Sepp Kaiser

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Sepp Kaiser (born November 22, 1872 in Stans , † September 25, 1936 in Berlin ) was a Swiss architect.

Life

Like his father, the painter Karl Georg Kaiser , Sepp Kaiser received his training in Karlsruhe. After studying at the TH from 1891 to 1897, he worked in Karlsruhe and briefly in Munich. In 1902 he moved to Berlin and worked for the elevated railway company and as a freelance architect. He became a member of the artists' association Werkring and later the German Werkbund. From 1911 he was also a lecturer for projection and perspective at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum (later: United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts ). In 1933 he was dismissed by the National Socialists, whereupon he handed over the management of his office to his son-in-law Karl Fezer (1900–1984), but continued to work there until his death. His most extensive group of works are around 20 commercial buildings for the company C&A Brenninkmeyer , whose in-house architect he has been since it expanded to Germany in 1911.

In 1947 Kaiser's last office manager, Ernst August Gärtner, resumed work for C&A in Essen (today: Nattler Architects, Essen).

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Residential buildings (selection)

  • Villa Dr. Andresen , Luzern-Dreilinden (1902–1905)
  • Villa Dr. Andresen , Frauenstrasse 6, Berlin-Lichterfelde (1906)
  • Villa Wentzel Lawyer, Margaretenstrasse 9, Berlin-Zehlendorf (1915)
  • Villa Wittig , Knausstrasse 4, Berlin-Grunewald (1915)
  • Villa Dir.Poppo, Dessauer Strasse 16, Berlin-Zehlendorf (1916)
  • Villa Dir. Berthold, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • Brenninkmeyer settlement, Teltow (1930–1931, only partially realized)
  • Several new builds and conversions of villas for the Brenninkmeyer families in Berlin (Lichterfelde, Wilmersdorf, Südende, Steglitz, Zehlendorf), Mettingen and Westerkappeln

  • Villa Andresen, Berlin-Lichterfelde, 1906

  • Country house design, around 1910

  • Villa Wittig, Berlin-Grunewald, 1915

Erroneously attributed to Sepp Kaiser:

  • Stadtheide settlement, Potsdam (1919–1923, Heinrich Kaiser and Willy Wagenknecht)
  • Harlinger Strasse settlement, Berlin-Wilmersdorf (1928, Heinrich Kaiser & Willy (Paul?) Wagenknecht)

Semi-public and public buildings

  • Competition at the Kunsthaus Zürich ("Create and Compare", 1902); honorable mention
  • Project orphanage Dessau (1903)
  • Conversion of the Stans Theater (1906)
  • Project Kurhaus Warnemünde ("Meerschaum", 1909)
  • Hotel in Switzerland (?)
  • Chapel on Mettenweg, Stans (1913–1916)
  • Project Telephon-Fabrik Fuld , Frankfurt ("TTW", 1929)
  • Project Canisius Church with grammar school at Lietzensee, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1930)

  • Mettenweg Chapel, Stans, 1913–16

Graves and monuments

  • Draft for a war memorial (1916)
  • Kemmann family grave , Berlin-Wilmersdorf (1928)
  • Further tombs in Berlin, Hopsten and Mettingen

  • Kemmann family grave at Wilmersdorf cemetery, 1928

Exhibitions

  • 1902 Exhibition of modern living spaces in the Wertheim department store (gentlemen's rooms )
  • 1904 Large Berlin Art Exhibition (Projects Kunsthaus Zürich, Orphanage Dessau)
  • 1905 Great Berlin Art Exhibition (seating area)
  • 1905 Exhibition of modern living spaces in the Wertheim department store (bedroom)
  • 1906 Werkring exhibition in the Charlottenburg town hall (dining room, gentleman's room)
  • 1906 Dresden arts and crafts exhibition (Herrenzimmer)
  • 1908 Exhibition of modern living spaces in the Wertheim department store (library corner, bedroom, study)
  • 1913 Big Berlin art exhibition

Buildings for traffic

For the Berliner Hochbahngesellschaft between 1902 and 1925, Sepp Kaiser took on individual special tasks alongside chief architect Alfred Grenander :

  • Coal lift on the Landwehr Canal (around 1903)
  • Project to build a suspension railway based on the Wuppertal model (1906-08)
  • Test track for a suspension railway in Brunnenstrasse (together with Grenander and Bruno Möhring , 1908)
  • Gleisdreieck crossing station (1908–12)
  • Grunewald depot (1911–13)
  • Predecessor of today's Olympia-Stadion underground station (1911–13)
  • Project to bridge Dennewitzstrasse (around 1914, portal realized around 1917, bridge 1925–26 through Grenander)
  • Project for a road breakthrough on Gruner- / Klosterstraße (around 1914)
  • Umformerwerk Luckenwalder Strasse (1924-25)

  • Grunewald underground workshop, 1911–13

  • Stadion underground station, 1913

  • Entrance to the Gleisdreieck underground station, 1913

  • Umformerwerk Gleisdreieck, 1925

Buildings for trade

Conversion and new construction of the commercial buildings of C&A Germany , from 1933 supervised by Karl Fezer:

