Adolf Gaudy

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St. Mauritius, Zermatt 1910-14
St. Martin, Schwende 1929
Villa Lindenhof, Rorschach

Adolf Gaudy (born July 7, 1872 in Rapperswil ; † January 13, 1956 in Rorschach ) was a Swiss architect who became famous primarily for his church buildings.

Life

Gaudy, who came from a family naturalized to Rapperswil from Haute-Savoie in 1784, was orphaned at an early age. In 1879 his mother married Georg Fransiscus, a Hessian railway engineer who was involved in the construction of the Seedammbahn , with whom the family moved to Darmstadt via Rüti and Zabern in Alsace and settled there. After graduating from high school in Darmstadt, Gaudy studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1892 to 1895 . After working and studying in Paris and Berlin as well as trips to Russia (stations in Königsberg, St. Petersburg and Moscow) and the Netherlands, he was back in Rapperswil in 1898, where he spent six years with Emanuel Walcher-Gaudy, thirteen years his senior (1859-1929) associated. In 1898 the apparently talented draftsman was also assistant in composition teaching to his university professor Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli .

In 1904 he founded his own office in Rorschach, followed by a branch office in Lucerne in 1935. One of Gaudy's main concerns was the realization of a shipping connection between Basel and Lake Constance ; as a co-founder of the Ostschweizer Schiffahrtsverband, this idea kept him busy for a lifetime. Long-time president of the Rorschach Art Association, Gaudy was a pioneer of monument inventory in the canton of St. Gallen . The two monument protection volumes on Graubünden (1921) and the two Appenzell, St. Gallen and Thurgau (1923) are the basis of his doctorate, which he received from the University of Freiburg in 1923.

He either rebuilt or renovated over one hundred churches. He carried historicism over into the 20th century, with his church buildings being celebrated by the public after the turn of the century and recognition by the specialist press. After the First World War, he cautiously opened up to new buildings and, together with his two sons from his first marriage, Adolf (1903–1936), who died early, and Carl Paul (1906–1986), he planned further large church buildings.

In addition, a large number of schools, fire stations, post offices, hotels, banks and factory buildings and private houses, villas and rental houses were also built in an extremely extensive work. The Berghalde settlement and a hospital in Rorschach are singular as a construction task for him.

His second marriage son, Gianpeter Gaudy (1919–1995), also became a well-known architect.

Works (selection)

Church buildings

Secular buildings

literature

  • Bernhard Other: Gaudy, Adolf. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 205 f.
  • E. Peter: † Adolf Gaudy . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 74 , no. 18 , 1956, p. 270 f . ( online ).
  • Bernhard Other: Gaudy, Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ F. Stambach: † Gaudy, Adolf . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 108 , no. 5 , 1936, pp. 55 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Data record from the inventory of the Office for Monument Preservation of the Canton of Thurgau
  3. ^ "Brochure Villa Lindenhof (PDF)" , headquarters of the EnDes Engineering and Design Group
personal data
SURNAME Gaudy, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil SG
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1956
Place of death Rorschach