Eduard Bick
Eduard Bick (born January 15, 1883 in Wil ; † August 15, 1947 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor , painter , draftsman and graphic artist .
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life and work
Eduard Bicks grandfather and father were silver and goldsmiths in Wil. After an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in Innsbruck and Altena , Bick became a student at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau for a short time in 1905 . From 1905 to 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the "Painting School Seitz".
In the spring of 1908 Bick moved to Rome where he met Hermann Huber , Reinhold Kündig and Victor Schulte, with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and where he met other German artists. Bick started sculpting in Rome.
From 1910 to 1914 he lived in Berlin with interruptions in order to return to Switzerland when the war broke out. In 1916 Bick made the acquaintance of Eduard von der Heydt , who persuaded him to return to Berlin and gave Bick orders. In the years from 1910 to 1919, numerous sculptures and busts made of marble and bronze and, for the first time, expressive busts in wood were created during the war years. In Berlin, Bick met his future wife Angelika Ohloff.
Bick finally returned to Switzerland in 1919 and lived first in Meilen and from 1921 in Zurich, where he executed numerous works in public spaces. As a painter, Bick created landscape paintings, still lifes and figure paintings in watercolor and oil and wax colors. His oeuvre includes numerous drawings, lithographs, etchings, copperplate engravings and woodcuts. In 1910, 1921 and 1922 Bick was awarded a federal art scholarship .
In 1936, Bick bought his own house in Sant'Abbondio . After his wife Angelika Bick bequeathed almost all of her husband's figures and pictures to Swiss museums and transferred the property in Ticino to the "Eduard Bick Foundation" established for this purpose, she died in 1956.
In 1948 the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft dedicated the “New Year's Sheet”, a booklet with work documentation and appreciation a. a. an impressive poetic epic by Konrad Bänninger about his friend Bick.
Eduard Bick Foundation
In 1956 Eduard Bick's wife Angelika died in Zurich after she had bequeathed the land and house in Sant'Abbondio to an Eduard Bick Foundation to be set up. Since 1959, Bicks former studio house has been available to artists for work stays. In 1994 a residential studio was added in Sant'Abbondio, and in 2001 a studio house in Intragna . The president of the board of trustees is the artist and author Heinrich Gartentor .
literature
- Theodor Vollbehr : The sculptor Eduard Bick In: German art and decoration, Vol. 44, 1919, pp. 260-263
- Hermann Ganz: Eduard Bick In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 8, 1921, pp. 57–62
- The sculptor Eduard Bick In: Architecture and Art , Vol. 15, 1928, pp. 91–96
- Eduard Briner: The sculptor Eduard Bick In: The art for everyone, Vol. 48, 1932/33, pp. 373–376
- GSMBA : special edition on Eduard Bick In: Schweizer Kunst , Vol. 8, 1993, pp. 1–96
Web links
- Bick, Eduard. In: Sikart
- Ateliers Eduard Bick , website of the Eduard Bick Foundation
Individual evidence
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^ Matriculation book 1905, Eduard Bick . Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
- ↑ House in Sant'Abbondio
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bick, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wil |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1947 |
| Place of death | Zurich |