Melchior Berri

Melchior Berri ( born October 20, 1801 in Basel, † May 12, 1854 ) was a Swiss architect from Basel, son of Melchior, a priest in Munich stone, and the Apollonia Streckeisen; He married Margaretha 1832 Simone Burckhardt of Basel.

Biography

Berri grew up as the son of a pastor up in Basel and Munich stone. Between 1817 and 1823 he trained, among others, the famous architect Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe. He then worked with the architect Jean -Nicolas Huyot in Paris and studied at the Academy.

In 1826 he traveled to Italy together with Josef Berckmüller: S. 26, where he was interested in the buildings and the wall paintings in Pompeii, but also the Renaissance palaces in Rome. In this way he had manual dexterity as a stonemason, plasterers and bricklayers appropriated, is practiced in Landschaftes and figure drawing and studied civil engineering subjects.

1828 Melchior Berri opened in Basel a construction business and a construction and drawing school. Its national significance owed ​​Berri first the Basel Museum at the Augustiner Gasse, the only surviving monumental, but also his designs for a Zurich and Bern Town Hall, and the district plans for Luzern and Basel. 1829 the architect Melchior Berri with the project of building a summer house by the builder Ludwig August Sarasin has been entrusted. The builder Ludwig August Sarasin died in 1831 before his summer residence. Through marriage, one of the two daughters Sarasin 's summer house came into the possession of Ehinger family and this summer house is now known as Villa Eringer.

At Berri's early works included the then built 1829/31 Blömleintheater in the theater street in Basel, the remains of which disappeared completely in 1969. Also, this includes the abdication chapel in today Rosentalanlage, built in 1832. It once stood in the oldest part of the churchyard and is now the only building of the burial place.

In the same year, 1832, Melchior Berri built on the Malzgasse a two -story house, which has been extended by a rear cultivation in 1842.

Berri was also a member of the Basel Grand Council, the Construction Committee and 1841 was president of the Association of Swiss Engineers and Architects ( SIA ). He earned out -reaching fame as an architect of the neoclassical style via Switzerland and was as Dr. hc Honorary member of two British architecture associations.

The tension between the requirements to the contractor and to the artist, but perhaps also the narrowness of small-town relationships could be moody and Berri 1854, he took his own life.

Legacy

Structures

  • Villa Ehinger, in the district New World, Munich stone - 1829/32
  • Old chapel in Riehen - 1834/35
  • Museum of Natural History and Ethnology, Basel - 1842-49
  • Ehem. Sarasinsche Bandfabrik ( Hostel ), Basel - 1850/51
  • Several buildings in the Botanical Garden Brügg Lingen, including the Orangerie, barn and tenant house - 1837-39 (See Brüglinger level)

Miscellaneous

  • Tombs
  • Getting more colored stamp, Basel Dybli - 1845
  • Mailboxes ( Basel Dybli )
  • Wells ( inter alia trident fountain, Basel - 1837)

Canceled

  • City Casino Basel - 1821-1824; canceled in 1949
  • Blömleintheater, Basel - 1829; demolished in 1969
  • Archers, Bern 1830-1833; canceled
  • Railway gate in the city walls of Basel - 1844; canceled in 1880
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