Adolf Tièche

Adolf Tièche (born April 12, 1877 in Bern ; † November 8, 1957 there ; authorized to reside in Reconvilier ) was a Swiss architecture and landscape painter .

Life

The son of the architect Paul Adolphe Tièche completed after receipt of the federal maturity , the study of architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . Tièche turned to architectural painting in particular. When he visited Versaille in 1900 , he decided to become a painter and studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris . His great role model was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot . After study trips that took him through Italy , Norway , Germany , Austria , Greece , North Africa and France , he settled permanently in his hometown of Bern in 1904. In Switzerland, he mainly painted his landscapes in Gstaad , Lauenen , Melchsee-Frutt and the Engadin . Tièche campaigned for the preservation of old Bern buildings a. a. for the old historical museum and the Käfigturm .

Tièche was a representative of the "Bern School" led by Ferdinand Hodler , which also included Traugott Senn , Emil Cardinaux , Eduard Boss , Ernst Linck , Emil Prochaska (1874–1948) and Max Eugen Brack (1878–1950).

For many years, Tièche was President of the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects Section Bern (today GSMB ) and the main founder of the Kunsthalle Bern . For eight years he also had the works of art hanging at all major exhibitions. Tièche's artistic work mainly includes watercolors and red chalk drawings . The Mappenwerk From the Bernese country gentleman sitting of the 18th century he gave the Kunstmuseum Bern . In 1913 the work was published by Kaiser-Verlag in Bern.

Tièche died in autumn 1957 at the age of 81.

Further publications

• Old Bern: 26 hand drawings [of which 1 on the folder] in red chalk = Vieux Berne. 26 designs à la Sanguine, A. Francke, Bern, 1909
• Bern, Kaiser-Verlag, Bern, 1914
• Official guide [for the] Swiss National Exhibition in Bern, May 15-15. October 1914: With a colored monumental plan , Kümmerly & Frey, Bern, 1914
• together with Erwin Heimann : Lights on Bern: a guide to Bern and the Bernese, Paul Haupt, Bern, 1976

literature

• Anette Keo alias Ana Teh (Ed.): 100 Years of the SGBK Section Bern: 1909-2009 (= Centenaire SSFA Section Berne), Worb 2009
• Ernst Kreidolf , Adolphe Tièche: [Exhibition] Kunsthalle Bern, February 22 to March 23, 1958, Die Kunsthalle , Bern, 1958
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . P. 36.
• Walter Schweizer: Adolf Tièche is 60 years old . In: The Bern Week in Word and Image , Vol. 27, 1937, pp. 353–354. ( e-periodica )

Web links

Commons : Adolf Tièche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Adolf Tièche in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tièche, Adolf. In: Sikart (status: 2018), accessed on February 23, 2018.