  • Berlin-Mitte, corner of Königstrasse and Neue Friedrichstrasse (1911, rebuilt several times, new building project 1927)
  • Berlin-Mitte, corner of Chaussee- and Invalidenstrasse (1912)
  • Hamburg, Mönckebergstrasse (1913)
  • Cologne (1914, Breite Straße, new building Schildergaße 1928)
  • Essen (1914 Limbecker Strasse , new building Kettwiger Strasse 1934)
  • Berlin-Friedrichshain, Cunda women's clothing factory (since 1921)
  • Hamburg-Altona, Grosse Bergstrasse (1925)
  • C & A (Hannover) on Georgstrasse (1925)
  • Berlin-Kreuzberg, Oranienstrasse (1925)
  • Düsseldorf, Schadowstrasse (new building 1926)
  • Dortmund, Ostenhellweg (new building 1929)
  • Magdeburg, Breiter Weg 109 (new building 1929), extension of the residential building (1937)
  • Berlin-Friedrichshain, Herfa men's clothing factory (since 1929)
  • Duisburg, Münzstrasse (1930)
  • Frankfurt, Zeil (new building 1930)
  • Wuppertal-Barmen, Werth (1930)
  • Bremen, Am Brill (1930)
  • Breslau, corner of Ohlauer- / Altbüßerstraße (new building 1931)
  • Berlin-Charlottenburg, corner of Wilmersdorfer- and Krumme Strasse (new building 1932)
  • Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Herzogstrasse (1936)
  • Hamburg-Barmbek, Hamburger Strasse (1938)
  • Leipzig, Merkurhaus , Markgrafenstraße (new building 1936–37)
  • Berlin-Mitte, Gontardstrasse, office building with C&A headquarters (new building 1936–38)

  • C&A Düsseldorf, 1926

  • Former C&A Dortmund, 1929

  • Former C&A Magdeburg, 1929

  • Former C&A Breslau, 1930–31

  • Merkurhaus Leipzig, 1936–37

Other unrealized projects:

  • Koenigsberg
  • Dresden, Seestrasse (around 1936)
  • Chemnitz

For C&A Holland (taken over by Arch. Kasper Sickler, Amsterdam):

  • Rotterdam, corner of Hoogstraat / Korte Hoogstraat (renovation, 1931)
  • Rotterdam, corner of Hoogstraat / Moriaansplein (renovation / new construction, 1931)
  • The Hague, Groote Marktstraat (new construction 1932)

For C&A Holland (taken over by Arch. Willem Hopmans and Ing.Karel Bouman)

  • 's-Hertogenbosch, Markt (new building 1932–33)

For C&A England (taken over by Arch. North, Robin & Wilsdon):

  • London, Peckham, Rye Lane (new build, 1930)

literature

  • Hermann Kohlmann (ed.), Sepp Kaiser Berlin, qualified architect, Cologne sa (1932)
  • Historical Society Lucerne (Ed.), Archeology Monument Preservation History, Yearbook 21. Jg., 2003, 67–84 ISSN  1660-3486
  • Elisabeth Crettaz-Stürzel, Heimatstil. Reform architecture in Switzerland, Frauenfeld 2005, Vol. 2, 162–174 ISBN 3-7193-1385-9
  • Ulrich Gerster, Regine Helbling, Heini Gut (eds.), Drafts. Art and culture in Central Switzerland 1920–1950. Exhibition cat., Nidwalden Museum, Stans. here + now, Baden 2008, 49–59 ISBN 978-3-03919-081-2
  • Reto Brunner, the Swiss architect Sepp Kaiser (1872–1936), Alfred Grenander and the Berlin elevated and underground railway, in: Christoph Brachmann, Thomas Steigenberger (ed.), A Swede in Berlin. The architect and designer Alfred Grenander and Berlin architecture (1890–1914), Korb 2010, 443–452 ISBN 978-3-939020-81-3
  • Draiflessen Collection (Ed.), C&A is attracting! Impressions of a 100-year company history, Münster 2011 ISBN 978-3-942359-03-0 (German edition)
  • General Artist Lexicon Volume 79, 2013.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 8, No. 7 (October 1905), pp. 260ff ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 12, No. 6 (September 1909), p. 242f ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 18, No. 10 (January 1916), p. 364f ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 19, No. 1 (April 1916), p. 27 ( PDF )
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 23, No. 48 (June 17, 1903), p. 300 ( online )
  6. ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 41, No. 21 (May 23, 1903), p. 242 ( PDF )
  7. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 8, No. 6 (September 1905), p. 222 ( PDF )
  8. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 9, No. 2 (May 1906), p. 78f ( PDF )
  9. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 9, No. 3 (June 1906), p. 111f ( PDF )
  10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, No. 87 (October 27, 1906), pp. 550ff ( online )
  11. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 11, No. 3 (June 1908), p. 95 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Stans
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1936
Place of death Berlin