Johann Caspar Wolff – Wikipedia

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Burghölzli Clinic in Zurich by J. C. Wolff, 1864–1870, steel stitch around 1890

Burghölzli Clinic Zurich, main building

Social House Museum in Bern

Johann Caspar Wolff , also Johann Kaspar Wolff (Born September 28, 1818 in Zurich, † April 27, 1891 ibid) was a Swiss architect of classicism and historicism, and also the state building inspector of the canton of Zurich.

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From 1833 to 1836 Wolff completed an apprenticeship with Hans Rychner in Neuchâtel, after which he was at the academy in Munich until 1840. From 1845 to 1848 or 1851 he was a building manager in Zofingen. Then until 1865 he held the office of the state building inspector of the canton of Zurich.

After the devastating fire of Glarus, he planned the rebuild of the Cantonal Center with Bernhard Simon after 1861. His architectural work is still partly obliged to do late classicism, but in many cases it is already to be assigned to historicism. Wolff often used the style forms of neo -Gothic and neo -Renaissance. His son Caspar Otto Wolff was also an architect.

  • Primarschulhaus Wohlen, 1851–1854, simple construction of late classicism
  • Primary school Baumgärtli Horgen, 1852
  • Winterthur district prison, 1852-1854
  • Reformed rectory Wiesendangen, 1853–1854.
  • Reformed Church of Winterthur-Töss, 1854–1855, neo-Gothic hall church
  • District building Pfäffikon ZH, 1855, simple, late classical building
  • Reformed Church Hütten, 1855–1856, Landkirche of late classicism
  • Reformed Church Küsnacht, 1857, tower in neo -Gothic forms
  • Old cotton spinning mill Wettingen, 1857–1860, administration building as the work of Wolff; Rest of Wolff
  • Dorfzentrum Einsiedeln, 1859–1861, originally Holy-spirit-hospital, late classicist palace
  • Salt, grain and department store Winterthur, 1861–1863, freight warehouse
  • City facility Glarus, 1861–1864, right -angled new design of the city complex after a landslide, developed together with Bernhard Simon.
… one of the most quality urban new creations of the 19th century in Switzerland. [first]
  • Individual buildings in Glarus:
    • Foreign Palace, 1862, late classical building, today Hotel «Glarnerhof»
    • House Heer, 1863, late classicist citizenship for Joachim Heer
    • The courthouse, 1862–1884, late classical tribunal building with side pavilions
    • Higher City School, 1870-1872, late classicist school building, today the state library
  • Reformed church in, 1863-1864, neo -Gothic country church
  • Reformed church Dielsdorf ZH, 1864–1866, neo -Gothic nave
  • Remodel Rheinau Monastery, 1864–1867, conversion of the baroque monastery complex to the healing and nursing institution of the canton of Zurich
  • Temple of the old barracks in Zurich, 1964–1869, building complex in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
  • Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich am Burghölzli , 1864–1870, Monumental Neo-Renaissance-Anlage
  • Society House Museum in Bern, 1866-1869, Neorenaissance Palace at the Bundesplatz, today the seat of the Bernese Kantonalbank
  • Government building in Zug, 1869–1873, Neorenaissancebau, with his son Caspar Otto Wolff according to a template by Arnold Bosshard.
  • Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic Marsens Fri, 1872-1875, large area with pavilions around a former Jesuit monastery
  • Reformed Church Wangen, municipality of Wangen-Brüttisellen, 1874, neo-Gothic country church

Gallery of the buildings in Glarus [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • Fremdenpalast Glarus
  • Haus Heer Glarus
  • Gerichtsgebäude Glarus
  • Höhere Stadtschule Glarus

    Higher City School Glarus

  • Regulates Michel: Wolff, Johann Caspar. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (ed.): Architectural lexicon of Switzerland – 19th/20th Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2, S. 572.
  • † Joh. Kaspar Wolff . In: Swiss construction newspaper . Band 17 , No. 18 , 1891, S. 114 ( Online on: E-periodic ).
  • Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture ISNA 1850–1920. Society for Swiss art history GSK, Bern 1996/2004.
  • Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 1, Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005.
  • Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 2, Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005.
  • Art guide through Switzerland. Volume 3, Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2006.
  1. ↑ Art guide through Switzerland, Volume 2. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005, p. 19.

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