Emil Jauch

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The Felsbergschulhaus (1944–1946) in Lucerne

Emil Jauch (born September 5, 1911 in Lucerne ; † February 5, 1962 in St. Urban LU ) was a Swiss architect.

life and career

Emil Josef Karl Jauch was born on September 5, 1911 as the son of a head of service at the telegraph office in Lucerne, attended primary school there and completed his visit to the Cantonal School of Lucerne, which was interrupted by a year in the Sarnen College, in 1930 with the technical Matura. His mother died when he was seven years old, and he lost his father in 1930. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to begin studying architecture at the ETH Zurich , which he completed with a diploma under Professors Hess, Dunkel and Salvisberg in 1934. After working at Roland Rohn in Zurich and from 1936 at Ferrini in Bellinzona and Lugano, he worked for Sture Frölén in Stockholm from 1936 to 1939 . There he met Ilse Imhof, a Swiss Abroad who had fled Estonia, in the Swiss Club, whom he married in 1941 and with whom he had three children. After further positions in Basel ( Hermann Baur ) and Graz, he had his own office in Königshütte / Upper Silesia in 1942/43 .

During the Second World War, he returned to Switzerland in 1943 to the Bern cantonal building authority. In 1944 he took part in the competition for the new building of the Felsberg schoolhouse in Lucerne, in which his project won first prize. This enabled him to open his own office in Lucerne in 1945. For the school building, which was completed in 1947, he made an association with the runner-up in the competition, Erwin Bürgi, and ran an office with him for four years. The building caused a sensation in the professional world and led to numerous national and international publications. The Langendorf schoolhouse, another collaboration, emerged from a competition that Bürgi won until 1951. Other schoolhouses that were implemented were in Flüelen (1954) and in Hergiswil, in collaboration with Walter Hermann Schaad. With this he cultivated a relaxed cooperation.

In 1950 Jauch received the Federal Art Grant . He was a member of the Association of Swiss Architects , of which he co-founded the Central Switzerland branch in 1957. After a car accident in Cecina in 1958, severely brain damaged, he was no longer able to carry out projects for the train station and the Schanzenpost in Bern .

Works (in selection)

  • "Gärdet" housing estate , Stockholm, 1936 - 1937, with Stüre Frölén, Architect, Stockholm
  • Felsberg school building , Lucerne, 1944–46, execution: Erwin Bürgi
  • Schoolhouse , Langendorf SO, 1951
  • Post office building , Flüelen, 1951
  • Schoolhouse Matte , Flüelen, 1954
  • Schoolhouse Matt , Hergiswil, 1954
  • Würzenbachmatte residential buildings , Lucerne, 1955–57
  • Tennis clubhouse , Lucerne, 1957
  • Würzenbach shopping center and star houses , Lucerne, 1958

literature

  • Tomaso Zanoni: Emil Jauch. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. p. 296. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Hannes Ineichen, Tomaso Zanoni: Lucerne Architects: Architecture and Urban Development in the Canton of Lucerne 1920-1960. Zurich u. Bern: Verlag Werk 1985. ISBN 3-909145-06-X
  • Eugen Felber: Architect BSA / SIA Emil Jauch † . In: Werk . tape 49 , no. 5 , 1962, pp. 106 ( online ).

supporting documents

  1. ^ NN: Competition for a primary school on the Felsberg in Lucerne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 124 , no. 14 , 1944, pp. 182 ff . ( e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ^ Alfred Roth: Felsberg primary school in Lucerne . In: Werk . tape 36 , no. 7 , 1949, pp. 207-216 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-28345 .
personal data
SURNAME Yes, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1962
Place of death St. Urban