Johann Georg Müller (architect)

Johann Georg Müller

Johann Georg Müller (born September 15, 1822 in Mosnang , Canton St. Gallen , † May 2, 1849 in Vienna ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

The son of the landlord, district administrator and owner of a colored weaving mill, Johann Baptist Müller and Maria Theresia Müller born. Glanzmann, completed an apprenticeship with the St. Gallen architect Felix Wilhelm Kubly from 1837 . On his recommendation, Müller went to Munich in 1839 to gain further experience in Georg Friedrich Ziebland's architectural office and in 1840 to visit the Munich Academy of Fine Arts for a year . A memorable experience for Müller was his trip to Italy from 1842 to 1844 as a companion of the wealthy Basel native Rudolf Merian , which took him to the monuments of Tuscany , Rome and Sicily , confronted him with questions of art theory and had him fill his sketchbooks with high-quality watercolors . At that time, Müller also found interest in the completion project for the Florentine cathedral facade , which kept him busy until his untimely death.

He spent the years from 1844 to 1847 freelance, mainly in Wil SG . Outstanding works of this time were the participation in the competition for a Swiss national monument (out of competition with a gold medal), the planning of the reformed church St. Laurenzen in St. Gallen and never executed designs for the buildings of the Zurich-Bodenseebahn .

Encouraged by Ludwig Förster, Müller moved to Vienna in 1847, where in 1848 winning the competition for the new construction of the Altlerchenfeld parish church resulted in a great success and a permanent position as a builder of this church. Müller was not able to take up this position any more than the professorship for architecture at the Vienna Engineering Academy, because he had previously succumbed to tuberculosis .

Even if it was rather awkward when it came to practical building issues, Müller was one of the most artistically diverse and talented Swiss architects of the 19th century. He had found his ideal in medieval , especially Gothic, architecture without wanting to copy this style faithfully.

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  Mark's Tower and Doge's Palace , Venice

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  Never realized facade of the cathedral of Florence

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  Rear side of the courtyard in Wil

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  St. Laurenzen in St. Gallen

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  Altlerchenfelderkirche , Vienna

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• Benno Schubiger: Johann Georg Müller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Johann Georg Müller . In: New Year's Gazette for the year 1860 , volume 20. Pp. 1-16.

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