Peter Meyer (architect)
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Peter Meyer (born December 14, 1894 in Munich ; † November 12, 1984 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss architect and art historian .
Life
Meyer was the son of the painter and graphic artist Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel and grandson of the doctor and writer Theodor Meyer-Merian . The mayor of Basel, Adelberg Meyer zum Pfeil, is one of his ancestors . He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , where he graduated in 1918. In the 1920s he was an employee of the Swiss construction newspaper and from 1930 to 1942 editor of the architecture and art magazine Das Werk . In 1927 he married the artist Luise Meyer-Strasser , with whom he had two children. From 1935 Meyer taught at the ETH Zurich , initially as a private lecturer, after a doctorate (1941) and habilitation (1944), he was appointed "Associate Professor for Art History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times" at the University of Zurich in 1956 .
For the 20th century, Meyer is regarded as "one of the most important Swiss architecture critics and art historians of the popular science direction".
Fonts
- Modern architecture and tradition. Girsberger, Zurich 1927.
- European art history in 2 volumes. Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich 1947/1948.
- PM essays by Peter Meyer, 1921–1974. Edited by Hans Jakob Woerner. Verlag AG of academic and technical associations, Zurich 1984.
literature
- Meyer, Jochen: Meyer, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 368 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Katharina Medici Mall: Meyer, Peter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Katharina Medici-Mall: In the tangled valley of styles. Architecture and art in the judgment of Peter Meyer (1894–1984) . Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5825-4 .
- Simone Rümmele: Peter Meyer. Architecture and theorist. Peter Meyer's contribution to the architecture discussion of the interwar period. Central Office of the Student Union, Zurich 1999.
Web links
- Peter Meyer in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyer, Jochen: Meyer, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 368 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Katharina Medici Mall: Meyer, Peter. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on September 27, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1984 |
| Place of death | Winterthur |