Eugène Jost (18 September 1865 – 24 January 1946) was a Swiss architect of the
Belle Époque
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.
Life
Eugène Jost was born on 18 September 1865 in
Corsier-sur-Vevey
Corsier-sur-Vevey is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Corsier-sur-Vevey is first mentioned in 1079 as ''Corise''. Until 1953 it was known as ''Corsier''.
Geography
Corsier-s ...
. He initially studied at the industrial school in Corsier before moving to Paris, where he studied architecture at the
école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
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between 1884 and 1891 under
Louis-Jules André
Louis-Jules André (; 24 June 1819 – 30 January 1890) was a French academic architect and the head of an important ''atelier'' at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography
Born in Paris, André attended the École des Beaux-Arts and took the P ...
then
Victor Laloux
Victor-Alexandre-Frédéric Laloux (; 15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.
Life
Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his st ...
. He won several prizes, medals and internal competitions and then returned to Switzerland, specializing in
hotel
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s.
He set up his practice in
Montreux
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, a wealthy tourist spot. In twenty years he built nearly fifty buildings, mostly long-lasting and large. In 1904 he moved to Lausanne in the wake of several projects (
hôtel des Postes on
Saint-François, restoration of
château Saint-Maire
Château Saint-Maire (Saint-Maire Castle) is a castle in Lausanne, Switzerland, that serves as the seat of the cantonal government, the Council of State of Vaud. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
History
The château was ...
and design for a room at the
Grand Conseil vaudois). He won first prize in the national competition for the Hôtel des Postes in
Bern
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and second prize for that in
Zürich
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and also created commemorative monuments to
William Tell
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According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, ...
,
Alexandre Vinet
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (17 June 17974 May 1847) was a Swiss literary critic and theologian.
Literary critic
He was born near Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the Fren ...
and
Major Davel. His pace of work was slowed by the
First World War
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and he retired for good in 1931.
He died on 24 January 1946 in
Lausanne
Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...
.
References
Bibliography
* Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber, ''Architektenlexikon der Schweiz 19./20. Jahrhundert'', Bâle, Boston, Berlin 1998, pp. 300–301.
* Dave Lüthi (ed), ''Eugène Jost : architecte du passé retrouvé'', Lausanne Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (Les archives de la construction moderne 8), 2001.
* Dave Lüthi, ''Pour une Cité pittoresque : quatre projets de l'architecte Eugène Jost (1894-1899)'', in ''Mémoire vive, pages d'histoire lausannoises'', 10, , 2001.
* Roland Flückiger-Seiler, ''Hotelträume : zwischen Gletschern und Palmen, Schweizer Tourismus und Hotelbau, 1830-1920'', Baden : Hier + Jetzt Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, 2005.
* ''Eugène Jost, architecte: 1865-1946'' in: ''A suivre'' (Bulletin de la Section vaudoise de Patrimoine suisse) n° 56 et 57 (janvier-mai 2012).
Sources
* ''Patrie suisse'', 1906, no 340, p. 326.
* "Eugène Jost, architecte", in ''Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande'', 1946, p. 108
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base de données du centenaire du
palais de Rumine de la
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne
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''.
* Dagmar Böcker, «
Eugène Jost» dans le ''
Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse
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* Rucki-Huber, ''Architektenlexikon'', pp. 300–301.
*
Eugène Jost, architecte du passé retrouvé cat. expo. Lausanne, 2001 ''Le Temps'' 26 juin 2001 p. 40.
* Dave Lüthi, Matthieu Jaccard ''Eugène Jost 1865-1946, travels in Lausanne and Montreux,'' Lausanne, 2001.
Château Saint-Maire : Le projet Jost
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People from Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District
1865 births
1946 deaths
19th-century Swiss architects
20th-century Swiss architects
Belle Époque