Kaspar Ritter (master builder)

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Kaspar Ritter (born October 17, 1863 in Egg , Vorarlberg ; † 1954 there ) was an Austrian cabinet maker and master builder. He is considered a representative of modernity in the Bregenzerwald around 1900.

Life

He was a cabinetmaker, planner and site manager of the Bregenzerwald Railway and played a key role in the introduction of solid construction in the Bregenzerwald.

Kaspar Ritter dealt like hardly anyone else in the then rural area with contemporary artistic styles. The holy grave , the pews and confessionals in the parish church of Egg (1900), as well as the pews and the breast paneling of the parish church in Großdorf go back to him. He planned his own house, Villa Ritter, and house no. 499 in Egg. A strong professional and friendly connection to Johann Bertolini is reflected in joint construction companies such as the 1892 brickworks house in Bezau , which was built entirely with our own bricks, in the Löwensaal (1894) and in the station restoration (1908) in Egg, sections of the Bregenz Forest Railway (1901/02), the E-Werk (1906) and the Rainertobel Bridge (1911) in Egg, where Ritter was responsible as a planner, site manager or for the interior work. In 1927 he took over the construction management of the war memorial in Egg, based on a design by the sculptor Kaspar Albrecht , Au .

Villa Ritter

In 1899, after attending the World Exhibition in Paris , Ritter planned his house in Egg in the style of a bourgeois villa with a flat mansard hipped roof and curved gable bay window , which was originally framed by gable acroteries in the form of vases. The facade is adorned with neo-baroque plaster decor . For the interior decoration, Ritter resorted to Art Nouveau elements and was thus in line with his time.

  • Villa Ritter, Egg, exterior view, around 1910

  • Villa Ritter, Egg, exterior view, 2007

  • Villa Ritter, Egg, interior view, around 1910

  • Villa Ritter, Egg, interior view, around 1910

Holy grave

Holy Sepulcher, Egg parish church, 1900

The Holy Sepulcher was first erected in 1900 in the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Egg. Kaspar Ritter designed a stage that was equipped with a mechanical effect that made it possible to stage the Easter mystery . In a theatrical performance, the body of Christ disappeared and appeared above the burial chamber as a risen man accompanied by an angel. The Dornbirn painter Alfons Luger (1869–1945) provided the pictures. The Egger Heilig Grab was later repeatedly rebuilt and rebuilt until the 1950s.

Homeland style villa No. 499

The representative Heimatstil villa Gerbe 499 from 1900 is a two-storey, wood-shingle block construction on a brick basement floor and ends in the gable roof . On the gable side, all floors are equipped with wooden arbors with richly decorated carvings. The extended stone staircase leads to the historicist portal. The inlaid parquet floors, paneling and stucco ceilings , turned stair railings complete the overall picture of the villa.

  • Homeland style villa: Gerbe 499, 2007

  • Brickworks in Bezau, 2007

  • Interior, Löwensaal Egg, approx. 1900

  • War memorial, Egg, 1927

literature

  • Rita Bertolini : stone on stone. Johann Bertolini. 1859-1931. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2008, ISBN 978-3-902612-41-0 .
  • Egg municipality (ed.): Egg home book. Egg community, Egg 2008, ISBN 978-3-200-01366-7 .
  • Kurt Greussing: And therefore d'Zuokumpft rumplot with G'wault - Giovanni / Johann Bertolini (1859–1931) and the modern age in the Bregenzerwald . In: Culture. Magazine for culture and society . February 2008, ZDB -ID 2254194-9 , p. 46–47 ( digitized on bertolini-ltd.com [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on January 5, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Kaspar Ritter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Kurt Greussing: And d'Zuokumpft rumplot with G'wault therefore - Giovanni / Johann Bertolini (1859–1931) and the modern age in the Bregenzerwald . (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Cf. Rita Bertolini: Stone on Stone - Johann Bertolini 1859-1931 . Hohenems 2008, p. 134 ff.
  3. ↑ See Ute Pfanner: Bürgerliche Bauten. In: Rita Bertolini: Stone on Stone - Johann Bertolini 1859-1931 . Hohenems 2008, p. 53 f.
  4. ↑ See Maria Rose Steurer-Lang: Fine Arts. In: Heimatbuch Egg. Egg 2008, p. 428.
  5. ↑ See Paul Rachbauer : Baukultur and Tracht. In: Heimatbuch Egg. Egg 2008, p. 384.
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabinet maker and representative of modernism in the Bregenzerwald
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Egg , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Egg , Vorarlberg