Albert Schweizer

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Painter Albert Schweizer, photo taken around 1905.

Albert Schweizer (born March 19, 1885 in Bärenwil , † July 19, 1948 in Liestal ) was a Swiss artist and landscape painter from Basel .

biography

Albert Schweizer grew up in his parents' farm in Bärenwil and attended school in Langenbruck and later in Waldenburg . He was a stubborn fellow, but he was constantly struggling with his health. He was unable to fulfill his greatest career wish, a veterinarian , and he was forced to turn to philology and art history , studying the French language and art history in Lausanne .

Because of his illnesses, however, he took up paintbrushes and palettes more and more often and found his new way of becoming a painter in his homeland through tough self-study . He loved the play of colors in wondrous nature and brought it to life in his oil paintings . In 1914 he was able to exhibit six of his landscape paintings for the first time at the Christmas exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel . He let his skills, painting style and composition of colors mature and further exhibitions followed in Olten , Solothurn , Balsthal , Liestal and Basel . Again and again, the painter was drawn beyond the borders of his homeland to the cities of art in Italy and France, and so he found many friends and lovers of his work. Albert Schweizer is not one of those great painters who have achieved fame, but he has become a master of his homeland and delighted many eyes and hearts with his pictures.

  • Olten social scene around the painter Albert Schweizer - around 1920 in the Gäu near Olten SO

  • Painter Albert Schweizer (right) on his parents' farm in Bärenwil BL - with colleague Ernst Jenni (left). Repairing the engine from the painter's limousine. Photo taken around 1935.

  • Painter Albert Schweizer at work on his easel in 1939. Located on Fraurütiweg by the Hotel ERICA above the village of Langenbruck BL.

  • Painter couple Albert (1885–1948) and Hanna (1901–1945) Schweizer-Martignoni; around 1939 in Bärenwil BL. Married in 1939, divorced in 1945.

  • Dürrenberg farm with Storchenflue - near Langenbruck BL. Oil on hard cardboard - format 32 × 24 cm; dated 1914.

  • View from Bärenwil BL on Wanne near Langenbruck. Oil on hard cardboard, format 90 × 60 cm; circa 1930.

  • Schlosshöchi at Holderbank SO; 1930. Oil on hard cardboard; Format 65 × 50 cm.

  • Jurahöfe near Les Cerlatez NE; approx. 1935. Oil on canvas; Format 85 × 60 cm.

literature

  • Baselbieter Heimatbuch VI , 1954

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personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Bärenwil
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1948
Place of death Liestal