Albert Maurer

Albert Maurer (born May 21, 1889 in Zurich ; † May 6, 1935 in Rüschlikon) was a Swiss architect. He created the majority of his work together with Hans Vogelsanger as Vogelsanger and bricklayer .

The son of a Wipking master carpenter and carpenter worked after his studies, which he completed in 1908 as a construction technician at the Technikum Winterthur , until 1911 for the Pfister brothers in Zurich. Then he went to Germany and studied at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . There he worked on the side and afterwards with his university professor Werner Kreis . At the beginning of the First World War he returned to Switzerland as a sapper , where he founded the joint office with his partner in Rüschlikon in 1915/16.

Works (selection)

Vogelsanger and Maurer office

• Gottlieb Duttweiler country house , Rüschlikon, 1920
• Privet school house , Oerlikon , 1922–24
• Landhaus zum Thurm , Erlenbach , 1924–25
• Schoolhouse , Grafstal , 1926–27
• Post office building , Oerlikon, 1927
• Augustinergasse office building , Zurich, 1927
• Schoolhouse , Wetzikon , 1928–29
• Wipkingen parish hall , Zurich, 1930–32
• Row houses , Zurich, 1931
• Villa Maurer , Rüschlikon, 1932
• Villa Stünzi , Horgen , 1933
• House in Steinlig , Bassersdorf , 1933
• Reformed Church Birmenstorf , 1933–34
• Villa Wach , Kilchberg , 1934
• Pfister-Leuthold residence , Rüschlikon, 1935

literature

• Cornelia Bauer: Vogelsanger and Mason. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 552
• NN: Alb. Mason (Nekrolog) . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 105 , no. 24 , 1935, pp. 285 ( e-periodica.ch ).
• Heinrich Bräm : Albert Maurer, architect BSA † (Nekrolog) . In: The work . tape 22 , no. 7 , 1935, pp. XIV ( e-periodica.ch ).

1. ↑ The Landhaus zum Turm in Erlenbach. Built in 1924/25 by Vogelsanger and Maurer, architects BSA, Zurich . In: Das Werk, Vol. 15, 1928, Issue 10, pp. 305-311 ( digitized version ).