August Boesch

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August Bösch (born August 20, 1857 in Ebnat , † August 11, 1911 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor and medalist .

August Bösch (1857–1911) sculptor, medalist
August Boesch

Life

The ninth of ten children of a farmer from Ebnat in Toggenburg fell ill with scarlet fever at the age of five , which resulted in severe hearing loss . For this reason, Bösch attended the St. Gallen institution for the deaf and dumb for two years as an eight-year-old , after which he followed normal lessons with the help of lip reading . At the age of 10 he became completely deaf . From 1873 to 1875 he did an apprenticeship as a stone cutter in Riesbach , at the same time he attended classes in drawing and modeling at the canton school and at the Polytechnic in Zurich . Until 1879 he studied in Munich at the Royal School of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts .

From 1879 to 1884 Bösch lived in Paris , where he worked in various studios and graduated from the École des arts décoratifs in the evenings . He then worked as a sculptor in Zurich for over ten years; during this time he traveled several times to England and Italy . Valentin Walter Mettler did an apprenticeship at Bösch for two years. From 1895 to 1899 he created his most important work, the Broderbrunnen in St. Gallen, in which he combined elements of neo-baroque and art nouveau . On July 3, 1898, the patriot monument he created was inaugurated in Stäfa . He then returned to Zurich and took over Arnold Böcklin's studio . Bösch mainly created architectural sculptures , for example in 1904 on the Kreuzkirche in Zurich-Hottingen or in the Federal Palace in Bern . From 1901 he often stayed in Rome , where he was inspired by ancient works of art.

literature

  • Daniel Studer, the sculptor August Bösch: a German-Roman artist from Toggenburg. St. Gallen: Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen 2004
  • Heinrich Moser: August Boesch. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 16, 1912, pp. 62–65.

Web links

Commons : August Bösch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Naef: From farmer's boy to great artist: August Bösch . In: Appenzell calendar . tape 261 , 1982, doi : 10.5169 / seals-376458 .
  2. ↑ Marcel Müller: Sprachheilschule and State Archives secure history for all the senses . Ed .: Sonos - Swiss Association of the Hearing Impaired. 2012 ( sprachheilschule.ch ).
  3. ^ 1877, register book, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  4. ↑ History of the origins of the Broderbrunnen
  5. ↑ Patriot Monument in Stäfa
  6. ↑ 1904 Reliefs for the Kreuzkirche, pp. 56-57

  • Broderbrunnen in St. Gallen, August Bösch 1896–1899

  • Building sculpture on House Oceanic in St. Gallen, August Bösch 1905

  • Zurich 1907, rifle medal for the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival , front side, with the heads of Helvetia and the city goddess of Zurich with a wall crown . Medalist August Bösch.

  • Back of the rifle medal for the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival 1907 in Zurich. Medalist August Bösch.

  • Chain sprinkler , Stäfa ZH, August Bösch 1898

  • Girl with a fish mask , Zurich-Hottingen, August Bösch 1910

personal data
SURNAME Bösch, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebnat
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1911
Place of death Zurich