Karl Egender

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Albisriederhaus from 1935 (with Wilhelm Müller)
Hallenstadion in Zurich-Oerlikon, built 1938–39 (with Wilhelm Müller and Bruno Giacometti)
Globus department store from 1969
Entrance and tower of the Johanneskirche in Basel

Karl Egender (born September 25, 1897 in Burzweiler ; † September 18, 1969 in Meilen ) was a Swiss architect . Together with Adolf Steger , he ran the Steger and Egender architectural office , a protagonist of New Building in Zurich , from around 1922 to 1932 .

education

Karl Egender, who grew up in Zurich, first completed an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman with the Wassmer brothers in Zurich and then worked for a year in Biel. In 1920/1921 he was a guest student with Paul Bonatz at the Technical University of Stuttgart , before he went into business for himself and soon after began the partnership with Adolf Steger . He confidently did without a diploma.

Steger and Egender

The two architects established themselves from the mid-1920s with larger construction contracts that often emerged from competitions. First and foremost, the main work here is the trade school and arts and crafts museum in Zurich, but also the Volkshaus Limmathaus , also located in the industrial area nearby.

Works with changing partners from 1932

Egender continued to run a successful office for about four decades, which also attracted many young architects who later made their own careers. Wilhelm Müller was his partner in the 1930s. Important employees included Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt and Bruno Giacometti . Significant works in the 1930s were the Hallenstadion in Oerlikon (1938–39), whose wide-span steel structure creates the monumental effect and the impression of a sports palace, and the Johanneskirche in Basel, where the structure is also exposed. After the Second World War, Egender became a specialist in department store architecture.

Egender, who also went public as a painter in his early years, was married to the painter Trudy Wintsch.

Work (selection)

Buildings by the Steger and Egender offices until 1932
  • Specialized exhibition for the Swiss hospitality industry , Zurich, 1927
  • Buildings in the zoological garden in Zurich 1928–1931, (canceled)
  • Müller / Bänninger double house , Wunderlistrasse, Zurich 1929
  • Eglisee apartment block , WOBA , Basel 1929–1930
  • Lido , Küsnacht, 1930
  • Badehaus Sponagel , Feldmeilen 1930
  • Limmathaus , Zurich, 1930–1931
  • Trade school and arts and crafts museum , Zurich, 1930–1933
after 1932
  • Albisriederhaus , Zurich, 1934–1935 (with Wilhelm Müller)
  • Johanneskirche , Basel, 1934–1936 (with Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt)
  • Bänninger sculptor's studio , Zurich, 1935
  • Bad Allenmoos , competition project, Zurich, 1935 (with Wilhelm Müller)
  • Kongresshaus , competition project, Zurich, 1936 (with Wilhelm Müller)
  • Hallenstadion Oerlikon , Zurich, 1938–1939 (with Burckhardt and Giacometti)
  • Terrace restaurant and fashion department , National Exhibition, Zurich, 1939 (with Bruno Gicometti)
  • Baur's Building , Colombo , 1939-41
  • Sonnengarten settlement , Zurich, around 1946
  • Sihlgarten office building in Zurich, 1947–1948
  • Breuninger department store , Stuttgart , 1951–1959
  • Im Gut residential colony , Zurich, 1953–1956
  • Engelhorn & Sturm department store in Mannheim , 1955
  • Luggweg settlement , Zurich, 1959–1960
  • Saalbau Stadthof 11 , Zurich-Oerlikon 1962–1965
  • Department store Gebrüder Leffers , Bremen , 1968–1969
  • Globus provisional - department store pavilion in Zurich, 1960–1961
  • Globus department store , Zurich, 1967
  • Leffers department store in Bremen , Faulenstrasse 54–62, demolished around 2005.

literature

  • Leza Dosch: Steger and Egender. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland, 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 505 f.
  • Max Aeschlimann: architect Karl Egender 70 years . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 85 , no. 45 , 1967, p. 818 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-69574 .
  • Hans Fischli: Egender, Karl (obituary) . In: The work . tape 56 , no. 11 , 1969, p. 739 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Jegher: Egender, Karl . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 88 , no. 4 , 1979, p. 83 ( online ).
  2. ^ NN: An indoor stadium for Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 110 , no. 17 , 1937, pp. 210 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-49138 .
  3. ^ NN: Reformed St. Johannes Church, Basel: Architects K. Egender & EF Burckhardt BSA, Zurich . In: The work . tape 25 , no. 11 , 1938, pp. 306 ff .
  4. ↑ The wide world of the department store. Globus is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a book and special offers. Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 1, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Egender, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Burzweiler
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 1969
Place of death miles