Bräuning, Leu, Dürig

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Basler Bürgerspital, built 1938–1945, today Clinic 1 of the university hospital

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the architects Bräuning, Leu, and Dürig managed one of Basel's busiest architectural offices, which built numerous public buildings, commercial and commercial buildings as well as industrial plants. Your entire work is characterized by the endeavor to achieve a “moderate, solid modernity”, as the press release on the 1999 overall exhibition emphasizes.

The owners

Franz Bräuning (born September 22, 1888 in Basel; † September 14, 1974 there), the son of a foreman, did an apprenticeship in the building business of the Stamm brothers from 1904 to 1907 before studying architecture at the Burgdorf Technical Center from 1907 to 1909 . After graduating in 1909, he worked in Strasbourg until 1913 , then in Bern for the Basel architecture firm Widmer, Erlacher, Calini and at times in Berlin for the Swiss architect Ernst Rentsch on planning for BASF in Ludwigshafen. He founded his own office in 1920, which his two partners subsequently also joined.

Little is known about Hans Leu (* December 23, 1896 in Basel; † January 7, 1954) about the training of the architect, the obituaries report nothing about it. Leu completed an apprenticeship with Julius Kelterborn and then worked in various architectural offices, where he met Hans Schmidt, among others . After winning the competition for a central cemetery on Hörnli in 1923 , he became Bräuning's partner in 1924.

Arthur Dürig (born June 9, 1903 in Bern ; † February 17, 1978 in Lucerne ) also completed an apprenticeship after graduating from high school and then studied at the Burgdorf Technical Center. After a three-year internship, he continued his studies from 1928 to 1930 at the Technical University of Stuttgart and then became a research assistant to Paul Bonatz . From 1931 he worked at Bräuning and Leu; he became a partner in 1932 or 1933.

plant

After winning the contract for the cemetery on the Hörnli in Basel, a neoclassical system that was carried out together with the offices of Klingelfuss from Zurich and Suter & Burckhardt from Basel until 1932, the orders for the exhibition hotel for the 1930 sample fair came in, which also required neoclassical forms Reformed church in Allschwil added in 1931/1932.

The Basel city casino on Barfüsserplatz , planned according to a design by Brodtbeck in 1934, was built by Kehlstadt , von Brodtbeck and Bohny together with Bräuning, Leu, Dürig in 1942. The Swiss pavilion for the Small World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 , a building of moderate modernism, was built by the office as early as 1937 .

Bräuning and Leu were involved in Basel's urban development through numerous commissions, such as the Building Construction Act of 1939 and the zoning plan. While these two managed the office organizationally, Dürig was the designing architect who was involved in homeland security and the art credit commission.

At the end of the 1930s, the Riehen institution for the deaf and dumb was also built and, during the Second World War, together with Ernst and Paul Vischer and Hermann Baur, the Bürgerspital , one of the largest hospital buildings of its time.

After 1945, the VSK print shop followed , later Coop, a factory building for Sandoz and, together with Alfred and Karl Doppler and Seeger, row buildings in the Kannenfeld housing estate from 1948 to 1950. But the smaller design is also attracting attention in the professional world: The August issue of the trade journal Das Werk from 1947 describes the Ticino holiday home of one of the architects, the December issue of the same year, entirely dedicated to shopfitting, reviews two shop fittings in the office in Basel.

In the 1950s, commercial buildings followed in Basel around Aeschenplatz : the Aeschenhof from 1952 and the Pax office building from the same year (demolished in 1995), the Drachen residential and commercial building from 1956 to 1958. However, the focus of attention was on the cargo handling building at Rheinhafen and the redesign of the Basel Zoo with the construction of the elephant house.

The late works of the office - Hans Leu had died in 1954 - included the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule (together with Hermann Baur ), the competition for which was decided in 1941, but was not completed until 1961, a contemporary expansion of the baroque sand pit and urban planning finally the craftsman's bank in the Aeschenvorstadt.

