Niklaus Sprüngli

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Niklaus Sprüngli, Portrait of Tiberius Dominikus Wocher (around 1773)
Bern, correction of the Nydeggstald, outline of the first project (1759)
Sankt-Petersinsel, pavilion, colored outline etching (1786)
New building project for the Bern town hall, 1787/88 (not realized)

Niklaus Sprüngli (baptized September 6, 1725 in St. Stephan BE ; † December 8, 1802 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect and draftsman .

Life

Sprüngli was the son of pastor Samuel Sprüngli (1688–1771) and Anna Maria Heggi. His first marriage was to Judith Elisabeth Steck (1727–1769) and his second marriage to Elisabeth Tschiffeli (1733–1802), a sister of Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli . Niklaus Sprüngli began an apprenticeship with the minster foreman Johann Jakob Jenner in 1741 and stayed in Paris from 1746 to 1755 , where he said he continued his education with Jacques-François Blondel and in 1754 won a medal at the Prix ​​de Rome academy competition. Together with the Franco-Italian fireworks and stage architect Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695–1766) he traveled to London and to Dresden, Berlin and Potsdam. 1756 he had possibly settled in Bern, where he projects for the armory worked out and the Stalden refurbishment, which were not realized. After 1757, the Bernese authorities commissioned him with numerous new buildings and renovations such as churches, parsonages, bailiffs' seats , beneficiaries , some bridges and water protection structures throughout the city ​​and republic of Bern . In 1764 Sprüngli held the position of builder von Burgern in the external estate . Between 1766 and 1767 the Hauptwache was built in Bern and the Hôtel de Musique , two of his main works, from 1767 to 1770 . In 1770 the lot determined him to be the master stone worker of the outer hut. As a master stoneworker, he repaired and planned state buildings from 1770. The library gallery, which was demolished in 1909, was built between 1773 and 1775. In 1796 he was elected master craftsman.

A garden design from around 1774 for Ebenrain Castle near Sissach and the two pavilions of the Kleehof near Kirchberg dating from around 1765 have been secured as buildings for private clients . During his lifetime he was already listed in the “History of the best artists in Switzerland” by Johann Caspar Füssli (1706–1782). Sprüngli designed several architectural fantasies and, in his old age, numerous landscape vedutas, some of which appeared in print. The Bernese architect and monument conservator Bernhard Furrer described Niklaus Sprüngli and Albrecht Stürler as the two most important Bernese architects of the late baroque .

Works

Archives

literature

  • Johann Caspar Füssli: Nicolaus Sprünglin , In: History of the best artists in Switzerland. Volume 5, Zurich 1779, pp. 97-100 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Sprüngli, Niklaus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 417 .
  • Paul Hofer: Sprüngli, Stadtwerkmeister of Bern: on the 150th anniversary of death, October 8, 1952. Self-published, Bern 1953.
  • Paul Hofer: Niklaus Sprüngli, 1705-1802: Memorial exhibition on the 150th year of death in the school control room in Bern, from January 24th to March 7th 1953. Contains: Critical directory revised. by Paul Hofer. Benteli, Bern 1953.
  • Paul Hofer: Late Baroque in Bern. Studies on the architectural language of the 18th century , Basel 1992.
  • Dieter Schnell: Niklaus Sprüngli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Dieter Schnell: Niklaus Sprüngli 1725–1802 , In: Thomas Loertscher, Georg Germann: Währschektiven, useful and beautiful. Exhibition catalog, Bern 1994, p. 391.
  • Dieter Schnell: Niklaus Sprüngli: 1725–1802; Building for the city and republic of Bern. Licorne-Verlag, Bern / Langnau / Murten 1999, (also under the title Niklaus Sprüngli: (1725–1802): “Master Builder of Ihro Graces and Glories of Bern”. Dissertation at the University of Bern, Bern 1996) ISBN 3-85654- 819-X .
  • Dieter Schnell: Niklaus Sprüngli . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1715.
  • Dieter Schnell: The Hôtel de Musique and its architect Niklaus Sprüngli (1725–1802). In: Hôtel de Musique and Grande Société in Bern 1759–2009. Bern 2009, pp. 97–114.
  • Constitution of the highly commendable external status of the city of Bern. On Easter 1764 , Bern, Victor Emanuel Hortin, 1764.

Web links

Commons : Niklaus Sprüngli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staatsarchiv Bern, K St. Stephan 3, p. 198. online The godfather of the name was Niklaus Wagner (1660–1735), Inselschreiber, Iseler, court clerk, Vogt zu Milden, Kastlan zu Zweisimmen.
  2. ↑ Füssli 1779, p. 98.
  3. ↑ Füssli 1779, p. 99; Schnell 1999, p. 24.
  4. ^ Constitution of 1764, o. P.
  5. ↑ Schnell 1999, pp. 167-174.
  6. ↑ Schnell 1994, p. 391.
  7. ↑ Schnell 1999, p. 125.
  8. ↑ Füssli 1779.
  9. ↑ Hofer 1992, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Sprüngli, Niklaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sprünglin, Niklaus; Sprüngli, Nikolaus; Sprüngli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect, master builder of Bern
DATE OF BIRTH baptized September 6, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Stephan BE
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1802
Place of death Bern