Hermann Bollé

Hermann Bollé ( born September 18, 1845 in Cologne, † July 17, 1926 in Zagreb), Franco- German origin, was one of the most important architects in Croatia.

Life

After completion of the vocational school for civil engineering, he worked in the studio of the Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase, where he was involved in projects for churches and religious buildings. From 1872 he studied architecture at the Vienna Academy of Art and worked in parallel in the studio of the famous Austrian architect and cathedral architect Friedrich von Schmidt. In the years 1875 and 1876 he lived in Italy, where he met the Bishop Joseph Georg Strossmayer and Isidor Kršnjavi. This meeting drew his Journey to Croatia. Early as 1876 he came to Đakovo, where he took over the construction of the cathedral of St. Peter after the death of the architect K. Roesner.

In the same year he completed the restoration of Zagreb's St. Mark's Church according to the plans of Schmidt. Bollé settled permanently in 1878 in Zagreb down. Immediately a variety of architectural, cultural and social and educational projects he was entrusted.

He restored and built in Croatia many objects in a variety of epochal styles, the Museum of Arts and Crafts, the vocational school and the Mirogoj cemetery. In the spirit of romance, he renewed the cloisters of Marija Bistrica, the Zagreb Cathedral, the Episcopal seat and the curia of the Capitol in Zagreb. To this end, he designed the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci (Croatia ) in the Gothic Revival style.

Under his influence, even buildings in Zagreb urban life emerged, and he influenced all the important questions of the Zagreb cityscape design. Extensively, the number of his works and projects in the applied arts, from furniture to theatrical costumes and stagings through to glass art, jewelery, tableware, lighting, among others

Remarkably Bolles is cultural and educational work. He was an active member of Friends of Art and one of the founders of the Museum of Arts and Crafts and the vocational school, during which he also founded the School of Construction, which he directed 32 years. With his students, he also participated in major international exhibitions ( Trieste, 1882, Budapest in 1885 and 1886, Paris 1900), where he earned several high awards and honors. Despite the controversies that arise when viewing his work, Bollé has undoubtedly gained an important role in shaping the cityscape of Zagreb in the second half of the 19th century.