Nicolaus Hartmann (architect, 1880)

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Nicolaus Hartmann III.
Engadine Museum in St. Moritz
Administration building of the Rhaetian Railway in Chur

Nicolaus Hartmann (born May 2, 1880 in St. Moritz ; † July 17, 1956 there ) was a Swiss architect . The son of the father of the same name, who is also well-known, has planned, among other things, architecturally important hotel buildings and buildings for the Rhaetian Railway .

Life

After training as an architect at the Ecole d'Industrie in Lausanne from 1896 to 1900 , Hartmann studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart until 1903 . After his father's death, he took over his architectural office in St. Moritz in the same year. As a graduate of Theodor Fischer , he rejected the neoclassicism and historicism that were widespread as a result of the tourist building boom in Graubünden, just as he saw Art Nouveau as overcome. Rather, he advocated resorting to regional building forms and craft traditions. In 1905 he became a member of the young Swiss Association for Homeland Security and was at the same time co-founder of its Graubünden section - a commitment that occupied him all his life. In his hotel buildings of this time, Hartmann reduced the size of his hotel buildings by dividing up the structures, bay windows, gable and roof shapes and tried to "give them the appearance of stately patrician houses".

In 1908 the Engadine Museum was established in St. Moritz, a “historically correct reconstruction of the Engadine house” and thus to be classified in the context of farmhouse research and the local style.

His administration building for the Rhaetian Railway in Chur, a neo-renaissance building with a high mansard roof , on the other hand, had significantly higher representative standards and shaped the cityscape. Here, as in other public buildings Hartmann preferred the cladding with dry stone - masonry : About the Museum Segantini , at the Sacred Heart Church in Samedan and also in the subsequent station buildings Alp Grüm and Ospizio Bernina Rhaetian Railway. These were built in the early 1920s, as were the power plant control centers, which arose in the course of the expansion of the electricity industry after the supply crisis of the First World War .

Selection of works

  • 1904–1906: Crap da Sass Castle in Surlej
  • 1905–1906: 1913–1914: Extension to the Hotel Margna in Sils
  • 1905–1907: Laubenhof in Chur
  • 1906–1907: Hotel La Margna in St. Moritz
  • 1907–1908: Extension to the Hotel Alpenrose in Sils
  • 1907–1910: Administration building of the Rhaetian Railway in Chur
  • 1908: Engadine Museum in St. Moritz
  • 1908: Museo Segantini in St. Moritz
  • 1910: Riding arena in St. Moritz
  • 1910: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Samedan
  • 1912–1913: Extension to the Lyceum Alpinum in Zuoz
  • 1912–1913: Hotel Castell in Zuoz
  • 1915: Catholic Church in Davos
  • 1921: Local planning for the reconstruction of the community of Sent
  • 1921–1922: Büdemji power station in Küblis
  • 1922: Bernina Suot station building in Poschiavo
  • 1923: Station building and Alp Grüm mountain inn in Poschiavo
  • 1925: Station building Bernina Hospice in Poschiavo
  • 1925: Doggiloch power plant center in Davos
  • 1927: Palü power plant center in Poschiavo
  • 1928: Schlappin power plant center
  • 1927: St. Moritz station of the Rhaetian Railway
  • 1928: Villa Englert in St. Moritz
  • 1928: Villa Grieder in St. Moritz
  • 1945: Alpine middle school in Davos

literature

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Architects Lexicon of Switzerland , p. 253 (see literature )
  2. ↑ Entry on graubuendenkultur.ch
  3. ↑ Entry on graubuendenkultur.ch
  4. ↑ Peter de Jong: Two buildings that have shaped the cityscape for a century. In: Churer Magazin ( online as PDF)
  5. ↑ Obituary in the Schweizerische Bauzeitung (see literature )
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Moritz
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1956
Place of death St. Moritz