Léon Fulpius

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Protestant chapel in Bernex, with Frantz Fulpius, ca.1904

Léon Fulpius (born December 29, 1840 in Geneva ; † February 28, 1927 there ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Born as the son of the architect Jacques François Fulpius (1812–70), Léon Fulpius studied architecture with Gottfried Semper at the ETH Zurich . In 1862 he completed his studies as an architect. After an internship in Paris in 1863, he joined his father's office, which he took over on his own in 1870. From 1896 he ran the office together with his son Frantz and stayed in the office well into old age, visiting his workplace every day until his death. During the time when he was running the business alone, Léon Fulpius mainly built residential and commercial buildings, which are described as “worthy but unpretentious”. Together with his son, his father's historicism changed into a reform style, schools, churches and hospitals were added to the construction work.

During his studies he joined the Corps Rhenania . His reception took place in the summer semester of 1859. Between 1899 and 1905 he was president of the Geneva section of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects .

Selection of works

  • Immeubles Grütli / Synagogue / Petitot / Favon. Apartment block with shop arcades, Geneva 1872–89
  • Immeuble Cours de Rive. Residence, Geneva 1872
  • Immeuble rue Lefort. Residence, Geneva 1872
  • Immeuble Boulevard Helvétique. Residence, Geneva 1879
  • Immeuble rue de Candolle. Residence, Geneva 1880
  • Immeuble Rue Bautte. Residence, Geneva 1881
  • Immeuble Rue Gustave-Ador. Residence, Geneva 1883
  • Immeuble Quai Gustave-Ador. Residence, Geneva 1888
  • Immeuble Boulevard Georges Favon. Residential and commercial buildings, Geneva 1888
  • Café Glacier at the National Exhibition in Geneva in 1896
  • Immeuble Rue de L'Arquebuse. Residence, Geneva 1897
With Frantz Fulpius
  • Immeubles Toepffer / Mont-de-Sion / Sturm / Tranchées. Apartment block with business arcades, Geneva 1898
  • Orphélinat Bougeries , Orphanage, Geneva 1899
  • Federal Precious Metals Control Building, Biel 1899–1900
  • École enfantine. School, Geneva 1901-02
  • Protestant chapel. Bernex around 1904
  • Post office building. La Chaux-de-Fonds 1905-10
  • Rectory. Lancy 1912
  • Protestant Church. Lancy 1913
  • Usine à gaz de Châtelaine. Gasworks, Le Lignon 1914
  • Bank Lombard, Odier & Cie. Administration building, Geneva 1922

literature

  • Phillippe R. Renaud: Fulpius, Léon. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 196 f.
  • Dagmar Böcker: Fulpius, Léon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • NN: Léon Fulpius . Necrology. In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 53 , no. 25 , 1927, pp. 307 ( online [accessed December 21, 2015]).
  • NN: Léon Fulpius . Necrologist. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 89 , no. 14 , 1927, pp. 189 ( online [accessed December 21, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilles Barbey, Armand Brulhart, Georg Germann: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Geneva. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 4 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01398-4 , p. 340 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-5496 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on December 21, 2015]).
  2. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 300.
  3. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 340 ( e-periodica.ch )
  4. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 341 ( e-periodica.ch )
  5. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 297 ( e-periodica.ch )
  6. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 317 ( e-periodica.ch )
  7. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 388 ( e-periodica.ch )
  8. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 323 ( e-periodica.ch )
  9. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 350 ( e-periodica.ch )
  10. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 323 ( e-periodica.ch )
  11. ^ Jacques Gubler: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . La Chaux-de-Fonds. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 3 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01397-6 , p. 205 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-4535 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on December 21, 2015]).
  12. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 390 ( e-periodica.ch )
  13. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 332 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Fulpius, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1927
Place of death Geneva