Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli

Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli ( born January 29, 1842 in Zurich, † July 27, 1930 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect in Germany and from 1881 worked in Zurich since 1866.

Life

The son of the renowned legal scholar Johann Caspar Bluntschli was a pupil of Gottfried Semper in Zurich, then went to Florence in 1863, in 1864 in Paris at the Ecole supérieure national des beaux -arts de Paris, and finally in 1866 to Heidelberg.

With Karl Jonas Mylius he had in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1881 a successful office community, in 1876 won the architecture competition for the new building of the Hamburg City Hall among others. The planned construction, however, was not realized. Was built in 1876 Bluntschli and Mylius in Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Hof Hotel. In addition, their planning for the Vienna Central Cemetery was realized, at the western edge of the Mylius - Bluntschli Street is reminiscent of both today.

Bluntschli was builder of numerous magnificent buildings and palaces. From 1881 to 1914 he served as Professor Semper's successor at the building of the Polytechnic Institute (now ETH) in Zurich.

In Zurich, among many other buildings particularly outstanding: the Protestant church Enge on a hill in the vicinity of Lake Zurich.

His grave is in the cemetery Sihlfeld.

Works and designs

Gallery

The church Enge from below

The Neumünster Church, rebuilt by Bluntschli