Arnold Huggler

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Uli der Knecht, Gotthelf-Brunnen in Lützelflüh, 1942
The sculpture of two little lions in the Landenberg green area in Wipkingen, 1942
»Bär«, in the Wipkingen community facility in 1958
Girl figure on the lake promenade in Brienz BE in memory of Albert Streich
Deer sculpture in the Park im Grüene that was given to Gottlieb Duttweiler in 1958 for his seventieth birthday.

Arnold Huggler (born February 12, 1894 in Brienz , † April 4, 1988 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor who created numerous fountains, animal sculptures, statues and portrait busts.

Education and career

Arnold Huggler, son of the Brienz carver Peter Huggler, came from a well-known family of wood carvers in the Bernese Oberland. From 1909 to 1914 he learned the craft at the Brienzer Schnitzlerschule , from 1919 to 1922 he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and in 1922 was a master student of Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski . From 1919 to 1936 he stayed in Paris, with some study visits to Europe - in 1924 he was in Rome, in 1928 in London, in 1930 in Spain and in 1934 in Berlin. In 1923 he opened his own studio in Paris and in 1925/1926 he had André Lurçat build a house in the style of classical modernism in the small artists' colony Cité Seurat. Its importance as early as 1931 can be seen in the exhibition at the Berner Kunsthaus, where he - as the only sculptor - exhibited together with Paul Klee , Maurice de Vlaminck , Walter Helbig and Philipp Bauknecht . Since returning to Switzerland in 1936, he lived in Zurich, where most of his public works were created. He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

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Huggler worked purely figuratively as a sculptor , for example in marble, sandstone, but also artificial stone, and as a sculptor , mainly bronzes and plaster. The themes of his work, which has been uniform over the decades, concentrate on the human figure, smaller and larger than life, a large number of portrait busts, most of which are privately owned, and above all animal sculptures. With her, "the form follows from the gesture": how the deer eats, lies down, like the dog crouches alertly. As early as 1931, when he was in his late thirties and still living in Paris, Switzerland attested that he enjoyed the craft. Attention was drawn to its formal simplicity, even rigor, which was nourished by a love for the early Greeks and rejected the psychologizations of Rodin, for example. When the first monograph of the artist and his work was published on the occasion of his 60th birthday, the reviewers emphasized the tendency (and the relationship) between realism and stylization.

The central works the gate group two Lying in a water carrier were called at the Zanggerstrasse about, of life-size female nudes from Pouillenay marble or even the 2.85 m high bronze Kontrapost . Later, Huggler's main works were a heraldic goat at the entrance to the Allerheiligen Museum in Schaffhausen, the Gotthelf bust in the rose garden in Bern , the artillery memorial in Wangen an der Aare and the miners memorial on Grimselstrasse.

Noteworthy in Zurich are the two girls on Langmauerstrasse, the group of lions from the Waidmatt building cooperative, a group of deer on Winterthurerstrasse that was exhibited in Paris in 1937, a bust of Karl Attenhofer in the Tonhalle, a fox on Berninaplatz, and the statue of Christoph Froschauer on Pelikanstrasse and two young lions in the Landenberg area.

List of works (selection)

