Albert Brenner (architect)

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Albert Brenner (born September 21, 1860 in Kurzdorf ; † January 23, 1938 in Frauenfeld ) was a Swiss architect .

biography

The Münchwilen schoolhouse, 1886, with later alterations

Brenner studied at the Technikum Winterthur . After initial work experience with his father, the architect Johann Joachim Brenner , he went to Lausanne, where he worked with Benjamin Recordon and Gustav Gull . As early as 1886 he had to return home after the early death of his father and take over his office. Brenner apparently took over his father's orders seamlessly, so his first building, the schoolhouse in Münchwilen (1886) is astonishingly similar to the last schoolhouses of Johann Joachim Brenner, especially the slightly older schoolhouse in Zihlschlacht. At first, like his father, he was mostly committed to late classicism, but also used elements of the Swiss wood style . After 1900 he turned more and more to new forms of construction, namely the home style.

With Walter Stutz (born August 12, 1878, † June 7, 1955), who was his employee from 1899, he entered into a partnership in 1907.

The Brenner and Stutz office then existed until Brenner's death. It shaped the building activity in Thurgau until the 1930s, creating public buildings such as the cantonal banks of Weinfelden (1896) and Amriswil (1908), educational buildings such as the secondary school in Dozwil (1907) and Bischofzell (1909), and primary school in Diessenhofen (1909) ) and the cantonal school in Frauenfeld (1911), industrial and commercial buildings such as mechanical embroidery in Münchwilen (1904), the ironworks (1909) and the ship embroidery (1909) in Frauenfeld, the switching and testing office in Kurzdorf (1918). In addition, there were the churches of St. Johann Baptist in Frauenfeld (1915–1916) and the construction of the Protestant town church (1927–1929) based on plans by H. Wiesmann. Towards the end of his professional career, he built the south wing of the Frauenfeld government building (1935–1936).

During the First World War, as colonel, Brenner was in command of the Murten Fortress , and from 1919 to 1931 a local councilor in Frauenfeld. From 1914 to 1932 he was Thurgau's Grand Councilor , where he worked, among other things, on the formulation of the cantonal building law.

literature

  • Gabriela Güntert: They built the Thurgau: The Brenner architects. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004. ISBN 3-7193-1369-7 (with work catalog)
  • Gabriela Güntert: Brenner, Albert. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 90.
  • † Albert Brenner . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 111 , no. 9 , 1938, pp. 111 ( online ).

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Gabriela Güntert: They built the Thurgau: The architects Brenner. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004. ISBN 3-7193-1369-7 , pp. 74-75
  2. ^ Gabriela Güntert: They built the Thurgau: The architects Brenner. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004. ISBN 3-7193-1369-7 , pp. 14-15
  3. ^ O. Thalmann: † Walter Stutz . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 73 , no. 44 , 1955, pp. 702 ( online ).
  4. ^ Gabriela Güntert: They built the Thurgau: The architects Brenner. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004. ISBN 3-7193-1369-7 , pp. 14-15
personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Kurzdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1938
Place of death Frauenfeld