Eugene Stettler

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Eugene Stettler
Bern Art Museum (1895)

Karl Ludwig Albert Eugen Stettler (born June 17, 1840 in Bern ; † February 19, 1913 there ) was a Swiss architect .

education

The son of the architect Eduard Stettler (1803–1879), who came from the patrician Stettler family, studied architecture from 1859 to 1863 at the Paris École des beaux-arts . He had previously sat in with Charles Guestel in Paris, after completing his studies he worked with Charles Garnier , followed by a trip to Italy in 1866/67 with a six-month stay in Rome. After his return to Bern, he was town planning inspector there from 1867–76 and was a member of the Münsterbauverein's initiative committee until 1882, as well as a member of the Academic Art Committee. In addition to the projects that he built as a town planning inspector, he built villas and residences for citizens and the upper class. In addition to his own competitions - the Bern Art Museum emerged from one in which he received no award, however , it is unclear whether he participated in the municipal high school - he was represented in numerous competition juries, in 1878 for the Paris World Exhibition , for the first Swiss National Exhibition 1883 in Zurich, the Basel market square in 1891, he judged the Bern theater (1897) and casino (1900).

While his public buildings were committed to a historicism in the style of the Italian Renaissance, the villas are in freer styles.

Works (selection)

  • Kunstmuseum , Bern, 1876–79
  • formerly Free Gymnasium , Bern, 1879–80
  • Church tower , Muri, 1881 (broken off)
  • Municipal high school , Bern, 1881–82
  • Villa Waldried , Muri, 1882–83
  • Villa Stucki , Bern, 1884–85
  • Villa Clairmont , Bern, 1890
  • Villa Brunnadernstr. , Bern, 1891
  • Kirchenfeld school building , Bern, 1891
  • Villa Muristr. , Bern, 1892
  • Terraced houses Dufourstr. , Bern, 1887–93
  • Terraced houses Jungfraustr. , Bern, 1887–93
  • Double villas Marienstr. , Bern, 1889–93
  • Villa Muristr. , Bern, 1894
  • Row houses Mottastr. , Bern, 1896
  • Terraced houses Kirchenfeldstr. , Bern, 1900

literature

  • Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher: Stettler, (Karl Ludwig Albert) Eugen . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century p. 516 f. Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Competition plans for the Bern Art Museum.In: Die Eisenbahn , Vol. 2/3 (1875), p. 157
  2. ↑ Assessment of the concourse plans for a high school building and a primary school in Bern. In: Die Eisenbahn, Vol. 14/15 (1881), p. 109 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Stettler, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stettler, Karl Ludwig Albert Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1913
Place of death Bern