Michael Stettler

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Michael Stettler.

Bernhard Michael Stettler (born January 1, 1913 in Bern ; † June 18, 2003 in Steffisburg ) was a Swiss architect, art historian, museum director and writer .

Live and act

Michael Stettler grew up in Bern and studied architecture with Otto Rudolf Salvisberg at the ETH Zurich . After graduating in 1936, he received his doctorate in architectural history in 1940 and then took over the inventory of the art monuments in the canton of Aargau. From 1948 to 1961 he was director of the Bern Historical Museum . From 1961 to 1977 he was the first director involved in setting up the Abegg Foundation and its museum in Riggisberg.

In addition to his professional activity, Michael Stettler was a member of the commission for the Gottfried Keller Foundation from 1948 to 1980 (as president from 1948 to 1965) and from 1964 to 1976 at the commission of the Swiss National Museum , from 1970 to 1976 at the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 1960 to 1967 he was also President of the Pro Helvetia Cultural Foundation .

Literary work

Michael Stettler had been in contact with the poet Stefan George since 1931 and belonged to the George Circle until his death in 1933 . In the following years and decades, Stettler published several collections of his own poems (also in Bernese dialect), memories and testimonies in connection with George and his circle, but also many essays on art history, Bern history and on the artists, scientists and politicians with whom he worked was in contact.

A partial bibliography of his writings appeared in Stettler's work Aare, Bär and Sterne (285 numbers from the period 1939–1972). In 1983, on his 70th birthday, the commemorative publication Face to Face was published , and in 1997 his last volume of essays, Teachers and Friends .

family

Michael Stettler came from the Bernese patrician family Stettler , he was married to Barbara von Albertini (1920-2000). The marriage has four daughters. The family lived in the Ortbühl Campagne in Steffisburg.

Stettler was the nephew of Martha Stettler and Adèle von Tavel-Stettler, the wife of Rudolf von Tavels . Tavel was Stettler's godfather.

Stettler's estate is in the Burgerbibliothek Bern , the parts relating to George and the George district are in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart. The correspondence, reports and original drawings on the Nocera Rotunda in the Nocera Inferiore Diocesan Library.

Awards, honors

  • 1953: Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern
  • 1964: Literature Prize of the City of Bern
  • 1973: Dr. hc from the University of Friborg
  • 1979: Dr. hc from the University of Bern
  • 1993: Honorary citizen of his municipality in Steffisburg
  • 2007: Honorary Citizen of the City of Nocera Superiore

Fonts (selection)

  • The Baptistery at Nocera Superiore . In: Rivista di archeologia cristiana 1940 (= dissertation, digitized version ).
  • Interventions in the Bern cityscape for a hundred years . In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde Vol. 8 (1946), pp. 7ff. doi : 10.5169 / seals-241096
  • Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. Volume I, districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1948.
  • My old Bern , Bern 1953.
  • with Emil Maurer : The art monuments of the Canton of Aargau, Volume II: The districts of Brugg, Lenzburg. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 29). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1953. DNB 750561750 .
  • with Hermann von Fischer : Vom alten Bern , Geneva 1957.
  • Council of the Elders. Encounters and visits , Bern 1962.
  • Bernerlob. Attempts at the local tradition , Bern 1963.
  • New Bernerlob. Attempts at transmission. Bern, 1967.
  • Aare, bear and stars. Mixed writings Bern, 1972.
  • Ortbühl Children's Land , 1980.
  • Go ahead. Figures and examples , Bern 1981
  • Ortbühler sketchbook. Autobiographical , Bern 1982.
  • Sulgenbach. Prose and verse , Bern 1992.

literature

  • Florens Deuchler et al. (Ed.): Face to face. Portrait studies. Michael Stettler on his 70th birthday , Bern 1983.
  • Rudolf Fahrner , Michael Stettler: "We are the late heirs of the beautiful that lasts forever". Michael Stettler and Rudolf Fahrner. A poet friendship in letters , ed. by Stefano Bianca, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2013. ISBN 978-3-412-20951-3
  • Wolfgang Braungart / Achim Aurnhammer / Stefan Breuer / Ute Oelmann (eds.): Stefan George and his circle. A manual. Volume 3, 1692–1694 (author Ute Oelmann), Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-026834-8
  • Umberto Pappalardo (Ed.): Il Battistero di Nocera Superiore. Un capolavoro dell'architettura paleocristiana in Campania . Con la traduzione integrale in italiano del saggio di Michael STETTLER, “The Baptistery of Nocera Superiore”. Naples 2007. ISBN 88-8862319-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Stettler: Aunt Martha. In: Michael Stettler: Ortbühler sketch book. Autobiographical. Bern: Stämpfli, 1982.
  2. ↑ Michael Stettler's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern . Original correspondence and original drawings on the Nuceria rotunda in the Nocera Inferiore diocesan library
  3. ↑ Part of Stettler's estate in the Stefan George Archive in Stuttgart.

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personal data
SURNAME Stettler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect, art historian, museum director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2003
Place of death Steffisburg