From the Mühll and Oberrauch

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Von der Mühll und Oberrauch was an architectural office from Basel run by the two Swiss partners from 1919 to 1953 , whose focus, influenced by the New Building , was on cooperative housing and administrative building.

Hans von der Mühll

Hans von der Mühll, 1887–1953, grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Gravestone in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

Hans von der Mühll (born June 26, 1887 in Basel ; † February 26, 1953 in Versailles ) came from a bourgeois family in Basel. He first completed an apprenticeship in Wilhelm Bernoulli's office before studying architecture with Theodor Fischer in Munich . After graduating, he worked there with Richard Riemerschmid . He died unexpectedly of a heart attack on a trip to Versailles for Carnival in 1953.

Paul Oberrauch

Paul Oberrauch (born June 6, 1890 in Davos ; † July 15, 1954 near Spreitenbach ) was the son of a Davos butcher. After finishing school in Schiers , he trained as a construction technician in Winterthur from 1906 and also worked for Nicolaus Hartmann in St. Moritz and Rittmeyer and Furrer in Winterthur. From 1912 he also studied with Fischer in Munich, where he met his future partner. He probably gained further professional experience in Stuttgart, Florence and Leipzig, where he married Anna Caspar from the Grisons at the beginning of the war. In 1917 the couple returned to Switzerland "after two years of hardship, driven by hunger." Oberrauch died together with his wife in a car accident.

office

Together they were able to open an office by winning the 2nd prize in the competition for the main building of the Basel model fair in Basel. Her house at WOBA exemplified her efforts in the development of small apartment construction, the development process of which can already be seen in settlements such as the Gundeldingen housing cooperative and home country Basel . With the buildings on Spiegelgasse in Basel, the Spiegelhof , administrative buildings for the police and the public health insurance company, the correction of the inner city of Basel's old town west of the market square began in 1938. Overall, a certain modesty is attested to the work: “All the buildings, including the many private houses, are not so much understood as 'monuments' than as a framework for the life that should move into the finished building and fill it. A framework, of course, that obliges. "

Selection of works

  • Competition Basel sample fair , Basel, 1919 (competition project, 2nd place ex aequo)
  • Gundeldingen housing cooperative , 133 apartments, Basel 1926/27 (with Rudolf Christ)
  • Homeland cooperative , 72 apartments, Basel 1926/27
  • Eglisee housing cooperative , model house for the Basel housing exhibition, 1930
  • Spinnwetter guild house , conversion into a bookshop, Basel 1930
  • Spiegelhof , Municipal Administration, Basel 1938/39
  • Thierstein housing cooperative , 117 apartments, Basel 1943/44 (1st construction phase) and 1946 (2nd construction phase with Rudolf Christ)
  • Birkhäuser printing works , Basel 1951
  • Zum Gold office building , Basel 1951/52
  • Office building Elisabethenstr. , Basel 1952

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Nekrolog Das Werk
  2. ↑ Nekrolog SBZ
  3. ↑ Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 2: Northwestern Switzerland, Jura, Central Plateau. Zurich: Werk Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-909145-12-4 . P. 28
  4. ↑ The Swiss Housing Exhibition 1930 , Das Werk, Vol. 16, p. 244, doi : 10.5169 / seals-15966
  5. ^ Wohngenossenschaft Gundeldingen, Basel: Architects Hans von der Mühll & Paul Oberrauch BSA and Rudolf Christ , Das Werk, vol. 15, p. 83 ff., Doi : 10.5169 / seals-15154
  6. ^ The episode of the systematic construction of small apartments , Das Werk, vol. 16, p. 141, doi : 10.5169 / seals-15942
  7. ↑ Basler building report, the work Vol. 25 S. XIV ff.
  8. ↑ Nekrolog Das Werk