Emil Schmid-Kerez

Johann Emil Schmid-Kerez (born April 6, 1843 in Eglisau , † January 6, 1915 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect .

Schmid-Kerez completed his training as an architect in the years 1860–1863 with Gottfried Semper at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. After three years of employment, u. a. in Burgdorf and Mühlhausen, he studied again from 1866 to 1869 at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and with Charles-Auguste Questel in Paris and Versailles. Back in Zurich, he opened his own office in 1872. Many public buildings, commercial buildings and villas, especially in the neo-renaissance style , were built under his leadership: in the years 1874–1877 the citizen asylum, between 1880 and 1881 the residential and commercial building Kappelerhof on Bahnhofstrasse, in 1881 the Quaibrücke, in 1895 –1898 the federal post office. The stately Palais Henneberg on Alpenquai (built 1896–1900, demolished in 1969) was his first building in the neo- baroque style .

He was married from 1873.

Works (selection)

Quaibrücke , Zurich around 1890

• Grand Hotel and Kurhaus , Zurich Üetliberg (Aegerten) 1875 (demolished in 1943)
• Uto-Kulm Inn , Zurich Üetliberg 1874–75 (burned down in 1878)
• Citizens' asylum , Zurich 1874–77
• Villa Sulzer-Grossmann , Winterthur 1876–77
• Bundeshaus Ost , competition, Bern 1877, 2nd prize
• Kappelerhof , Zurich 1879–81
• Henneberg office building , Zurich 1881 (demolished 1960)
• Quaibrücke , Zurich 1882–84 (with Holzmann & Cie as general contractor and operator)
• Villa Schmid-Kerez , Zurich 1896.
• Fraumünsterpost , Zurich 1897.
• Palais Henneberg , Zurich 1896–1900 (demolished 1969)

literature

• Cornelia Bauer: Schmid-Kerez, Johann Emil. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 483.
• Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 3, 1913 (reprint 1967), p. 66.
• NN: E. Schmid-Kerez . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 65 , no. 3 , 1915, p. 28 f. and a blackboard ( online at: E-Periodica ).

Web links

• Cornelia Bauer: Schmid, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .