Johann Jakob à Wengen

Johann Jakob à Wengen (born December 14, 1814 in Basel ; died September 28, 1875 there ) was a Swiss architect of historicism .

Education and career

After an apprenticeship in stonemason with Leonhard Müller in Basel from 1831 to 1836, studies are reported in Berlin , among other places . In 1843, à Wengen became master of the guild of Spinnwetter , the guild of building craftsmen. The work à Wengens still has to be worked on. His main works include the Wolfgottesacker and Kannenfeld cemeteries in Basel . The inventory of newer Swiss architecture also names Basel residential buildings, mainly apartment buildings, on Clarastrasse, Eulerstrasse, Friedensgasse, Hebelstrasse, Pfeffingerstrasse; the St. Alban suburb, the trenches and Schützenmattpark, and the classicist school building on Theodorskirchplatz is attributed to him.

Johann Jakob à Wengen was the son of the painter of the same name Johann Jakob à Wengen (1778–1831) and belonged to the circle of artists of the painter Hieronymus Hess .

literature

• Anne Nagel: Wengen, Johann Jakob à. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 565.
• Othmar Birkner, Hanspeter Rebsamen: INSA: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920. Vol. 2: Basel. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986. doi : 10.5169 / seals-3532