Niklaus Fritschi

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Niklaus Fritschi (born January 27, 1945 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss architect , painter and draftsman . Together with Benedikt Stahl , he maintains the Atelier Fritschi + Stahl in Düsseldorf - Gerresheim in an architectural partnership .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, Fritschi studied architecture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1969 to 1975 . The architects Ernst Althoff and Hans Hollein were his teachers there. With Hollein, he worked on a renovation study for a miners' colony in Recklinghausen . In 1976, Fritschi received the support award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists for his diploma thesis, a concept for the preservation of the Eisenheim ( Oberhausen ) settlement . After working as a freelancer for Hollein, he formed a studio community with Althoff from 1979 onwards. In 1984 he founded his own architecture office. He became internationally known as an architect primarily through the Rheinuferpromenade project , which he developed around 1990 together with Benedikt Stahl and Günter Baum (* 1950). In 1991 he formed an architectural partnership with them. From 1986 to 2010 he taught at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . In 2005 he was appointed to the Convent of Building Culture of the Federal Building Culture Foundation . At times he was a member of the design advisory board of the city of Wuppertal . Since 2014, Fritschi has been honorary chairman of the Förderkreis Industriepfad Düsseldorf-Gerresheim , whose founding chairman he was since 2007.

Works (selection)

Extension for the City Museum of the State Capital Düsseldorf , view from Spee'schen Graben
Evening view of the Rhine promenade designed by Fritschi, Stahl, Baum and Partner , in the foreground the Kunst im Tunnel (KIT) exhibition house that they later designed , 2008

Urban planning

architecture

Fonts

  • Architecture and art: drawings and models by architects . Eller station, Düsseldorf 1984
  • with Ercan Ağirbaş and Thorsten Scheer (eds.): Voyage d'Orient - Das verkehrte Projekt . Önel-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-9333-4880-7
  • with Benedikt Stahl: The city as a stage . In: Werkbund Academy , issue 9/2007: Architecture as a stage
  • with Peter Henkel: 175 years of the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld railway. The first railway line in West Germany as Düsseldorf's third hour of birth . Droste, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-7700-1515-3

literature

  • Imgard Bernrieder, Niklaus Fritschi: Niklaus Fritschi. Drawings painting collages . Droste, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7700-6004-7
  • Dirk Meyhöfer (Ed.): Architectural Visions for Europe. Hans Hollein, Sir Norman Foster, Dominique Perrault, Romuald Logler, Hans-Ullrich Bitsch and Niklaus Fritschi, Matteo Thun . Vieweg & Teubner, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3-5280-8108-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Henkel: Opening speech for the exhibition Niklaus Fritschi in the Kulturbahnhof Eller , Düsseldorf, September 20, 2015 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Interview with Niklaus Fritschi: “The court of honor needs a dignified ambience on the Rhine” . Article from February 15, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on July 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Thorsten Breitkopf: The creator of the Düsseldorf bank of the Rhine turns 70 . Article from September 19, 2015 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on July 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Frank Maier-Solgk: Copacabana am Rhein . In: DABregional , 3/15 of March 2, 2015, p. 21 ( PDF ( Memento of the original of March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aknw.de
  5. ↑ Second flight of stairs on the Rhine . Article from February 18, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on July 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fritschi, Niklaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen