Dr Karl Langer graduated in Vienna as an architect from the master class of Peter Behrens. He migrated to Australia in 1939, and settled in Brisbane. He became a lecturer at the University of Queensland, and later also at the Queensland University of Technology. He was fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and of the Australian Planning Institute. He was also the first chairman of the Queensland Committee of the Institute of Landscape Architecture, and an executive member of the National Trust. He designed many of Queensland's best-known buildings, including the chapel at St. Peter's Lutheran College in Brisbane. After his death in 1969, his wife Gertrude Langer wW) (q.v.) wrote a collection of poems which were later published as Love Transcends Death : Poems for My Beloved Karl (1987).
