Rudolf von Wurstemberger

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City Theater Bern, east facade (1904)
Stadttheater Bern, section N – S, view of the stage
Villa Marcuard (broken off), Laupenstrasse 19, Bern

Rudolf Albrecht Renatus von Wurstemberger , also Frenchized René von Wurstemberger (born August 30, 1857 in Bern ; died February 21, 1935 there ) was a Swiss architect of late historicism who worked in Bern and, in addition to villa buildings, also built the Bern City Theater is known.

Life

Wurstemberger, offspring of the Bernese patrician family von Wurstemberger , studied architecture at the Zurich Federal Polytechnic from 1876 to 1878. It was shaped by the influence of Paris , where he attended further training courses at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1879 to 1885. A longer educational trip took him to Germany, the countries of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , the Ottoman Empire and Italy . In 1888 he returned to Bern and married the daughter of the architect Friedrich von Rütte , whose partner he also became. There were villas in the style of the French Renaissance castles, but also the Baroque and Rococo.

In 1897 he took part in the competition for a Bern city theater, which did not bring a winner, but only shared second prizes for him and Kuder and Müller . After revision, his project was commissioned to build, and so from 1901 to 1905 he built the Theater der Stadt Bern , a palatial building with an entrance pavilion and side elevations and six-axis entrance elevation with composite columns in a colossal order , with lateral mansard roofs and overall clearer, more legible from the roof shapes Division into entrance area, audience area and stage wing.

Wurstemberger was involved in public life: in 1894 he was President of the Kunstverein, from 1897 to 1906 President of the Bern Art Museum, from 1904 on the Grand Citizens' Council and from 1919 to 1922 a member of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Art Monuments. From 1914 to 1934 he was President of Bern's Grande Société .

Archives

Selection of works

  • Jenner's villa , Muristrasse 53, Bern (1893, now the Czech embassy)
  • Society house of the archery society of the city of Bern , Thormannstrasse 67, Bern (1894)
  • La Clairière , Muri near Bern (1897)
  • City Theater , Bern (1901/03)
  • Hôtel de Musique (renovation), Bern (1904)
  • Tscharner's villa , Elfenstrasse 19, Bern (1905)
  • Wurstemberger's villa , Taubenstrasse 16, Bern
  • Villa Blumenrain , Taubenstrasse 14, Bern (1912)
  • Extension of the Bernisches Historisches Museum , southern extension to accommodate the Henri Moser-Charlottenfels collection (1921)

literature

  • Anne-Marie Biland: René von Wurstemberger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Elisabeth Ellenberger: Wurstemberger, Rudolf (Albrecht Renatus) from. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 573 f.
  • Dieter Schnell: René von Wurstemberger (1857–1935) , in: Hôtel de Musique and Grande Société in Bern 1759–2009 , Bern 2009, pp. 147–159.

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personal data
SURNAME Wurstemberger, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wurstemberger, Rudolf Albrecht Renatus von; Wurstemberger, René von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1935
Place of death Bern