Wilhelm Waser

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Wilhelm Waser (born March 6, 1811 in Zurich ; died June 28, 1866 there ) was a Swiss architect .

Live and act

Waser, the son of a master butcher, lost his father at the age of twelve and then had to go to the orphanage. After an apprenticeship with master builder Graf in Winterthur (1827–1831), he got a job or worked for Leonhard Zeugheer . In 1835 his patron Leonhard Ziegler made it possible for him to study at the building academy in Munich with Friedrich von Gärtner . There Georg Friedrich Ziebland became another sponsor, and he made friends with members of the Quaglio family .

In the fall of 1837 he began a one-year study trip that took him to Vienna, Budapest, Berlin (where Schinkel impressed him greatly ), Lübeck and Hamburg, before he returned to Zurich in 1838 and settled down as an architect and building contractor. From around 1840 until his death he built a number of buildings in Zurich, in Horgen and in communities north of Zurich. His houses on Limmatquai in Zurich, with which his career is also connected in terms of planning, are particularly visible today : in addition to a proposal for the relocation of the Sihl, he submitted projects for the extension of the Limmatquai and a first station bridge, which he did not penetrate which were later completed by other architects. His buildings were mostly classicist ; in addition to residential and guest houses for a private client, Waser planned a few school buildings.

According to the inventory of Swiss architecture 1850–1920 , Waser established a foundation payable in 2018 “for the beautification and improvement of the city of Zurich”.

He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

Works (selection)

Three houses by Waser am Limmatquai: The house “Zum Grossen Schiff”, the former “Zunfthaus zur Gerwe” (both left) and the former “Hotel Schweizerhof” (right)
Waser's “Plattenhof”, Zurich-Fluntern
  • Cold water sanatorium Albisbrunn , Hausen a. Albis 1839-1842
  • Sonnenhof , renovation, Zurich around 1840 (attributed to Waser)
  • Zum Schanzenberg , Kern beer brewery and residential building, Zurich 1842–47
  • Schwanen Inn , Baltenswil 1843–1845
  • Gubel Monastery , sub-areas, Menzingen 1843–1847
  • Neues Klösterli , Zurich 1848
  • Piano factory Hüni & Hubert , Zurich 1849–1851 (burned down in 1885)
  • Falkenburg tobacco factory , Zurich 1850 (rebuilt in 1867)
  • Schoolhouse , Rüschlikon 1850–1851
  • Schoolhouse , Riesbach 1852–1853
  • Bahnhofbrücke , Zurich 1854 (project, carried out 1861–1864 by Arnold Bürkli )
  • To the bread basket , Zurich 1857
  • Münsterhof , Zurich 1857 (attributed to Waser)
  • Limmatquai 80–82 , Zurich 1857–1858
  • Münsterhäuser , Zurich 1857–1859
  • Hotel Schweizerhof , Zurich 1859
  • Zum Plattenhof , Zurich 1861–1863 (attributed to Waser)
  • Hotel Krone , facade renovation, Zurich 1863
  • Sigristenhaus , Zurich 1864

literature

  • Regula Michel: Waser, Wilhelm. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 560.
  • b.sr .: An unrecognized Zurich architect . Exhibition about Wilhelm Waser in the "Unter Rech". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Zurich November 30, 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Both the architects' dictionary and the article in the NZZ report on this , although the witness army, who was a year younger than him, was still doing his own studies and was at least partially not in Zurich.
  2. ^ Hanspeter Rebsamen, Cornelia Bauer, Jan Capol: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Zurich. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 10 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-280-02180-4 , p. 214 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-10931 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on June 29, 2016]).
  3. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 411 ( e-periodica.ch )
  4. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 398 ( e-periodica.ch )
  5. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 301 ( e-periodica.ch )
  6. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 395 ( e-periodica.ch )
  7. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 401 ( e-periodica.ch )
  8. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 305 ( e-periodica.ch )
  9. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 366 ( e-periodica.ch )
  10. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 372 ( e-periodica.ch )
  11. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 364 ( e-periodica.ch )
  12. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 364 ( e-periodica.ch )
  13. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 365 ( e-periodica.ch )
  14. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 330 ( e-periodica.ch )
  15. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 365 ( e-periodica.ch )
  16. ↑ INSA Volume 10 p. 358 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Waser, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1866
Place of death Zurich