Carl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg

Carl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg (born July 25, 1806 in Halle ; died April 9, 1841 in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss architect , journalist and university professor who achieved importance as the founder and pioneer of Swiss architecture education and journalism.

life and work

After studying in Munich and at the Berlin Bauakademie , Ehrenberg passed his exam there in 1828 as a royal Prussian building conductor. He came to Zurich around 1830, where he was a teacher of technical subjects at the industrial and cantonal school , and from 1833 he also held lectures in architecture and aesthetics at the newly founded University of Zurich as a private lecturer , making him the first academic architecture teacher in German-speaking Switzerland. From 1836 he published the first architecture magazine in Switzerland, the “magazine about the entire building industry” and founded, among other things, the “Society of Swiss Engineers and Architects” (later the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects ) for this purpose . In the short span of life - Ehrenberg died at the age of 35 - Ehrenberg created buildings all over Switzerland as a building architect, in addition to buildings in Zurich, of course, such as the Villa Ehrenberg on Rämistrasse , factory owners ' villas, the municipality and town hall in Glarus (burned down in 1861) just as in Sion the episcopal palace. Ehrenberg cultivated bourgeois classicism, which was characterized by restraint and careful balancing of horizontal and vertical style elements.

Works

buildings

Villa Trumpi. Glarus 1833–35
Parish hall. Glarus 1837
Ehrenberg Villa. Zurich 1837
Brunner residential and commercial building. Glarus 1835–39
Episcopal Palace. Customs 1839–40

Fonts

Journal about the whole construction industry. 4 vols. Zurich 1837–41. on-line
Construction dictionary. Frankfurt 1840
Geometric constructions. Zurich 1841

literature

Jan Capol: Ehrenberg, Carl Ferdinand von. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , pp. 160 f.

Web links

Bruno Carl: Ehrenberg, Carl Ferdinand von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

supporting documents

↑ Othmar Birkner: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Aarau. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 1 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01509-X , p. 81 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-1273 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on April 2, 2016]).
↑ Hanspeter Rebsamen: Carl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg, 1806-1841 . the founder of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects and his home in Zurich. In: Our art monuments . tape 14 , no. 1 , 1963, doi : 10.5169 / seals-392793 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ehrenberg, Carl Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1841
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Othmar Birkner: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Aarau. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 1 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01509-X , p. 81 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-1273 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on April 2, 2016]).

[2] Hanspeter Rebsamen: Carl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg, 1806-1841 . the founder of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects and his home in Zurich. In: Our art monuments . tape 14 , no. 1 , 1963, doi : 10.5169 / seals-392793 .