Joseph Bühlmann

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Joseph Bühlmann (newer spelling: Josef Bühlmann ) (born April 28, 1844 in Grosswangen , Canton Lucerne , Switzerland ; † October 29, 1921 in Munich ) was a Swiss and German painter , architect and university professor .

Education and life

Joseph Bühlmann came to Munich as a Swiss citizen in 1863 and studied under Ludwig Lange at the building school of the Art Academy until 1866 . He then went on a study trip to Northern Italy and Florence with Emil Lange , his teacher's son, and in 1873 initially accepted a position as a teacher at the secondary school in Lucerne . In 1875 he became assistant for painterly perspective and watercolor painting, from 1876 private lecturer for architectural drawing, watercolor painting and designing interior decorations at the Technical University in Munich . In 1878 he was appointed associate professor and in 1878 as full professor of architecture. From 1897 to 1919 he worked in Munich as a professor for structural design, perspective and interior decoration. He first became a Bavarian, then a German citizen. Bühlmann was an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. For his services to teaching and his scientific work. H. c. and appointed Privy Councilor.

In 1873, Joseph Bühlmann married Emma Stocker (1853–1882) in Switzerland. From this marriage came the sons Fritz Bühlmann and Otto Bühlmann, who were still born in Lucerne, and the daughter Sophie, who was born in Munich. After the early death of his wife in 1883 he married Maria Lang (1860–1929) a second time. The children of this marriage were the future architect and building historian Manfred Bühlmann (1885–1955) and Karl Bühlmann (* 1886). A daughter Hortense died in the year of her birth, 1888.

He died at the age of 77 and was buried in the Old Northern Cemetery in Munich, where his grave is still preserved.

Fonts

  • The use of sgraffito for facade decoration, illustrated and edited by Emil Lange and Joseph Bühlmann based on original Italian works . Berlin, Gropius, and Munich, Fleischmann, 1867. Digitized UB TU Berlin
  • The architecture of classical antiquity and the renaissance . 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1872–1876. 4th edition Esslingen 1913 digitized on HISPANA
  • Building form theory (style of Greek and Roman architecture: historical development of building types with special emphasis on their structural and formal design. ). Architecture manual , ed. by Joseph Durm, I. Theil, Volume 2, Darmstadt, Bergsträsser 1896 ( digitized version ). 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1901 ( archive.org ).
  • Design of the external and internal architecture . In: Josef Bühlmann, August Thiersch, Heinrich Wagner: The architectural composition (...). Architecture manual , ed. by Joseph Durm, Part IV, 1st half volume, Darmstadt, Bergsträsser 1883. 2nd edition. Darmstadt 1893, pp. 140-217 ( digitized version ). 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1904, pp. 142-278 ( archive.org ). 4th edition, Leipzig 1926.

Drafts and completed projects

  • 1877–1878: Design for the school building on Musegg in Lucerne
  • Illustrations for Jakob von Falke (Ed.): Hellas und Rom. A splendid piece of cultural history . Stuttgart 1879 (Reprint: Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-650-40097-0 ).
  • 1882: Participation in the 2nd competition for the Reichstag building in Berlin; with Emil Lange: 19 sheets: Architekturmuseum der TU München.
  • 1882: Gold medal on the occasion of the 1st Bavarian state, industrial, commercial and art exhibition in Nuremberg .
  • 1887–1888: Panorama Das alten Rom z.Zt. of the Emperor Constantine with Constantine's triumphal procession, carried out with Professor Alexander Wagner . Photogr. Reproduction (1.72 m length): Munich 1890. 22 sheets, 8 photos: Munich, Architekturmuseum der TU München.
  • 1896–1899 (with Heinrich Düll, Georg Pezold and Max Heilmaier): Construction of the Peace Column with the Angel of Peace at the end of Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich.
  • 1898: 1st prize for a design for a Kaiser Wilhelm monument submitted by Bühlmann together with the Munich sculptor Syrius Eberle .
  • 1908: Reconstruction of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus.
  • Collaboration on the design for the extension (1918) of the Technical University in Munich.
  • 1916: The Singerhaus at Marktplatz 34 in Basel - facade reliefs designed by J. Brühlmann In: Die schweizerische Baukunst , Vol. 10, 1918, pp. 71–72

literature

  • Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 84.
  • Festschrift of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects. Lucerne 1893, p. 82.
  • Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century . Leipzig, Berlin 1898, Volume 1, p. 93.
  • Yearbook for Fine Arts 1902, pp. 69/70.
  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon . Leipzig, Schulze 1905.
  • Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 1, 1905, p. 328.
  • Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries . 4th edition 1909, p. 339.
  • German construction newspaper. No. 48, 1914, p. 334 ff.
  • Necrology. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, 77/78, 1921, issue 27.
  • General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Literary establishment Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, Volume 1, p. 194.
  • Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 41st year, Berlin 1921, p. 576.
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 3, 1921, death list. Berlin 1921, p. 335.
  • F. Schumacher: stages of life. Memories of a builder . Stuttgart, Berlin 1935, pp. 91-92.
  • Bühlmann, Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911.
  • Bühlmann, Joseph. In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Volume 5 (Supplements). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 557.
  • General Artist Lexicon (AKL), Volume 15, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 .
  • Wolfgang Kehr: Leo von Klenze, Josef Bühlmann and Walter Hege's view of ancient Athens - painting and photography as directors of perception. In: Christian Fuhrmeister, Birgit Jooss (Ed.): Isar / Athens. Greek artists in Munich - German artists in Greece. Publications of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, Volume XX in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and the research group "Research on Artist Education". Munich 2008, pp. 58-59; Fig. P. 7: Josef Bühlmann: Athens from the east side at the time of Emperor Hadrian, around 1876, wood engraving, 26.5 × 16.5 cm. From: Jakob von Falke: Hellas und Rom. A cultural history of classical antiquity. Stuttgart 1876–1880, 1st episode around 1876, 106 verso.
  • Bühlmann, Fritz. In: Siegfried Weiß: Desired career art. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 416-420.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1874-1956; Architect and master builder in Munich
  2. ↑ 1875-1951; Chemist and entomologist in Munich
  3. ↑ 1876-1933; mated Buchner; Drawing teacher in Munich
  4. ↑ the architect Emil Bühlmann (* 1888) named in Munich address books, could have been another son of Joseph Bühlmann (and then a twin brother of Hortense).
  5. ↑ Boris Schübler: School buildings nike-kultur.ch (PDF; Fig.)
  6. ↑ Since the model was not yet completed when Eberle died in 1903, the academy professor Wilhelm von Rümann in Munich was entrusted with producing a new design; see. Georg von Schuh (Hrsg.): The city of Nuremberg in the anniversary year 1906. Contributions to the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg . Nuremberg 1906, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Bühlmann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühlmann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss and German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Big cheeks
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1921
Place of death Munich