List of works (selection)

  • Friedhof am Hörnli , Basel, 1922–31
  • Iron warehouse at Dreispitz , Basel 1926
  • Bridge and tower , International Exhibition for Inland Shipping, Basel 1926
  • Atelier Brunhilde Kind , Dinkelbergstrasse, Riehen 1927
  • Klingenthalmühle , Basel 1928–29, renovation and new building
  • Kino Palermo , Olympia-Film, Basel 1928–29
  • Cinema Clara-Halle , Clarastrasse, Basel 1928
  • House Kaller , residential and commercial building, Greifengasse, Basel 1928–29
  • Thiel House , residential and commercial building, Streitgasse 4–6, Basel 1930–31
  • Model hotel , WOBA , Basel 1930
  • LIGA , warehouse and office building, Dornacher- / Falkensteinerstrasse, Basel 1930–31
  • Three terraced houses at Rebenstrasse 36–40, Riehen 1931–32
  • Zum Anker , house and restaurant, Hochbergerplatz, Basel 1931–32
  • Reformed Church , Allschwil 1931–32
  • Post office , Allschwil 1932
  • Orzel House , residential and commercial building, Blumenrain 22, Basel 1932–33
  • Mountain house of the SAC , Mont Moron 1933
  • Zum Steinenklösterli , house and restaurant, Steinenvorstadt 13, Basel 1932–33

literature

  • Dorothee Huber: Bräuning, Leu, Dürig . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Architekturmuseum Basel (ed.): Bräuning, Leu, Dürig . A Basel architecture firm 1922–1978. cop., Basel 1999.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Architekturmuseum Basel (ed.): Bräuning, Leu, Dürig . A Basel architecture firm 1922–1978. cop., Basel 1999, p. o. S., press release .
  2. ^ Rudolf Christians: Hans Leu . In: The work . tape 34 , no. 12 , 1947, pp. 382-383 (on- line ).
  3. ↑ Ideas competition for a central cemetery on the Hörnli in Basel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 81 , no. 17 , 1923, pp. * 70 * - * 71 * ( online ).
  4. ^ Cemetery on the Hörnli in Basel . In: The work . tape 19 , no. 6 , 1932, pp. 177–182 as well as page XXV , doi : 10.5169 / seals-17668 .
  5. ^ Reformed Church Allschwil: Architects Bräuning, Leu, Dürig, Basel . In: The work . tape 20 , no. 9 , 1933, pp. 260-263 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86406 .
  6. ^ Arthur Dürig: New Casino Basel building . In: The work . tape 29 , no. 11 , 1942, pp. 257-272 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86991 .
  7. ^ Adolphe Guyonnet: Notes et impressions de l'exposition de Paris . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 110 , no. 6 , 1937, pp. 60-63 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-49098 .
  8. ↑ Plans
  9. ↑ The institution for the deaf and dumb in Riehen near Basel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 105 , no. 26 , 1935, pp. 304 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-47456 .
  10. ^ Hermann Baur: On the architecture of the new Basel hospital building . In: The work . tape 33 , no. 2 , 1945, p. 43–45 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-26300 .
  11. ↑ Hans Staub: Bürgerspital Basel: Built by the architects E. & P. ​​Vischer / H. Baur / Bräuning, Leu, Dürig, architects BSA / SIA, Basel . In: The work . tape 33 , no. 2 , 1946, p. 37-42 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-26301 .
  12. ↑ Print shop of the Association of Swiss Consumers (VSK) in Basel: 1947/49, Bräuning, Leu, Dürig, Architects BSA, Basel . In: The work . tape 37 , no. 1 , 1950, p. 1-42 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-28997 .
  13. ^ J. Maurizio: Three Basel skyscrapers . In: Living . tape 25 , no. 1 , 1950, p. 60 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-102160 .
  14. ↑ Holiday home near Cugnasco in Ticino: built in 1941/45 by Bräuning, Leu, Durig, architects BSA, Basel . In: The work . tape 34 , no. 8 , 1947, pp. 254-256 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-27026 .
  15. ↑ Modern shop renovations . In: The work . tape 34 , no. 12 , 1947, pp. 382-383 (on- line ).
  16. ^ New buildings in Basel's Rheinhafen: Architects Bräuning, Leu, Dürig, Basel . In: The work . tape 41 , no. 7 , 1954, pp. 283 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-31736 .
  17. ↑ Elephant House in the Basel Zoo . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 11 , 1956, pp. 341 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-33341 .
  18. ^ Tighter competition for a trade school building on the sand pit area in Basel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 117 , no. 12 , 1941, pp. 129 ff . ( online ).
  19. ^ New building for the general trade school in Basel . In: The work . tape 49 , no. 2 , 1962, pp. 61-70 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-38388 .
  20. ↑ Integrated art in the new building of the Handwerkerbank Basel . In: The work . tape 49 , no. 8 , 1962, pp. 282 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-38459 .