Joseph Boesch

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Back of the town hall in Winterthur

Joseph Bösch (born May 11, 1839 in Ebnat ; died November 10, 1922 in Weesen ) was a Swiss architect who - as a Semper student who was heavily influenced by him - was Winterthur's city ​​architect from 1871 to 1875 and then professor at the newly founded Technikum was.

Education and career

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and cabinet maker, Bösch studied at the Polytechnic in Zurich as one of the first students from Sempers and the university from 1858 to 1861 . After graduating from Semper, he was employed by him until 1865; He worked there as a construction manager for the interior work on the main building of the newly founded university and for the attached observatory. From 1866 he was the construction manager of the Swiss Northeast Railway for three years . Study visits to Vienna and Budapest followed. In 1871 he was appointed city architect of Winterthur, an office which he held until 1875. He then became a professor at the Technikum Winterthur, which was newly founded in 1874, for thirty years until he retired .

Bösch's designs - the main works include the renovation of the old town hall and the Neuwiesen schoolhouse - show Semper's strong influence. The town hall, for example, which was given new uses after the construction of the town hall , was given sgraffiti in line with Semper’s architectural historical assumptions regarding Pompeii , and otherwise uses neo-Renaissance forms. As an architecture teacher at the Technikum, he also primarily occupied his students with studying antiquity and the Renaissance.

Works (selection)

  • Mechanical silk weaving , Winterthur 1872–73
  • Winterthur town hall , renovation, Winterthur 1872–74
  • Neuwiesen school building , Winterthur 1875–76
  • Bösch residence , Winterthur 1882
  • Economy building , Tänikon 1883–88
  • Apartment building , Heiligbergstr 28, Winterthur 1887
  • Reformed Church Sulgen , renovation and steeple, Sulgen 1887–89

literature

  • Franziska Kaiser: Bösch, Joseph . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 72 f.
  • Martin Fröhlich: Gottfried Semper as a designer and design teacher: materials for design theory in the 19th century from the Zurich Semper archive. Zurich 1974. doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-000333430

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Bösch began his studies in the fourth year of the university, making him the 14th student in the first course. Martin Fröhlich: Gottfried Semper as a designer and design teacher: materials for design theory in the 19th century from the Zurich Semper archive. Zurich 1974. p. 246
personal data
SURNAME Boesch, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebnat SG
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1922
Place of death Weesen