Johann Joachim Brenner

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The Frauenfeld cantonal library, formerly the cantonal school, the first building in Brenner, completed in 1851.

Johann Joachim Brenner (born October 3, 1815 in Weinfelden ; died April 11, 1886 in Frauenfeld ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Brenner probably did an apprenticeship first, presumably he was trained as a stonemason in Zurich. In any case, he enrolled at Zurich University in 1833 and attended the College of General Civil and Higher Architecture under Karl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg - there was no academic architectural training in Switzerland at that time. The young architect probably stayed in Zurich until 1839, at any rate he was a founding member of the Zurich section of the SIA and also paid the membership fees the following year. From 1839 onwards, as documents from the estate attest, he was in Geneva for further studies, where Gaetano Durelli (1789–1855), who came from the tradition of the Milan Accademia di Brera , attended the municipal drawing school for the 'École d'ornement et d 'architecture' had expanded. From the Geneva period between 1839 and 1847 there are drawings of trips to Northern Italy and France (Milan, Pisa, Florence, Nîmes, Marseille) as well as from several trips to various German cities (Munich, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Kiel, Berlin, Naumburg, Erfurt, Frankfurt etc.).

In 1847 he received his first major order from the capital of his home canton: the canton school in Frauenfeld, which was completed by 1851, but was not expanded until 1857 to 1858 as a result of a Volksvetos in 1850. In 1850 at the latest, he finally settled in Frauenfeld when he took up the post of cantonal road and building inspector, a position that probably allowed him to also do private assignments on the side, but which required him to live in Frauenfeld. In total, he only held this position for three years, after which he was self-employed until the end of his life. In 1857 he married the Weinfeld pastor's daughter Regula Denzler, he was the father of the architects Albert (1860–1939) and Joachim Wilhelm (1867–1924).

Probably starting from his position as building inspector, Brenner worked on a large part of the spectrum of public construction contracts in the course of his professional life, from building bridges to government buildings. A good part of his new buildings consisted of schools, rectories and church buildings. In addition, however, he built factories, workers' houses, residential buildings and villas, mostly in Thurgau and partly in neighboring St. Gallen. After the flood of 10./11. In June 1876, when the Murg overflowed its banks, he also submitted plans for a river correction.

Works (selection)

Buildings
  • Cantonal school , Frauenfeld 1847–51
  • Factory building Raschle & Co , Wattwil 1855/1864
  • Bridge over the Lauche , Stettfurt 1857
  • Altermatt weaving mill , Frauenfeld 1858–60, 1868
  • Bühler weaving mill , Weinfelden 1858
  • Lieber house , Frauenfeld 1860
  • Schoolhouse , Aadorf 1861
  • Promenade school house , Frauenfeld 1862–63, demolished in 1966
  • Barracks , Frauenfeld 1863
  • St. Alexander , Catholic Church, Aadorf 1863–65
  • Prison buildings , Tobel 1863/1880
  • Johann Joachim Brenner residence , Frauenfeld 1864
  • Seeschulhaus , Steckborn 1866
  • Parity Church , Sirnach 1865–74
  • Government building , Frauenfeld 1866
  • Kurzdorf schoolhouse , Frauenfeld 1870
  • Schoolhouse , Salenstein 1874
  • Secondary school , Altnau 1875–77
  • Schoolhouse , Zihlschlacht 1876–77
  • Rectory , Pfyn 1875–77
  • Rosenberg residence , Frauenfeld 1882–83
  • Villa von Streng , Sirnach 1883–84
  • Villa Friedau , Frauenfeld 1884–85

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the new buildings in the catalog of works in
    Gabriela Güntert: They built the Thurgau: The Brenner Architects. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1369-7 .
  2. ^ Hanspeter Rebsamen: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Frauenfeld. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 4 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01398-4 , p. 127 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-5494 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed October 7, 2015]).
  3. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 134 ( e-periodica.ch )
  4. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 127 ( e-periodica.ch )
  5. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 109 ( e-periodica.ch )
  6. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 135 ( e-periodica.ch )
  7. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 128 ( e-periodica.ch )
  8. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 135 ( e-periodica.ch )
  9. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 148 ( e-periodica.ch )
  10. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 140 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinfelden
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1886
Place of death Frauenfeld