Background
Karl Troll was the son of a carpenter from a small village in Lower Austria.
Karl Troll was the son of a carpenter from a small village in Lower Austria.
During 1886-1889 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt.
He was sent to Vienna to learn textile printing in a vocational school. As an excellent student with interest in medieval churches he obtained a scholarship for a study trip to Germany and Italy (about 1892). During 1893–1905 Troll worked in the architecture bureau of Franz von Neumann.
Among his independent projects were the city school in Antonsplatz, Vienna 10 (together with Anton Rehak in 1902) and Evangelical Church in Moravská Ostrava (together with Ludwig Faigl in 1905-1907).
Many other proposals, however, were not implemented. The collapse of Austria-Hungary (1918) started the social decline of Karl Troll.
His partner Stoppel died that year and there"s no evidence of any subsequent projects under Troll"s name. He probably gave up the independence to became an employee.
A later correspondence between architects suggests he lived very poorly.
After the death of Neumann, Karl Troll and Johann Stoppel, another member of the bureau, started an independent office.