Richard Kuder

Richard Kuder (born July 18, 1852 in Stuttgart , † April 14, 1912 in Hausen am Albis ) was a German architect of historicism . From 1892 he worked together with Joseph Müller in a joint architecture office. After moving to Switzerland, Alexander von Senger became his partner in 1907 . In his late work there are forms of Art Nouveau .

Life

Historical museum in Haguenau

Richard Kuder, who was born in Stuttgart, began his training in 1868 with a two-year construction apprenticeship in Lausanne, Switzerland . In 1870 he moved to Vienna to study architecture . Here he attended the Technical University of Vienna until 1873 and Friedrich von Schmidt's master class at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . At that time Schmidt was working on the construction of the new Vienna City Hall , a design in the neo-Gothic style .

One of Kuder's earliest important building projects was the construction of the first stock exchange in Zurich , in which he participated from 1877–1879. He then worked mainly in Mulhouse and Strasbourg in Alsace, which was then part of the German Empire . In 1892 he founded the architectural office Kuder und Müller together with Joseph Müller in Strasbourg , which existed until 1907, although Kuder had already settled in Zurich in 1897. The reason for the move was the new building for the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Fund, which Kuder was in charge of as the lead architect until 1898. This building project, executed in red sandstone in the style of the German Renaissance , is considered to be the main work of the Kuder und Müller architecture office. When building the post and telegraph office in Schaffhausen , which was completed in 1902 , Kuder and Müller chose neo-Gothic stylistic devices and also incorporated Art Nouveau elements into the design.

From 1901 to 1903 Kuder held the office of chairman of the Zurich Association of Engineers and Architects. In the years that followed, Art Nouveau influences were increasingly found in his work. These include the Dufourstasse 3 residential and commercial building in Zurich, built in 1903, and the more cubic form of the festival hall of the Swiss Confederation of Singers, completed in 1905. Kuder also designed the interior of Villa Alma in Männedorf in Art Nouveau style . When designing the exterior of this building project, which was carried out for the couple Emil and Alma Staub-Terlinden , Kuder oriented himself towards contemporary English country house architecture .

From 1907 Kuder worked together with the architect Alexander von Senger . The architectural firm Kuder and Senger took as before Kuder and Müller in numerous architectural competitions in the German Reich and Switzerland. In 1907, Kuder and von Senger were commissioned to build the new St. Gallen train station , a project from which Kuder withdrew at the end of November 1910 due to differences with the client. Richard Kuder died in Hausen am Albis in 1912 .

buildings

• 1896: Synagogue in La Chaux-de-Fonds
• 1897/1898: Restoration building and festival hall at Schützenhaus Albisgüetli , Uetlibergstrasse 341 in Zurich
• 1897–1898: Administration building of the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Fund, General Guisan-Quai 38
• 1899: Brann department store , Bahnhofstrasse 75 in Zurich (from 1941 Oskar Weber, today Manor department store)
• 1899–1902: Post and telegraph office in Schaffhausen
• 1900–1903: Singing house in Strasbourg, with Joseph Müller (today Palais des Fêtes , expanded several times until 1922)
• 1900–1905: Historical Museum (today: Musée Historique) in Hagenau ( Haguenau )
• 1902–1906: Colmar Higher Regional Court
• 1903: Dufourstasse 3 residential and commercial building in Zurich
• 1903/1904: Reiff residential and commercial building, Genferstrasse 24 in Zurich (executed by Kuder and Müller based on plans by Julius Kunkler )
• 1904–1905: Villa Laubi, Kappelistrasse 7 in Zurich-Enge
• 1905: Festival hall of the Swiss Federal Song Festival in Zurich
• 1905/1906: Villa Alma, Seestrasse 80 in Männedorf
• 1907–1908: Turbine hall of the Löntsch power plant in Netstal
• from 1907: St. Gallen train station (1907–1910 planning together with von Senger, built 1911–1913 without Kuder)

literature

• Kuder, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 42 .
• Peter Baumgartner: History of the Villa Alma in Männedorf. In: Zürcher Denkmalpflege, 11th report 1983–1986. Directorate of Public Buildings of the Canton of Zurich, Department of Monument Preservation, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-905647-61-3 .

Web links

• Cornelia Bauer: Kuder, Richard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .