Albert Gerster

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The Gasthaus auf dem Gurten (1899), rebuilt several times

Karl Albert Gerster (born November 10, 1864 in Bern ; died August 22, 1935 there ) was a Swiss architect .

Education and career

The son of the reformed master builder Karl Rudolf Gerster attended the Lerberschule and then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and stone cutter . After studying part-time at the Stuttgart construction trade school , he went on to study at a university in Darmstadt . Gerster first worked in Iserlohn and Mainz and made a study trip through France before joining Ernst Jung's office in Winterthur. Back in Bern, he was construction manager at Dorer and Füchslin from 1891 to 1893 and already owned his own office next to it.

After a few houses, the first major public building projects from 1895 to 1897 were the municipal riding arena in Bern and the Gasthaus auf dem Gurten , which was completed in 1899. From the early buildings, which often showed a Swiss wood style , the mostly historical and conservative style changed through the neo-renaissance , especially of various hotel buildings, such as the Eiger Hotels (1898–1904) in Bern, the Kurhaus Grimmialp and the Hotel Gurnigelbad in Rüti about a moderate neo-baroque style of many stately villas on the Bern periphery, which were often used as embassies. Gerster, whose old town buildings helped shape Bern from the turn of the century, was skeptical of modern styles and represented historicism up to his late buildings, which were built in the early 1930s.

Gerster was a member of the Great Citizens' Council and a major in the engineering troops .

Works (selection)

  • Row rental houses , Bern 1895, 1897, 1901
  • Villa Beata , Bern 1895–1896
  • Municipal riding school , Bern 1895–1897
  • Hotel Eiger , building district Mühlemattstrasse / Belpstrasse / Philosophenweg / Eigerplatz , Bern 1898–1904, 1909
  • Gasthaus Gurten Kulm , Köniz 1899–1901, extension 1906–1907
  • Kurhaus Grimmialp , Diemtigtal 1899, with Paul Lindt (destroyed)
  • Grand Hotel Gurnigelbad , Riggisbach 1902–1905, with Lindt and Hofmann (destroyed)
  • Von Werdt Passage , Bern 1904
  • Villa von Steiger , Bern 1906–1907, with Cantonal Master Builder Konrad von Steiger
  • Villa Elfenweg , Bern 1907
  • Hotel Wildbolz , Hilterfingen 1907
  • Four Seasons House , Bern 1908
  • Villa Poststrasse , Burgdorf 1910
  • Hotel Moderne , residential building and Hotel Garni, Bern 1910–1912
  • Villa Mende , Bern 1910–1911
  • Loeb department store , Bern, expansion 1910–1914 and 1928–1929
  • Villa Korrodi , Bern 1911–1912
  • German legation , Bern 1912
  • Stämpfli house , Bern 1912–1913
  • Hotel Bristol and Storchen , Bern 1912–1913
  • Kursaal Schänzli , Bern 1912–1913
  • Residential house , Bern 1917
  • Büchsel House , Lützelfluh 1917
  • Linen weaving mill Schwob & Co , Bern 1919
  • Schosshalde residential colony , Bern from 1920
  • Villa Prévost , Lucerne 1921
  • Büchi office building , Bern 1924
  • Hotel zum Wilden Mann , Bern 1924–1925
  • Zeitglockenhof , Bern 1925
  • Kantonalbank , Moutier 1926–1927
  • City House , Bern approx. 1930

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Andreas Hauser, Peter Röllin, Brechtold Weber: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Bern. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 2 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 453 , col. 2 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-3534 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ↑ INSA Volume 2 p. 511 ( e-periodica.ch )
  3. ↑ INSA Volume 2 p. 523 ( e-periodica.ch )
  4. ↑ INSA Volume 2 p. 523 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Gerster, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerster, Karl Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1935
Place of death Bern