Albert Froelich

Albert Froelich (born January 28, 1876 in Brugg ; † September 3, 1953 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect . He built mostly in the Art Nouveau style . He was best known for building crematoria , in which he was looking for new forms of expression based on ancient models.

biography

The son of a coppersmith was an apprentice at an architecture firm in Baden . From 1897 to 1901 he graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris , where he continued his architectural and artistic training. After a stay in Italy , Froelich worked in Heinrich Seeling's office in Berlin from 1902 . In 1904 he designed the cemetery and the abdication hall in Brugg. He started his own business in Charlottenburg in 1906 after winning the project competition for the New Playhouse on Nollendorfplatz . In 1907 he opened a branch office in Brugg.

Froelich received orders mainly in northern Switzerland. In addition to numerous villas and country houses, these include the crematoria in Aarau ( Rosengarten cemetery ) and Zurich ( Sihlfeld cemetery ), the abdication hall, the Stapferschulhaus and the Vindonissa Museum in Brugg and the village gym in Windisch . Since most of his projects in Germany were awarded prizes in architectural competitions, but not considered, he moved his office from Charlottenburg to Zurich in 1913.

In his second creative period, Froelich gradually turned to neoclassicism , which is expressed in his station buildings in Brugg (1919/20), Schlieren (1921) and Kaiseraugst (1925). Other public buildings were the crematorium in Lucerne (1924–26), the Milchbuck school in Zurich (1928–30) and the Aargauische Kantonalbank building in Brugg (1932–33).

literature

• Zuzana Haefeli-Sonin, Klaus Speich: The Vindonissa Museum in Brugg . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Swiss art guide, volume 589 . Bern 1996, ISBN 3-85782-589-8 , p. 20-23 .

Web links

• Werner Stutz: Froelich, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .