzschke to Nitzchke. American architect lived in Paris.
