Johann Christoph Kunkler

Johann Christoph Kunkler (born December 18, 1813 in St. Gallen ; † November 2, 1898 there ) was a Swiss architect.

Life

Johann Christoph Kunkler, father of Gottfried Julius Kunkler and Hedwig Kunkler , studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1832–34 and then until 1836 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts .

In 1837 he started working for Gustav Albert Wegmann in Zurich. In 1838 he opened his own office in St. Gallen and subsequently worked mainly in his hometown.

Kunkler was President of the Swiss Society for the Preservation of Historical Art Monuments and from 1889–95 of the Federal Art Commission . He advocated the preservation of Swiss antiquities. He bequeathed his library to the Vadiana St. Gallen cantonal library .

Works (selection)

• Aadorf : Catholic Church of St. Alexander . New construction using the tower shaft from 1478 together with Joachim Brenner (1863–65).
• Alt St. Johann : Evangelical Church (1861).
• Bad Ragaz : drinking and bathing establishment (1867/68).
• Lichtensteig : parity church in neo-Gothic style (1866–68, broken off in 1968).
• Rapperswil SG : Reformed Church (1839–42).
• Roggwil TG : Mammertshofen Castle : Extension buildings: Northwest building, the battlement wall with neo-Gothic pointed arch and the bridge (1852).
• St. Gallen :
  • Citizens Hospital (1840–45).
  • St. Laurence's Church : reconstruction (1850–54).
  • City theater on the Bohl in neo-baroque style (1855–57; demolished 1971).
  • Schoolhouse Blumenau (1867–69; renovated and rebuilt 1998–2002).
  • Nature and art museum in the Neo-Renaissance style, one of the oldest museums and at the same time one of the most important neo-classical buildings in Switzerland (1873–77; 1987 - after years of decline - renovated and expanded by Marcel Ferrier ).
  • Helvetia building on Helvetiaplatz in the classicist style (1876–78, together with his son; demolished in 1977, today the cantonal bank is located there).
• Zurich : Administration building of the accident insurance company "Zurich" on Mythenquai (1899/1901; together with his son).

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  Village swimming pool in Bad Ragaz

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  Mammertshofen Castle with a neo-Gothic gate

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  St. Laurence Church , St. Gallen

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  Administration building of the accident insurance company "Zurich", 1905

literature

• Kunkler, Christoph (Johann Ch.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 107 .
• Peter Röllin: St. Gallen - City Change and City Experience in the 19th Century. VGS, St. Gallen 1981, ISBN 978-3-7291-1014-4 .
• Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 978-3-7643-5261-5 , pp. 325f.
• Ernst Ziegler (Red.): The St. Gallen Citizens Hospital. A building by Johann Christoph Kunkler. Bürgerspital Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen ~ 2000.
• Renate Treydell: Kunkler, Christoph (Johann Christoph) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 82, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023187-8 , p. 276.

Web links

• Peter Röllin: Kunkler, Johann Christoph. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Literature by and about Johann Christoph Kunkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Blumenau schoolhouse in St Gallen (accessed April 20, 2009)
• Building Department of the City of St. Gallen: renovation and conversion of the secondary school in Blumenau. (PDF; 2 MB) November 2005, p. 5 , accessed on April 20, 2009 . 
• Reto Voneschen: When Bohl was called Theaterplatz. Tagblatt , July 12, 2007, accessed on April 20, 2009 (with picture around 1920). 
• Portrait of the Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen. Retrieved April 20, 2009 . 
• The reformed church in Rapperswil
• Registration entry for Johann Christoph Kunkler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cantonal Library Vadiana St. Gallen