Chiodera and Tschudy

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Villa Patumbah , 1883–1885
Schauspielhaus Zurich , 1888–1889

Chiodera und Tschudy was a Swiss architecture firm that existed in Zurich from 1878 to 1908 . Among other things, it built the St. Gallen and Zurich synagogues , which received a great deal of attention from experts. The theater (rebuilt) and the Villa Patumbah are well known in Zurich .

Alfred Chiodera

The family of Alfred Chiodera (born April 25, 1850 in Milan , † November 18, 1916 in Hertenstein LU ) had come to Rapperswil from Milan in 1859 . After graduating from the St. Gallen Cantonal School , he studied from 1868 to 1872 at the Stuttgart Polytechnic School , a stronghold of the German Neo-Renaissance . During his first job with Adolf Gnauth , he won the architectural competition for a hotel in Baden. On his trip to Italy from 1873 to 1874 he was employed by Giuseppe Mengoni , where he got to know the Italian Neo-Renaissance and its iron constructions such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, which is currently under construction . Even after his return to Zurich in 1875, he built several villas in northern Italy and Rome. First he worked in Zurich for Heinrich Ernst , where he met his later partner Tschudy, with whom he founded his own office in 1878. In addition to his work as an architect, Chiodera, who retired from professional life in 1908, devoted himself intensively to airship travel - for example, he developed the airship 'Chiodera mixte', whose plans he presented to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1902 , and - inspired by Arnold Böcklin - to painting. He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

Theophil Tschudy

Theophil Tschudy (born March 6, 1847 in Mumpf ; † November 15, 1911 in Zurich) began studying architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1867 after completing the Cantonal School in Aarau . After completing his studies, he worked for Würth in Davos from 1869 and for Ray in Budapest from 1872. Back in Zurich, he worked from 1875 with Ernst, then made the following year independently and did in 1878 with his partners.

plant

In the joint office, which existed from 1878 to 1908, Chiodera was responsible for the artistic, Tschudy for the technical and commercial part. The entire work went through the typical change in style from historicism to art nouveau . The preference for the eclectic wealth of forms of jewelry and decorations met with contemporary criticism. A typical example of the early creative phase is the Villa Patumbah in Zurich , a palazzo with rich colors and a variety of stone materials in Renaissance shapes. The Palace Hotel in St. Moritz , reminiscent of Tudor Gothic, with opulent Art Nouveau furnishings from 1896 accentuates the beginning of the second creative phase, at the end of which, for example, Chiodera's own studio is in the corner house on Bleicherweg in Zurich.

Plant (selection)

  • Villa Legler-Hefti , Ponte San Pietro , around 1875 (Chiodera)
  • Synagogue , St. Gallen, 1880–1881
  • Housing complex Dufourstr. 40–42, Zurich, 1882
  • Villa Kürsteiner , St. Gallen, 1883–1884
  • Synagogue , Zurich, 1884
  • Villa Patumbah , Zurich, 1883–1885
  • Cathedral facade (project), Milan, 1886
  • Schauspielhaus , Zurich, 1888–1889
  • Journeyman's House Wolfbach , Zurich, 1888–1889
  • Sechseläutenplatz (project), Zurich 1888–1890
  • Commercial and residential buildings , Bleicherweg 37–47, Zurich, 1890–1906
  • Hotel Palace , St. Moritz, 1892–1896
  • Hotel Schweizerhof , St. Moritz, 1897–1898
  • St. Peter and Paul , church tower annex to the then emergency church, Zurich, 1895–1896
  • Villa Chiodera , Zurich, 1897
  • Villa “Dem Schönen” (extension), Zurich 1902–1904
  • Palazzo Lecca-Dugacini , Rome, around 1907–1909

Web links

Works by Alfred Chiodera in the digital collections of the Stuttgart University Library

literature

  • Claudia Fischer-Karrer: Chiodera and Tschudy. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland, 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. The curriculum vitae follows the necrology: Carl Jegher: Alfred Chiodera. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 68 (1916), pp. 268–269.
    as well as the biographical article by Claudia Fischer-Karrer (see literature )
  2. The curriculum vitae follows the necrology: Th. Tschudy. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 58 (1911), p. 287.
    as well as the biographical article by Claudia Fischer-Karrer (see literature )