According to Huggler, Griot (1954), public works or shown in exhibitions

  • Mother and child , bronze relief, 35 × 40 cm, Brienz cemetery, 1920
  • Bear , bronze, 36 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern , 1921
  • Portrait bust Dr. Adolf Guggenbühl , bronze, 56 cm, Zurich, 1922
  • Melchtal , plaster relief, 220 × 80 cm, 1922 (exhibited at the Swiss Art Association)
  • Landsknecht , plaster, 80 cm, 1922 (exhibited in Salon d'Automne, Paris)
  • Woman with a pigeon , bronze, 69 cm, 1923
  • Capricorn , bronze, 57 cm, Burden Collection, New York, 1924
  • Lion with lyre , bronze, 38 cm, Zurich men's choir, 1924
  • Portrait bust Meinrad Lienert , bronze, 42 cm, Disteli-Museum , Olten, 1924
  • Standing female figure , bronze, 75 cm, private collection, Bern, 1926 (exhibited in the Tokyo sculpture show)
  • Belgian horse , bronze, 37 cm, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 1927
  • Porteur d´Amphore , artificial stone, 280 cm, Scheuchzerstr. Zurich, 1927
  • Two seated girl figures , stone, 130 cm, Langmauerstr. Zurich, 1928
  • Doe with fawn , bronze, 135 cm, Winterthurerstr. Zurich, 1929 (exhibited in the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1937)
  • Ibex , bronze, 37 cm, 1929 (Shell Prize for Klausen race )
  • Standing female figure , Stein, Kunstmuseum Bern, 1932
  • Pax , female statuette, bronze, 78 cm, Swiss Legation, Paris, 1933
  • Gotthelf bust , bronze, 64 cm, Rosengarten Bern, 1933 (exhibited at the National Exhibition 1939 , Zurich)
  • Artillery , stone relief, 600 × 90 cm, Wangen an der Aare, 1934
  • Heinrich Bullinger bust , plaster, larger than life, 1934
  • Deer group , bronze, 135 cm, Kleinknecht Collection, Strasbourg, 1935
  • Young girl with arms raised , bronze, 87 cm, 1935
  • Portrait bust Ferdinand Dobler , bronze, 48 cm, Chambre de Commerce, Paris, 1936
  • Thoroughbred horse , bronze, 37 cm, Zurich Officers' Riding Club, 1936
  • Kälbli , plaster, 95 cm, 1937
  • Otter , stone, 82 cm, Burden Collection, New York, 1937
  • Schaffhauserbock , bronze, 320 cm, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, 1938
  • Gottfried Peter , bronze, 180 cm, Zollikofen Dairy School, Bern, 1938
  • Standing girl , Jura marble, 84 cm, 1938
  • Group of deer , life size, National Exhibition 1939, Zurich, 1939
  • Kälbli , life-size, National Exhibition 1939, Zurich, 1939
  • Glassblower , life-size, National Exhibition 1939, Zurich, 1939
  • Carl Attenhofer bust , bronze, 52 cm, Tonhalle , Zurich, 1939
  • Ten allegorical figures , painted stucco, each 80 cm, Synodalsaal Bern, 1940
  • Fuchs , bronze, 63 cm, Berninaplatz, Zurich, 1940
  • Ibex , patinated plaster, 246 cm, 1940 (exhibited at the New York World's Fair , 1940)
  • Christoph Froschauer , bronze, 280 cm, Haus zum neue Froschauer, Zurich, 1941
  • Dressed dancer with arms raised , bronze, 73 cm, 1941
  • Uli the servant , bronze, 210 cm, Lützelflüh, 1942
  • Two young lions , Jura marble, 80 × 140 cm, Landenberg-Anlage Zurich, 1942
  • Dolphin , ceramic relief, Fluntern school building, Zurich 1943
  • Sleeping duck , bronze, 47 cm long, Government of the Canton of Zurich, 1943
  • Four ducks , bronze, 130 cm long, Ilgenschulhaus, Zurich, 1946
  • Peasant girl with calf , plaster (design), 168 cm, 1948
  • Girl with Kesseli , stone, 84 cm, 1948
  • Standing young dachshund , bronze, 14 cm, 1948
  • Gottfried Gnägi , bronze bust and Laufenerstein, 180 cm, Schwadernau, 1949
  • Young bull , bronze, 27 cm, Government of the Canton of Zurich, 1949
  • Horses , stone relief, 80 × 70 cm, Manegg Cemetery , Zurich, 1950
  • Deer group , bronze, 94 cm, Neue Töchterschule, Zurich, 1950
  • Foal , plaster of paris (draft), 147 cm, 1950
  • Trotting horse , bronze, 27 cm, Swiss Confederation, 1950
  • Fountain with cat , Swiss stone pine, 162 cm, Katzensee , Zurich, 1950
  • Mythical animal , Grimsel granite, 190 cm long, Saatlen school building, Zurich, 1951
  • Decorative fountain , Grimsel granite, 125 cm diameter, Saatlen school building, Zurich, 1951
  • Bull , bronze, 32 cm, Government of the Canton of Thurgau, 1951
  • Hahn , bronze, 70 cm, Mühlebachschulhaus Zurich, 1952
  • Deer group , bronze, 105 cm, Dürrenast Schoolhouse Thun, 1952
  • The sowing man , bronze, 74 cm, Hondrich Alpine Farm School, 1952
  • Commemorative plaque Otto Furrer , bronze, 145 cm, Zermatt, 1952
  • Foal group , bronze, 145 cm, Kreuzlingen, 1953
  • Group of lions , bronze, 205 cm long, Waidmatt Zurich building cooperative 1953

literature

  • Gubert Griot, Arnold Huggler: Arnold Huggler: Sculptures . Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • NN: Arnold Huggler died . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 80 , April 7, 1988, pp. a30 .

supporting documents

  1. ^ Association for Economic History Studies Zurich (ed.), Sigmund Widmer : Gottlieb Duttweiler (1888–1962) , Tschudi, Glarus, 1985, p. 60 (volume 42 of Swiss pioneers in business and technology )
  2. ↑ The biography, in whose data partly contradicting information is given, follows Gubert Griot, Arnold Huggler: Arnold Huggler: Sculptures . Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich 1954, p. 16 .
  3. ^ Freddy Sauter: Atelier houses for Swiss artists in Paris by architect André Lurçat . In: The work . tape 18 , no. 1 , 1931, p. 4–12 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-81912 .
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthaus Bern
  5. ↑ P. Wd .: Animal sculptures by Arnold Huggler . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 19 , January 24, 1994, pp. 25 .
  6. ^ Hermann Ganz: Arnold Huggler . In: The work . tape 18 , no. 2 , 1931, p. 33-39 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-81919 .
  7. ^ E. Briner: sculptures by Arnold Huggler . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 72 , no. 29 , 1954, pp. 431 ( online ).
  8. ^ Hermann Ganz: Arnold Huggler . In: The work . tape 18 , no. 2 , 1931, p. 33-39 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-81919 .
  9. ↑ r .: The sculptor Arnold Huggler . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . tape 175 , no. 343 , February 12, 1954, p. c1 .
  10. ^ NN: Arnold Huggler died . No. 80 , p. a30 .
  11. ↑ r .: Arnold Huggler, Max Billetter, Walter Meter - Kunstsalon Wolfsberg . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 71 , February 12, 1974, p. 25 .

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personal data
SURNAME Huggler, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Brienz BE
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1988
Place of death Zurich