Albert Knoepfli

Albert Knoepfli (born December 9, 1909 in Bischofszell , TG ; † December 14, 2002 in Aadorf ) was a Swiss art historian and monument conservator .

Life

Albert Knoepfli studied art and music , history , German and Romance studies in Basel , Grenoble and Perugia . From 1935 to 1945 he was a secondary school teacher in Aadorf, from 1945 to 1974 inventor of the art monuments of the canton of Thurgau and its first curator. In 1962 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich , where he became a lecturer in 1964, and from 1972 to 1979 he headed the Institute for Monument Preservation at the ETH Zurich .

He was particularly interested in the art monuments of the canton of Thurgau and the Lake Constance area as well as the architecture of the railroad. In 1975 he brought his map collection, comprising over 6500 objects, to the Dr. Albert Knoepfli Foundation , which is located in the Bischofszell local museum.

In 1961 he received the Lake Constance Literature Prize of the city of Überlingen, and in 1983 the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring from the German National Committee for Monument Protection .

Albert Knoepfli was an honorary citizen of Bischofszell.

Fonts

• History of the Heiliggeistspital in Bischofszell , Salmann-Schildknecht, Bischoftszell 1937.
• The art monuments of the Canton of Thurgau:
  • Volume 1: The Frauenfeld district (= Swiss art monuments , volume 23). Society for Swiss Art History , Basel 1950.
  • Volume 2: The Münchwilen district (= Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 34), Society for Swiss Art History, Basel 1955.
  • Volume 3: The district of Bischofszell (= Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 48), Society for Swiss Art History, Basel 1962.
  • Volume 4: The St. Katharinenthal Monastery (= Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 83), Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1989, ISBN 3-909158-37-4 .
• Armin Rüeger and his friend Othmar Schoeck. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 34, 1959, pp. 7–38. ( e-periodica )
• Art history of the Lake Constance area. 2 volumes, Thorbecke, Lindau 1961 and 1969.
• The St. Georgen monastery in Stein am Rhein. Society for Swiss Art History, Basel 1979.
• Four pictures on the art history of the Lake Constance area , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 99/100. Vol. 1981/82, pp. 301-492.
• Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirchgemeinde St. Gallen (Ed.): Reformed Church S [ank] t Laurenzen, S [ank] t Gallen (= Swiss Art Guide No. 325), Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-85782-325 -9 .
• Reinhard Schneider (Ed.): Salem. 850 years of imperial abbey and palace. Stadler, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-7977-0104-7 .
• with Walter Drack, Karl Keller; Reformed Church Care Oberwinterthur (Ed.): The Reformed Church S [ank] t Arbogast in Oberwinterthur (= Swiss Art Guide , No. 354). Society for Swiss Art History 1984, ISBN 3-85782-354-2 .
• with Alfons Raimann, Hermann Lei sen .; Weinfelden municipal council (publisher): Weinfelden (= Swiss Art Guide . No. 359/360: Series 36), Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-85782-359-3 .
• City of Stein am Rhein (Ed.): Stein am Rhein (= Swiss Art Guide No. 218/219, Series 22), 2nd, corrected edition, Society for Swiss Art History 1984.
• Birnau on Lake Constance. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1984, ISBN 3-7845-0241-5 .
• Seized by art: conservator Heinrich Ammann. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 59, 1984, pp. 100–122. ( e-periodica.ch )
• with Otto Raggenbass , Carl J. Burckhardt : Despite barbed wire 1939–1945. Borderland on Lake Constance and the Upper Rhine in difficult times. Afterword by Herbert Berner, Südkurier, Konstanz 1964; 2nd edition, 1985, ISBN 3-87799-054-1 .
• Thurgau's first printing house in Bischofszell. 1792–1800, Huber, Frauenfeld 1986, ISBN 3-7193-0964-9 .
• with Alfons Raimann and Alfred Hungerbühler; City Council Kreuzlingen and Association of Local History Museum (ed.): Kreuzlingen TG (= Swiss Art Guide No. 393/394, Series 40). Society for Swiss. Art history, Bern 1986 ISBN 3-85782-393-8 .
• with Evangelical Church Wagenhausen (ed.): Propstei Wagenhausen TG . In: Swiss Art Guide No. 407 Series 41, Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-85782-407-7 .
• Reclam's Handbook of Artistic Techniques . Part 2., wall painting, mosaic , Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010345-2 .
• America - Victors and vanquished in the time of Columbus [catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Museum Bischofszell from June 13 to July 12, 1992], idea, design and catalog Albert Knoepfli, Museum Society Bischofszell, Bischofszell 1992.
• with Beatrice Sendner-Rieger; Society for Swiss Art History GSK (Ed.): Bischofszell: Art, Culture, History (= Swiss Art Guide , No. 541/543 Series 55), 3rd, completely revised edition. GSK, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-85782-541-3 .
• Armin Rüeger and his friend Othmar Schoeck. Self-published by Albert Knoepfli, Aadorf 1995.
• Weinfelden Castle, history and fortunes. Wolfau - Dr. Mühlemann, Weinfelden 2001, ISBN 3-85809-118-9 .
• The Sulzer red color and calico printing company in Aadorf. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch. 1951. Frauenfeld 1951, pp. 24-38.

literature

• Peter Erni, Beatrice Sendner; Office for the Preservation of Monuments of the Canton of Thurgau (publisher): Albert Knoepfli - the first preservation of monuments in the Canton of Thurgau. In: Preservation of monuments in Thurgau , Volume 5, Huber , Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7193-1340-9 .
• Hans Joachim Albrecht u. a .: About color and colors: Albert Knoepfli on his 70th birthday (= publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , Volume 4). Festschrift . Manesse, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7175-8033-7 (articles in German, French, Italian).
• Georg Thürer: Laudation on the awarding of the Bischofszeller honorary citizenship to Albert Knoepfli. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 59, 1984, pp. 87-99. ( e-periodica.ch )

Web links

• Verena Rothenbühler: Albert Knoepfli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Literature by and about Albert Knoepfli in the catalog of the German National Library