Franz Brochier

Franz Brochier

Franz Brochier (born May 16, 1852 in Munich , † September 22, 1926 in Nuremberg ) was the architect of King Ludwig II of Bavaria , of the Munich and Bamberg Arts and Crafts Association and director of the Royal School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg .

Life

Franz Brochier, who devoted himself especially to the arts and crafts, was valued by King Ludwig II of Bavaria for his precisely copied designs . At the same time he worked for the Munich arts and crafts. After Ludwig's death, he reoriented himself, as demonstrated by works for the Kunstgewerbeverein in Bamberg and northern Germany. As director of the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts from 1897, he promoted a reduced Heimatstil , less the then modern Art Nouveau .

Works (selection)

• Interior plans for Linderhof Palace and Herrenchimsee
• 1877 Design for an ebony cabinet with silver and ivory inlays with pictures of two muses on the doors. This cabinet was already on display a year before it was published in Munich at the art and art industry exhibition. In Bamberg, the design of the doors in 1892 was used as a template for a stained glass window.
• 1881 Honorary gifts from King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Kaiser Wilhelm for the 7th German Federal Shooting in Munich
• During his time in Munich, he made several designs for art locksmith work
• Table and display silver, candelabra and magnificent vases for the Hall of Mirrors in the New Herrenchiemsee Palace
• 1883 Writing utensils and a washing set made of Meissen porcelain for the bedroom of the small apartment in Herrenchimsee.
• 1886 silver urn for the heart of the late king to be kept in the Chapel of Mercy of Our Lady of Altötting
• Drafts for rooms in the Princely Residence Palace in Detmold
• 1886 a centerpiece for King Charles I of Romania
• 1888 Concepts for the "German National Applied Arts Exhibition" in Munich: Exhibition building for Theresienwiese, a temporary exhibition building on Isarkai and a building for the 1st power and work machine exhibition at Isartor.
• 1896 Design of five rooms for the Bamberg trade association for the 2nd Bavarian State Exhibition
• 1896 Equipment for a chapel (refurbishment of the Maternkapelle in Bamberg)
• 1898 restoration of the Rococo ballroom in the old town hall (Bamberg)
• 1893–1896 New construction of a baroque ballroom and common rooms for the Bückeburg Palace
• 1893 “Juror” for industrial products at the world exhibition in Chicago Several items based on his designs were also exhibited here, such as a piano and a wall fountain
• 1897 the fixed structures for the 12th German Federal Shooting
• 1897/1898 the Leykauf Nuremberg office building on Karolinenstrasse (destroyed in 1945)
• 1902–1903 the expansion of the Elisabethenkirche, Nuremberg
• 1911 Würzburg, St. Adalbero Church, design of the ciborium high altar
• 1896 Design of the anniversary drawer for the German Brewers' Association
• 1896 Late Gothic cup with a depiction of Nuremberg Castle on its lid, which has been a national symbol since the establishment of the Empire
• For the 80th birthday of the Prince Regent Luitpold 1901 design of a large trophy
• Brochier also excelled in particular with his many designs for handicrafts, such as jewelry, writing utensils, furniture, porcelain, centerpieces and cups, etc. His graphic work should not go unmentioned.

literature

• "Directory of all students who were in the school year 1862/63. in the German weekday schools of the royal capital and residence city of Munich have made themselves worthy of public awards or praiseworthy announcements: together with a preliminary report on the condition of these schools ”; 1862/63 (1863)
• Then, Thomas: "The treatment of ornamentation as well as the figurative is quite delightful". Two historicist interior fittings in Detmold Castle based on designs by the Munich architect Franz Brochier. Rosenland, magazine for Lippe history, Rheine, No. 6 April 2008.
• Die Prinzregentenzeit, catalog of the exhibition in the Munich City Museum, editors: Götz, Norbert, Schack-Simitzis, Clementine
• Diefenbacher, Michael, Rudolf Endres (editor): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg 2000; 2nd Edition.
• 125 years of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association, publisher: Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1976,
• Mundt, Barbara: Historicism. Decorative arts between Biedermeier and Art Nouveau, Munich 1981, pp. 328, 332.
• (Leitschuh, F.): Bamberg at the II. Bavarian State, Trade and Art Exhibition, Bamberg 1896.
• Schmeusser, Heinrich, memorandum to commemorate the participation of Upper Franconian industrialists and tradespeople in the Second Bavarian State, Industry, Trade and Art Exhibition in Nuremberg 189, Bayreuth 1896, p. 96 ff.
• Journal of the Kunstgewerbe-Verein in Munich 1877. Plates 17 and 18. “Draft for a barrier with inlaid work”.
• Franz Brochier: Princely residential palace, Bückeburg. Sheets for architecture and handicrafts, 13th year 1900, plate 118.
• Pese, Claus: The Nuremberg Art Nouveau Crafts, Nuremberg 1980
• Nuremberg artist lexicon. Editor: Grieb, Manfred, Munich 2007.
• Russ, Norbert: Professor Franz Brochier, director of the Royal School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg, architect of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, of the Munich and Bamberg Arts and Crafts Association. In: Frankenland 1/2019
• Schrötter, Georg: The Church of the Holy. Elisabeth in Nuremberg (former Teutonic Order Church). To commemorate its expansion and its reopening on December 6, 1903. With an appendix: The expansion of the Elisabethkirche by Jakob Hauck. With three illustrations. Nuremberg: Church Administration, 1903.
• Bahns, Jörn: Between Biedermeier and Art Nouveau. Furniture in historicism. Munich 1987, pp. 124 and 127.
• Gemelin, Leopold: The German arts and crafts at the time of the world exhibition in Chicago 1893. Paris 1893