Alfred Marxer

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Alfred Marxer: Self-Portrait, 1914

Alfred Marxer (born June 28, 1876 in Turbenthal , † December 8, 1945 in Kilchberg ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Alfred Marxer was born in Turbenthal in 1876. He did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter . Years of traveling in Europe were followed by studies with Gabriel von Hackl and Rudolf von Seitz at the Munich Art Academy from 1897 .

As a graphic artist he illustrated posters and other printed works. (For example: Catalog of the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern 1914 and Pallieter by Felix Timmermans .) In 1914 Marxer stayed in Paris , from 1915 he lived in Kilchberg, Zurich .

In the 1920s he created some wall paintings in churches. In many cases he captured the landscape of Lake Zurich in pictures. After 1930 he wrote articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Alfred Marxer died in Kilchberg in 1945.

Works

Works by Alfred Marxer are represented in these collections, among others: Kunstmuseum Winterthur , Kunsthaus Zurich , the graphic collection of the ETH Zurich and the Swiss Social Archives . The mural in the Rüti ZH crematorium was created by Marxer, years before that in the southern hall of the Feldli cemetery in St. Gallen.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1911: Alfred and Eugen Feiks, Ernst Geiger, Alexandre Lunois, Alfred Marxer, Ludwig v. Hofmann. Kunsthaus Zurich .
  • 1917: Alfred Marxer, Rudolf Löw, Eduard Stiefel , Adolf Tièche , Emil Weber, Hans Trudel, Werner Weber, roller: E. Würtenberger, Otto Wyler , Bertha Züricher. Kunsthaus Zurich.
  • 1931/1932: Zurich portraits. Kunsthaus Zurich.
  • 1934: Grafa 2 - Graphic Exhibition in Zurich.
  • 1936: Fritz Boscovits, Pietro Chiesa, Alfred Marxer, Eduard Bick, Arnold Brügger , Adolf Fehr , Hermann Huber, Charles Hug , Helen Labhardt, Alexander Soldenhoff. Kunsthaus Zurich.
  • 1938: Alfred Marxer, Albert Reinhardt, Richard Seewald, John Torcapel, Eduard Weinmann, Marcel Wille, Eugen Zeller. Art association in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
  • 1939: Swiss National Exhibition
  • 1945, April / May: Together with Rudolf Mülli, Adolf Thomann and Hans Beat Wieland. Kunsthaus Zurich.
posthumously

Awards

literature

  • Willy Lang: Alfred Marxer. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 11, 1907, pp. 393–396.
  • The painter Alfred Marxer. New Year's Gazette of the Kilchberg Community, No. 19. Kilchberg 1978.
  • Eberhard Hanfstaengl : Alfred Marxer. In: The art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , Issue 9/10, 1920, pp. 190–192. on-line
  • MW: Alfred Marxer contained in Switzerland: Swiss illustrated magazine , Volume 21, year 1917, 9 pages digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Marxer in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  2. ^ Illustration in the Virtual Museum - Swiss National Exhibition, Bern 1914. Accessed on May 16, 2011.
  3. ^ Works by Alfred Marxer in the image and sound database of the Swiss Social Archives, accessed on February 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Peter Meyer: The crematorium in Rüti-Zurich. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , 95/96 (1930), no . 5, p. 68. doi : 10.5169 / seals-43942
  5. ^ Peter Röllin, Daniel Studer: St. Gallen - topographical inventory. In: INSA: Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture, 1850–1920. Vol. 8, 1996. p. 120. doi : 10.5169 / seals-9217
  6. ^ Exhibition catalog: Exhibition in the Museum of Alfred Marxer, October 1 - 22, 1916. Kunstverein Winterthur, Winterthur 1916.
  7. ^ Painting exhibition by Alfred Marxer in the museum, February 14 to March 14, 1926. Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein Winterthur, Winterthur 1926.
  8. ↑ Exhibitions 1911. Accessed on February 2, 2016 from the website of the Zürcher Kunsthaus.
  9. ^ Exhibitions in 1917. On the website of the Zürcher Kunsthaus, accessed on February 2, 2016.
  10. ^ Exhibition directory of the Kunsthaus Zürich. Retrieved on May 16, 2011 (PDF file, 144 kB.)
  11. ^ Entry in the archive of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  12. ^ Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.): Exhibition Kunsthaus Zürich, April 14 to May 13, 1945 - catalog with introduction. Exhibition catalog. Zurich 1945.
  13. ^ Entry in the archive of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Retrieved February 2, 2016.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Marxer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Turbenthal
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1945
Place of death Kilchberg ZH