Alfred Bartoletti

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Alfred Bartoletti (1907-1979)

Alfred Bartoletti (born February 23, 1907 in Lucerne ; † March 14, 1979 in Lucerne) was a Swiss painter and furniture designer .

Life

Alfred Bartoletti was born in 1907 to Tuscan parents in Lucerne and grew up with two sisters in the city on Lake Lucerne . His father, Carlo Bartoletti, was a master painter and ran a painting business in Lucerne.

"Barto" as his friends called him, studied at the School of Applied Arts Lucerne and held for study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence , at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome , as well as Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson in Paris on. In 1936 and 1947 Bartoletti made long study trips through the USA .

In Raja Haefeli he found a life partner with whom he shared a cosmopolitan outlook, fluency in languages, a sense of humor, and a joy in art, music and literature. The two married in 1963.

At the end of the 1960s, Bartoletti gave up the painting business that he had taken over from his father and devoted himself only to the artistic side of painting.

Bartoletti spent most of his life in Lucerne and temporarily in his adopted home in southern France , where he built a house in 1960. In 1979 he died of an incurable disease in Lucerne.

Painting style

Landscape (Paysage), 1955

In the beginning Bartoletti painted objects , landscapes as well as abstractions . For his pictures he preferred motifs from the southern French landscape.

In the early thirties, the artist experimented with designing furniture and other furnishings. Among other things, he constructed new types of tubular steel furniture and glass tables, carried out interior design work and designed carpets . His studio on Steinhofstrasse in Lucerne was also furnished in a very modern way and equipped with his own works.

In the early 1950s, Bartoletti returned to Paris for longer stays. There he was inspired by the abstract expressionism of the École de Paris with Roger Bissière and Nicolas de Staël , but also by the meditative-lyrical abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee and Mark Rothko .

From the mid-fifties onwards, Bartoletti devoted himself entirely to abstract art, which deals with the differentiation of color and light values. He found his own style in compositions that are based on a geometric pictorial architecture and are composed primarily of shapes such as trapezoids and rectangles .

Bartoletti made the acquaintance of many great artists of his time. In southern France he was in exchange with Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger , in Paris he met Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay , Joan Miró , Piet Mondrian , Nicolas de Staël and Serge Poliakoff . He was close friends with Nicolas de Stäel, Alexandre Istrati and Natalia Dumitresco . In this way he was in direct contact with modern art and always dealt with new styles. Nevertheless, he named three names as his most important role models: Tizian , Paul Cézanne and Georges Braque .

Exhibitions

Most important group exhibitions

Bartoletti first participated in exhibitions at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in Paris in 1932 at the age of 25. This turned out to be the predecessor of the later Salon de Mai .

From 1939 to 1943 he joined the artist group " Allianz ", which u. a. and Max Bill , Paul Klee, Le Corbusier , Richard Paul Lohse and Walter Kurt Wiemken belonged. As a member of this association of modern artists, he took part in various Swiss and central Swiss art exhibitions for many years.

  • 1932-1937 Salon des Surindépendants, Paris
  • 1939 - 1943 numerous group exhibitions as a member of the artist group "Allianz"
  • 1930 - 1965 “Christmas exhibitions of central Swiss artists”, Lucerne Art Museum
  • 1951 “Swiss Art Exhibitions”, Bern
  • 1956 “Swiss Art Exhibitions”, Basel
  • 1966 "Summer 1966", Raeber Gallery in Lucerne
  • from 1968 participation in group exhibitions at the Cavalero Gallery in Cannes
  • 1970 "Summer 1970", Raeber Gallery in Lucerne
  • 1971 "Summer 1971", Raeber Gallery in Lucerne
  • 1974 Participation in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris at the invitation of the painter Luc Peire

Most important solo exhibitions

It was not until 1961, when Bartoletti was already 54 years old, that his first solo exhibition took place in “Galerie 21” in Zurich . The first solo exhibition in his home town of Lucerne was only held three years after his death. His wife Raja organized the retrospective in the Lucerne Kornschütte in 1982.

  • 1961 Gallery 21, Zurich
  • 1966 Gallery “Platte 27”, Zurich
  • 1972 Walcheturm gallery with sculptor Katharina Sallenbach , Zurich
  • 1975 Walcheturm Gallery, Zurich
  • 1979 Cavalero Gallery, Cannes (first solo exhibition in France )
  • 1982 Kornschütte, Lucerne (first solo exhibition in Lucerne)
  • 1988 Galerie Twerenbold, Lucerne
  • 1992 Lötscher Gallery, Lucerne

literature

  • Mayor, Guy André: Morgenweg & Abendritt: Texts on language, literature and visual arts . Ars pro toto publishing house, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522436-9-5 .
  • Rather reserved: Carefully designed color scores by the painter Bartoletti - exhibition at the Twerenbold gallery . Luzerner Tagblatt. City of Lucerne. April 25, 1988: p. 11
  • Bartoletti, Raja et al .: Alfred Bartoletti 1907-1979 . Graphic company Raeber AG, Lucerne 1982
  • Intimate dialogue between color and light: The painter Alfred Bartoletti (1907 to 1979): first Lucerne solo exhibition in the Kornschütte. Luzerner Tagblatt. City of Lucerne. September 20, 1982: p. 11
  • Mayor, Guy André: « Bartos» pictures: reductions on the inner sound. Lucerne latest news. September 18, 1982
  • ER: † Painter Alfred Bartoletti . Luzerner Tagblatt. City of Lucerne. March 23, 1979
  • e. Alfred Bartoletti: Guest at a Zurich gallery . Luzerner Tagblatt. November 14, 1966
  • ext .: visit to Alfred Bartoletti's artist studio . Luzerner Tagblatt on the weekend. The time. April 6, 1963
  • "Alliance" Association of Modern Swiss Artists: Almanac of New Art in Switzerland . uto-buchdruckerei ag, Zurich 1940

Web links

Commons : Alfred Bartoletti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography | Alfred Bartoletti. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bartoletti, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter of modern, abstract art
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1979
Place of death Lucerne , Switzerland