Denervaud and Schaller

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Denervaud and Schaller was a Freiburg architecture firm that represented moderate modernism from the late 1920s .

Biographies

Leonhard Denervaud (born November 22, 1889 in Bouloz ; died March 12, 1955 in Freiburg) began studying at the Freiburg Technical Center after completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter , but dropped out. In 1918 he got a job in the office of the city architect Léon Jungo in Freiburg. When he was appointed head of the federal building department, Denervaud moved in 1919 to the office of cantonal master builder, where he became his assistant.

Joseph Schaller (born May 18, 1891 in Freiburg; died March 14, 1936 there ) probably began studying at the École des beaux-arts in Paris . Since the early 1920s he has been building residential buildings in Freiburg, among others together with Joseph Diener, for the first Freiburg building cooperative, La Fraternelle, as well as single-family houses.

partnership

The architects founded the joint office in 1928 which, after Schaller's death in 1936, was continued by Denervaud until after the Second World War. Since the early 1930s, their buildings have been influenced by a moderate modernism, namely by Maurice Braillard in Geneva. A visible expression of this tendency is above all their Moderna residential and commercial building, a restrained, cubic, vertically staggered flat roof building that has been a style-defining feature in Freiburg for two decades.

Works (selection)

Schaller
  • La Fraternelle houses , Freiburg, 1924
Denervaud and Schaller
  • Villa , Muntelier, 1930–31
  • Moderna , residential and commercial building, Freiburg, 1930–32
  • Residential and commercial building , Freiburg, 1931–32
  • Single-family house , Freiburg, 1932
  • Residential and commercial building , Freiburg, 1932–34
  • Residential and commercial building , Freiburg, 1932–34
  • Hotel Freiburg , Freiburg, 1932–34 (canceled in 1978)
  • Three Villas Weck , Freiburg, 1932–34
Denervaud
  • L'Industrielle , Freiburg, 1946–47

literature

  • Christoph Allenspach: Denervaud and Schaller. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 18 f.