Hans Fischli

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Schlehstud House in Obermeilen, an early work
The Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen (laying of the foundation stone: April 28, 1946)
Gwad model estate in Wädenswil
The folded northeast facade of Feller AG in Horgen
Hangenmoos settlement, Wädenswil

Hans Fischli (born October 9, 1909 in Zurich ; † April 1, 1989 in Bern , legal resident in Zurich) was a Swiss architect , painter and sculptor .

Life

Hans Fischli, son of the geometer Emil Fischli, trained as a draftsman in Zurich between 1925 and 1928 . Immediately afterwards he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau until 1929 . There he attended courses with Josef Albers , Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer and made the acquaintance of Max Bill . Hans Fischli is the father of Peter Fischli from the former artist duo Fischli / Weiss .

architect

As a result, Hans Fischli worked as a draftsman in the office of Rudolf Steiger and Carl Hubacher in Zurich, where he was involved in the planning of the Neubühl housing estate , the Zett House in Zurich and the Bella Lui sanatorium in Crans-Montana. This happened before he opened his own architectural office in 1933, which lasted until 1976. In the same year, on behalf of his father, he built the Schlehstud studio-dwelling , a steel-filled wooden structure in the spirit of New Building . As with the Ländli bathhouse, wood as a building material subsequently became a trademark of Fischli's architecture, even more than the commitment to the Bauhaus style: while the Gwad settlement in Wädenswil was built using the modern vocabulary of forms during the Second World War, Fischli built for the client a few years later - and users of the Pestalozzi Children's Village in traditional Appenzell style.

In the 1950s he created a filigree factory building for Feller AG in Horgen , in which “the expedient form [has an ornamental effect] on the outside and thus promotes the company's image. The steel framework, recognizable like a skeleton through the folded glass wall, and the flush-hinged window strips dematerialize the shell, so that the wall sections appear thin as paper. "

Since the popular Swiss national exhibition Landi in 1939 , where Fischli was adjunct to the chief architect Hans Hofmann , he has devoted himself to exhibition design several times. Among other things, he was responsible for the Zurich Cantonal Trade and Agriculture Exhibition (ZÜKA) in 1947 and last planned the Swiss pavilion at the XIII in 1964. Triennial in Milan.

Painter, draftsman and sculptor

Based on his graphic and drawing-based Bauhaus training, he had his first studio exhibition in 1931. Hans Fischli belonged to the Paris artist group Abstraction-Création from 1933 to 1936 and was a founding member of the Allianz group in 1937 . On the occasion of the XIX. At the National Art Exhibition in Bern in 1936 he was given the opportunity to publish his own paintings in the architecture magazine Werk .

In his graphics , drawings and panel paintings with a relief-like surface, influences from Otto Meyer-Amden and Piet Mondrian, among others , can be seen. From 1944 onwards, at the suggestion of Hans Aeschbacher , Fischli was also active as a sculptor, working among other things sandstone , granite and marble blocks , which he changed only slightly in their original form.

Hans Fischli belonged to the Swiss Werkbund since 1933 and to the Swiss Architects' Association since 1940 . From 1944 to 1949 Hans Fischli was co-initiator and builder of the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen and from 1954 to 1961 director of the School of Applied Arts and the Museum of Applied Arts in Zurich.

In 1979 he was awarded the City of Zurich Art Prize. Hans Fischli was married three times. He was the father of the artist Peter Fischli .

Works (selection)

buildings
  • Ländli bathhouse , Bäch SZ , 1932.
  • Schlehstud House , residential and studio building, Obermeilen , 1933.
  • Metallwarenfabrik P. and W. Blattmann , Wädenswil , 1934.
  • Gwad settlement , Wädenswil, 1943–1944.
  • Pestalozzi Children's Village , Trogen AR, 1945–1949.
  • Bucheggplatz Kindergarten , Zurich, 1946.
  • Factory building Feller AG , Horgen , 1952–1953.
  • Fischli house type , Wädenswil, 1953.
  • Basel Furniture Cooperative , business and warehouse, Basel, 1956–1957.
  • Gulmenmatt , housing estate, Wädenswil, 1960–1962.
  • Villa Guggenbühl , Herrliberg , 1961–1962.
  • Villa Feller , Horgen, 1963–1965.
  • Hangenmoos housing estate , Wädenswil, 1968–1973 (demolished in 2019).
  • Fellergut , Bern-Bümpliz , 1968–1978.

literature

  • Karl Jost: Hans Fischli: architect, painter, sculptor (1909–1989). In: Documents on modern Swiss architecture. gta Verlag, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3856760431 .
  • Karl Jost: Hans Fischli. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .
  • Christa Zeller: “The days of building artists are over” - On the architectural work of Hans Fischli. (Obituary). In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen , Vol. 76 (1989). Pp. 14-17. doi : 10.5169 / seals-57574
  • Biographical lexicon of Swiss art. 2 volumes, 1998, page 329 f.
  • Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st edition , December 2005, ISBN 3-76534142-8 , Vol. 9, p. 304.

Web links

Commons : Hans Fischli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wooden houses in Meilen and Herrliberg: Architect H. Fischli. In: Das Werk , Vol. 23 (1936) Issue 10. pp. 302–305.
  2. ^ W. Blattmann: The "Gwad" settlement in Wädenswil - the workers' own home. In: Das Werk , Vol. 30 (1943) Heft 7, p. 221 ff. Doi : 10.5169 / seals-24292 as well as
    Hans Fischli: Siedlung Gwad in Wädenswil: built in 1942/44 by H. Fischli, architect BSA and O. Stock SWB, architect SIA, Zurich. In: The work , Vol. 32 (1945) Issue 9 pp 271 et seq. Doi : 10.5169 / seals-25696
  3. ↑ Hans Fischli: Extension buildings of the Adolf Feller AG company. in Horgen: Hans Fischli, architect BSA, Zurich. In: Das Werk , vol. 40 (1953) issue 10. pp. 173–305. doi : 10.5169 / seals-30978
  4. ↑ Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 1: Northeast and Central Switzerland. Werk Verlag, Zurich 1996. p. 119. ISBN 3-909145-11-6 .
  5. ↑ Hans Fischli. In: Das Werk , vol. 23 (1936) issue 8, p. 242 f. doi : 10.5169 / seals-19922
  6. ↑ Association news . Swiss Werkbund. In: Werk . tape 20 , no. 2 , 1933, pp. XXV ( online ).
  7. ↑ 33rd General Assembly of the BSA in Lugano . In: Werk . tape 27 , no. 9 , 1940, p. XIV ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fischli, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1989
Place of death Bern