Karl Koller (architect)

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Engagement picture, 1903

Karl Gottlieb Koller (born April 16, 1873 in Ragaz ; † February 1, 1946 in St. Moritz ) was a Swiss architect . He worked primarily as the architect of numerous larger hotels in the canton of Graubünden . Among other things, he designed the Hotel Waldhaus .

Education and life

After studying for a semester at the Technikum Winterthur, Koller began an apprenticeship with Chiodera and Tschudy at the age of 17 , where he worked until the turn of the century. At the age of twenty he received construction management tasks for the office's projects in Graubünden and Valtellina . In 1900, with his own office in St. Moritz, he was commissioned to build the largest hotel on the square, the Grand Hotel there. In addition to other hotel buildings, Koller built the hospitals in Scuol, Sent, Samedan and Poschiavo and, after the First World War, numerous private houses.

The Suvretta House, St. Moritz, around 1913

Works

  • 1898–1900 Hotel Schweizerhof, Vulpera
    Schweizerhof Vulpera, architect Karl Koller, 1900
  • 1901–1903 Parkhotel, Vitznau
  • 1902 Villa Engadina, Vulpera
    Villa Engiadina Vulpera, architect Karl Koller, 1902
  • 1902 Villa Post, Vulpera
    Villa Post Vulpera, architect Karl Koller, 1902
  • 1902–1905 Grand Hotel, St. Moritz; Burned down in 1943
  • 1904 Lyceum Alpinum , Zuoz
  • 1905–1906 New Posthotel, St. Moritz
  • 1905–1908 Castle Hotel, Pontresina ; Partially burned down in 1981, reconstruction in 1985
  • 1906 Hotel Bristol, Bad Ragaz
  • 1906–1908 Hotel Waldhaus , Sils-Maria
  • 1908 Hospital, Sent
  • 1908 Hospital, Scuol
  • 1910 Old District Hospital, Samedan
  • 1909–1911 Kurhaus, Val Sinestra
  • 1911–1912 Hotel Suvretta House , St. Moritz
  • around 1915 Hospital, Poschiavo
  • around 1920 Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei , Münchenstein
  • 1927 Chesa Spuonda, St. Moritz

literature

  • Isabelle Rucki: Koller, Karl . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 189 f.
  • Isabelle Rucki: The hotel in the Alps. The history of the Upper Engadine hotel architecture from 1860 to 1914. Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture Zurich 1989 ISBN 3-250-50108-5 pp. 155–157.
  • Mengia Spreiter-Gallin: Love and Passion: Family saga by Clara Koller-Marbach and the St. Moritz hotel architect Karl Koller. Montabella, St. Moritz 2009, ISBN 978-3-907067-38-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koller, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koller, Karl Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Ragaz
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1946
Place of death St. Moritz