Edouard Boschey

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Édouard Boschey (* 1907 in Ostend , Belgium ; † 1988 ) was a Belgian- Swiss painter of Art brut .

life and work

Édouard Boschey was born in Ostend, Belgium. His father died during the First World War and Édouard was sent to Switzerland as a refugee. He was taken in by a family in Glovelier in the Jura and attended elementary school there before starting to work on the family business. After the death of his foster parents, he had to leave the farm in 1945. He built a hut in the forest, where he lived almost like a hermit from his work as a woodcutter and from the occasional other occupation.

At around the age of sixty-five, Boschey began carving and drawing in wood and roots. At the time, he was living in a retirement home because of his deteriorating health. In the last few years of his life he stopped carving but continued to draw. He used small paper, some of the corners of which he rounded off with scissors. His works show a colorful world in which plant elements and geometric shapes, small buildings and starry skies intertwine.

Groups of works by Boschey can be found in the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne and in the museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015–2016 Architectures, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne.

literature

  • Fascicule de l'Art Brut, No. 16. Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography and work appraisal based on the portrait on the website of the Collection de l'Art Brut.
  2. ↑ See list of artists on the website of the Museum im Lagerhaus.
  3. ↑ See Sarah Lombardi (ed.): Architectures, Lausanne: Collection de l'Art Brut / Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Boschey, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Swiss Art Brut artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostend , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 1988