Henry Berthold von Fischer
Henry Berthold von Fischer , also Henry Berchtold von Fischer , (born January 7, 1861 in Bern , † June 28, 1949 ibid) was a Swiss architect.
Life
He came from the Bernese patrician family von Fischer and was a descendant of Beat Fischer . In 1878 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and after completing his studies he traveled a. a. to Egypt . In 1887 he became an employee of the architect Heinrich Viktor von Segesser (1843–1900) in Lucerne and converted there - like his sister, who had become a nun in the Order of Vincent de Paul after the death of her husband - to the Catholic Church . He then founded his own architectural office in Bern, where he initially accompanied the construction of the Trinity Church planned by Segesser and then built numerous villas . His handwriting still characterizes the Kirchenfeld district today .
Fischer was an Honorary and Devotion Grand Cross Bailli of the Order of Malta . In 1937 Maximilian von Sachsen celebrated a mass in Fischer's private chapel on Knight's Day of the Swiss Order of Malta .
Fischer's estate is in the Burger Library in Bern .
plant
Fischer's style is neo-baroque and is influenced by the Bernese architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries, which Fischer got to know intensively when renovating castles and country estates. One of his main works is a villa at Thunstrasse 60 in Bern, which was built from 1897 to 1898 under the name Le Souvenir for Max von Fischer and has been the seat of the Apostolic Nuncio since 1932 . The previous building of the Antoniuskirche in Bümpliz, demolished in 1959, with the still preserved rectory, was built by Fischer. Another work is the neo-baroque renovation of the “ New Wenkenhof ” in Riehen near Basel from 1918 to 1921 for the client Alexander Clavel-Respinger.
literature
- Peter Honegger: Fischer, Henry Berthold von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Henry Berchtold de Fischer: L'ordre Souverain de Malte. Aperçu de son histoire et de son activité aux temps présents et passés , Genève 1927.
- Conrad von Mandach : Henry Berthold von Fischer, a Bernese architect , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde 1951. online
Individual evidence
- ^ K. Rieder: Networks of Conservatism. Bernese civic community and patriciate in the 19th and 20th centuries , Bern 2008, pp. 317–318, with reference to the Swiss Commands of the Order of St. John (ed.): History of the Swiss Commands of the Order of St. John (Ed . Peter Ziegler), Wädenswil 1999, p 45
- ↑ Henry Berchtold von Fischer's estate in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
Web links
- Henry Berthold von Fischer in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Henry Berthold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Henry Berchtold von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1949 |
| Place of death | Bern |