Alois Carigiet

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Alois Carigiet [ kariˈdʑɛt ] (born August 30, 1902 Trun , Graubünden ; † August 1, 1985 Trun) was a Swiss painter , draftsman , lithographer and author of children's books .

Life

Pictures of Carigiet at the Catholic Church Vella

After the first years of childhood on a farm in Trun, the family moved to Chur in 1911 , where he attended secondary school and canton school, which Carigiet dropped out in 1918. He completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and went to Zurich in 1923 , where he worked in Max Dalang's (1882–1965) advertising studio. In 1927 he opened his own studio, in which he designed sets and costumes for a cabaret. In 1933 he was co-founder of the Cabaret Cornichon . Alois Carigiet did a large number of commercial graphic works from this period, such as the red clover leaf of the national lottery from 1937 and the poster for the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1939 , after a first poster competition, which Carigiet also won, was unsatisfactory.

In 1938, as a work not intended for the public at the time, a wine cellar painting of the former Fraumünsterkeller restaurant in Zurich's Metropol was created. In 1939, when he was dissatisfied with the situation of having to do commissioned work as an illustrator, he switched from graphic designer to freelance artist and returned to Graubünden when he moved to Platenga in Obersaxen . In 1942 he married and the couple had two children. There he also worked on the illustration of children's books. The best known was the Schellenursli , which was written by Selina Chönz and with which the Engadin custom Chalandamarz became world famous. The following children's books such as Flurina and the Wild Bird did not quite achieve this level of awareness, but are no less valuable from an artistic point of view.

Exhibitions in Schaffhausen , Solothurn and Geneva followed . In 1950 he temporarily moved back to Zurich to create the mural Allegro con Spirito in the Muraltengut , which the city bought in 1944 for representation purposes . In 1956 he painted the facade of the house "Schwarzer Adler" in Stein am Rhein on behalf of the Falken brewery (Schaffhausen) . In 1960 he returned to his home in Graubünden in Trun and continued to devote himself to the illustration of books. He also wrote children's books himself.

A room in the Sursilvan Museum in Trun is dedicated to the work of Alois Carigiet . Alois Carigiet was the older brother of the future actor Zarli Carigiet .

Awards and honors

Works

Children's books

Flurina and Schellenursli at a house in Davos-Laret
  • Bell Ursli. (1945, Selina Chönz). 32nd edition (2015) Orell Füssli, Zurich, ISBN 3-280-01644-4 .
  • Flurina and the wild bird. (1952, Selina Chönz). 26th edition (2015).
  • The big snow. (1953, Selina Chönz). 23rd edition (2013) Orell Füssli, Zurich, ISBN 3-280-01443-3 .
  • Shaggy, bitch and dwarf. (1965). 21st edition (2014) Orell Füssli, Zurich, ISBN 3-280-01441-7 .
  • Pear tree, birch, barberry. (1967). 14th edition (2012) Orell Füssli, Zurich, ISBN 3-280-01534-0 .
  • Maurus and Madleina. (1969). 9th edition Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-01442-5 .

literature

documentary

  • Alois Carigiet , film portrait about the painter Alois Carigiet - a production by Schweizer Fernsehen DRS (45 min.) Directed by Gaudenz Meili , 1971.

Web links

Commons : Alois Carigiet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZZ Libro
  2. ^ NN: Swiss artist posters [pictures] . In: Du - the magazine of culture . tape 45 , no. 3 , 1985, pp. 42 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-296454 .
  3. ^ Peter Meyer: Two federal poster competitions . In: The work . tape 25 , no. 1 , 1938, p. 29 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-86686 .
  4. ↑ Nicolas Baerlocher (Ed.): Metropol Zurich - A business building by Clariden Leu . NZZ Libro, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-377-0 , p. 137, 218-221 .
  5. ^ NN: Alois Carigiet on the 80th birthday . In: Du - the magazine of culture . tape 42 , no. 8 , 1982, pp. 42 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-304503 .
  6. ^ Facade painting in Stein am Rhein: Hotel Adler with original pictures by Alois Carigiet.
  7. ^ Film portrait about Alois Carigiet (during his lifetime) by Gaudenz Meili
personal data
SURNAME Carigiet, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist, painter and author of children's books
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Trun GR
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1985
Place of death Trun GR