Alfons Weisser

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Alfons Weisser at the age of 84 (2016)
Catholic Church Winkeln-St. Gallen, completed in 1959
Catholic Church in Sulgen (TG), completed in 1961
Catholic Church in Teufen (AR), completed in 1976

Alfons Weisser (born July 17, 1931 in St. Gallen ; † December 10, 2016 there ) was a Swiss architect and artist .

Life

Alfons Weisser graduated from the Cantonal School of St. Gallen in 1950 and studied architecture at the ETH Zurich , interrupted by internships, until he graduated with a diploma in 1956. After completing an internship in Ernest Brantschen's architecture office in St. Gallen, he joined this office as a design architect. As early as 1957, the design he coined for the new Catholic Church in St. Gallen Winkeln won first prize in a corresponding tender. The structural risk with the then daring, pillarless concrete roof was only taken thanks to the good reputation of E. Brantschen and the cooperation of the structural engineer Heinz Hossdorf . The revolutionary modern church, completed in 1959, is now under federal protection. Several church buildings followed, mainly designed by Weisser as an employee of the Brantschen office. In 1965, Weisser joined the Pfister & Weisser architects' association, where he worked on and implemented further projects until 1980. After teaching assignments at the St. Gallen School of Applied Arts from 1963, he worked as a specialist teacher at the trade school from 1972 to 1994.

Watercolors by the architect ETH / SIA Weisser were periodically exhibited in galleries. In 2001 a complete exhibition of his works took place in the exhibition hall of the government building of the canton of St. Gallen , with architectural draft models as well as many of his drawings and watercolors being exhibited.

In 2011, Weisser and fellow campaigners campaigned against the planned redesign of the market square in St. Gallen, which provided for the removal of the waiting hall, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava . In the corresponding referendum on May 15, 2011, this project was subsequently rejected.

Weisser was married and had three daughters.

Works

with E. Brantschen
in the Pfister + Weisser architectural association
  • First prize competition for the Zil secondary school, St. Gallen, 1968
  • St. Josefskirche, Matzingen , 1971
  • Catholic Church, Teufen AR , 1974–1976
  • St. Anton Church, Diepoldsau , 1977–1978

literature

  • Fabrizio Brentini: Building for the Church, Catholic church building of the 20th century in Switzerland . Lucerne, 1994

Web links

Commons : Alfons Weisser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edgar Heilig: Brantschen, Ernest. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 86
  2. ↑ Church of the New Age. In: Tagblatt online, September 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Art Guide No. 806, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-7954-4530-0
  4. ^ Peter Schaufelberger: Architect, draftsman and painter. Alfons Weisser in the government building. In: Tagblatt , November 21, 2001, p. 49
  5. ↑ Andreas Nagel: Guezli for Calatrava. St. Galler Tagblatt, April 14, 2011
  6. ^ André Salathé, Cornelia Stähli, Marcus Casutt: The churches of Sulgen. Swiss Art Guide, No. 752, Series 76. Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-85782-752-5 .
  7. ↑ St. Fridolinskirche Glarus. Küng Druck AG, Näfels, 2014
  8. ^ Festschrift for the inauguration of the new Liebfrauenkirche in Nussbaumen on June 11, 1967. Buchdruckerei AG, Baden
  9. ↑ The Teufen Catholic Church Center is complete. In: Eastern Switzerland. 2nd September 1976
  10. ↑ Festschrift for the inauguration of the St. Antonius Church in Diepoldsau-Schmitter on December 3, 1978. Buchdruckerei Rheintaler Volksfreund, Au SG

  • Alfons Weisser: Aquarelle Pfänder, A

  • Streets in Delft, NL

  • Still life

  • Boat harbor in Altnau on Lake Constance, CH

  • River in Mauritius

  • Thread of Ariadne (legend)

  • In honor of Mother Teresa, religious in India

personal data
SURNAME Weisser, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016
Place of death St. Gallen