Gustav Gull
Gustav Gull (born December 7, 1858 in Altstetten ; † June 10, 1942 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect of historicism .
Life
Gustav Gull came from a family of builders. He studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Zurich from 1876–1879 and attended courses at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Geneva from 1879–1880 . This was followed by an internship at Benjamin Recordon in Lausanne until 1882 . After a trip to Italy (1883/1884), he first entered into a partnership with Conrad von Muralt , with whom he built the main post office in Lucerne and the Lavater school in Zurich. In 1890 he received the first order from the city of Zurich to draw up a plan for a Swiss National Museum . From 1895 to 1900 he was a city architect in Zurich, after which he worked as an architecture professor at the Zurich Polytechnic until 1929.
With a few exceptions, his buildings are concentrated in Zurich. He significantly shaped the “Urania axis” Sihlporte – Uraniastrasse – Mühlegasse, to which the Oetenbach monastery fell victim. Only part of this project from his development plans for “Greater Zurich” was built. The realized parts of the office city “Urania” include the residential and commercial building with the Urania observatory as well as the office buildings I – IV.
The "Beatenbrücke", where the Mühlesteg runs today , and the "Stadthaus Lindenhof", for which the Schipfe district should have been demolished, remained unrealized. The “Zähringer piercing” planned on the other side of the Limmat , a boulevard across the old town from Zähringerplatz to Heimplatz and the “Heimplatz government building” also remained utopian .
Another building by Gull is the Zurich town house , for the construction of which the northern part of the Kratzquartier and the Fraumünster monastery were demolished; Gull integrated the rest of the cloister into the inner courtyard of the town house.
Gull's grave is in the Sihlfeld cemetery .
Works (selection)
- Main Post Office, Lucerne , 1887 (with Conrad von Muralt)
- Swiss National Museum , Zurich, 1892–1898; built in the style of a neo-Gothic castle
- " Villa Sihlberg ", Zurich, 1898
- Zurich town hall , 1898–1901
- Stauffacher Bridge , Zurich, 1899; House cladding of the reinforced concrete bridge by Robert Maillart
- "Villa Sonnenberg", Hochwachtstrasse 20, Winterthur, 1901–1902
- “Urania” restaurant and observatory , Zurich, 1905–1909
- “Aemtler” school complex, Zurich, 1908
- Municipal offices, Zurich, 1911–1914
- Dome and porches at the Polytechnic, Zurich, 1915–1924; changed the character of the original by Gottfried Semper built palace completely
Known students
literature
- Elisabeth Crettaz-Stürzel: Gustav Gull. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 4, 2006 , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- Cornelia Bauer: Gustav Gull. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. pp. 237 ff. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
- Hermann Herter: Gustav Gull. (Obituary). In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Vol. 120 (1942) Issue 24, pp. 296–298. ( Digitized version )
- Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Buildings (Ed.): Three conversion strategies. Gustav Gull's administrative buildings in Zurich. gta Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-85676-151-6 .
supporting documents
- ↑ Competition for a federal Post office in Lucerne. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Vol. 6 (1885) Issue 19, pp. 12-13. On-line
- ↑ Martin Kilias in the Tages-Anzeiger on July 25, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Gull in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gustav Gull. In: arch INFORM .
- Portrait of Gustav Gull in the ETH library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gull, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1942 |
| Place of death | Zurich |