Johann Albert Lüthi

Grave of Johann Albert Lüthi in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Johann Albert Lüthi (born February 24, 1858 in Hottingen ; † December 11, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Swiss glass painter who also worked as an architect .

Live and act

Education and activity

He was born in Hottingen, which has been part of the city of Zurich since 1893 . His place of residence / hometown was Flawil (SG) in the canton of St. Gallen . From 1876 to 1880 he attended the Polytechnic in Zurich, today's ETH Zurich . In the last two years of his life, Lüthi was director of the Zurich School of Applied Arts from 1901 .

Work

Johann Albert Lüthi made glass paintings for the Henneberg Gallery in Zurich, for the Michaelskirche in Zug , for the Zurich Museum of Applied Arts and for the Christ Church in Karlsruhe. He also created designs for the windows of the Lukaskirche Dresden and for three round windows of the Reformed Church in Rorschach . Albert Lüthi created a colored window with the poetic title Blossom of Work in the Wake of True Peace as a German contribution to the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . It later found its place in the so-called Kapellchen , the vaulted vestibule of the Ratskeller in the neo-Gothic citizen hall of the Frankfurt Roman . He created the colored glass windows for the chapel of the Senckenberg Foundation's community hospital in Frankfurt am Main.

He designed 22 coats of arms for the cantons of Switzerland for the parliament building in Bern . The coats of arms of the then 22 cantons are grouped radially around the mosaic (the half cantons each share a coat of arms). These stained glass by Johann Albert Lüthi, in conjunction with the mosaic, symbolize the centralizing function of the federal government on the one hand, and the mutual dependence of the federal government and the cantons on the other.

Lüthi made the three windows in the chancel for the German Evangelical Church on the island of Capri, the architect of which was the Dane Aage von Kauffmann (1852–1922). They are a foundation of Countess Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen (1901) in memory of their son Leopold, who died there at an early age.

Frankfurt location

Albert Lüthi married Rose Miller (1863–1918). His parents-in-law were Friedrich Miller (1832-1892), founder and partner of a company specializing in machine construction, and his wife Rosa Müller (* 1844). Shortly before his death, Friedrich Miller moved into a villa in the elegant, newly developed residential area of Frankfurt-Bockenheim , in which Albert Lüthi also had his office.

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  Dome of the Federal Palace in Bern, coat of arms of the 22 cantons by Albert Lüthi

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  Christ Church in Karlsruhe with glass windows by Albert Lüthi

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  Evangelical St. Luke Church in Dresden

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  Catholic Church St. Michael Zug

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  Former Bürgerhospital Frankfurt, right next to it the hospital chapel, before moving to Nordend

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  Citizens' hall of the Frankfurt Roman, on the left the entrance to the Ratskeller with chapel including glass windows by Albert Lüthi

literature

• Karl Moser: Albert Lüthi - architect, painter, glass painter (1858–1903). New Year's Paper 1906 of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Verlag Fäsi & Beer, 1905.
• Heinrich Ludwig: History of the village and the city of Bockenheim. Frankfurt am Main 1940, p. 302 f.
• Franz Lerner (Ed.): The active Frankfurt in the economic life of three centuries (1648–1955): At the same time a manual of the old Frankfurt companies. Frankfurt am Main 1955, p. 217.
• G. Gall, EA Haberstroh: 1863-1963. 100 years of Maschinenfabrik Moenus AG. Neustadt / Weinstrasse 1963.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Lerner:  Miller, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 520 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Tapan Bhattacharya: Lüthi, Johann Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Lüthi's glass window in the Christ Church in Karlsruhe: [1] , [2] , [3]
• Round window of the church in Rorschach, based on Lüthi's design , on the website of the evang.-ref. Rorschach parish
• Lüthi's window in the German Evangelical Church on Capri on the website of the "Friends of the German Evangelical Church on Capri eV"
• Lüthi's stained glass window title: He created the flower of work in the wake of true peace as a German contribution to the Paris World Exhibition (1900) for the so-called chapel:
• The neo-Gothic chapel in the Römer - a total work of art of historicism ,
• Lüthis stained glass window for the chapel of the Senckenberchen Foundation's community hospital (ISG Institute for City History of the City of Frankfurt am Main, inventory V48, signature 830, deposit)