Paul Adolphe Tièche

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Paul Adolphe Tièche

Paul Adolphe Tièche (born March 30, 1838 in Bévilard ; † May 16, 1912 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect and politician who worked primarily in the canton of Bern and used historicist architectural styles.

biography

Paul Adolphe Tièche, son of the reformed pastor of Bévilard in the Bernese Jura , came to Bern at the age of eight , where he lived with his grandfather. After graduating from high school , he studied architecture at the Eidgenössisches Politechnikum in Zurich from 1856 , where Gottfried Semper exerted a great influence on him. In 1859, Tièche received the architecture diploma and completed an internship in the building construction office of the Swiss Central Railway . In 1860 he moved to Paris , where he received further artistic training from Charles-Auguste Questel and at the École des Beaux-Arts until 1863 . He was then involved in the construction of the Sainte-Anne psychiatric clinic. From 1868 to 1871 he was employed in the architectural office of Louis-Frédéric de Rutté in Mulhouse .

While he was still a student, Tièche designed the stations in Ebikon , Gisikon , Rotkreuz and Cham for the later bankrupt Swiss Ostwestbahn (the latter is now in Bäch ). He worked as a freelance architect in Bern. His first major project was the cantonal military establishments on Bern's Beundenfeld. This was followed by the Hotel Thunerhof in Thun (today's Kunstmuseum Thun ), the Grand Hotel in Baden and the villa on the Eichbühl estate in Hilterfingen . Other works by Tièche are the conversion of the Bern granary into a commercial museum, the central building and the chapel of the Münsingen insane asylum , the Bern Historical Museum (together with Eduard von Rodt ), the Marsens insane asylum in the canton of Friborg , the station buildings of the Brünigbahn in Lucerne and on the Brünig Pass as well as numerous private houses.

Tièche was often involved in judges for public and private construction projects. As a representative of the Liberals, he was a local councilor from 1882 to 1885 and was therefore a member of the city of Bern's executive branch. From 1882 to 1894 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern and from 1896 to 1897 of the Bern City Council (legislature). A particular concern for him was the expansion of the non-university educational offer. From 1888 to 1909 he presided over the Bern apprenticeship workshops, which he co-founded. He also held office from 1893 to 1907 as a federal expert on industrial education and from 1907 to 1912 as President of the Bern section of the “Swiss Society of Painters, Sculptors and Architects”.

Tièche was married to Louise Bertha Frey, his son Adolf Tièche was a well-known painter.

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  1. ↑ This building has Zug roots. Zugkultur, August 20, 2014, accessed April 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tièche, Paul Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Bévilard
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1912
Place of death Bern