August Cueni

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Gravestone and memorial stone of August Cueni (1883–1966) art painter, wood and linoleum cutter, Schlossgasse in Zwingen
Gravestone and memorial stone in Zwingen Castle Park

August Cueni (born May 12, 1883 in Zwingen ; † October 25, 1966 there ; entitled to live in Dittingen , Basel-Land ) was a Swiss artist .

life and work

August Cueni was the eldest son of the small farmer August Cueni and Ottilia Anklin. After his schooling in compelling and running he visited in Basel the business school . In 1902 he worked briefly as an accountant in the Hotel Rigi-Kaltbad . From 1903 to 1905 he completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Basel and attended drawing courses with Fritz Schnider at the Basel School of Applied Arts .

After completing his apprenticeship as a painter, Cueni went to the roller coaster with August Wanner . Your first destination was St. Gallen . Later it went on to the Rhineland , Strasbourg , Heidelberg , Holland and Belgium . They hiked back to St. Gallen via Stuttgart and Ulm . In 1910 Cueni went to Munich with Albert Nyfeler . There he attended the arts and crafts school and became a student of Julius Diez . He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl , Adolf Hengeler and Ludwig Herterich until 1914 . During this time he made friends with Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini , Otto Plattner and Alexander Zschokke .

In 1914 Cueni returned to Zwingen. The nearby Birstal and Kaltbrunnental , the Lüssell , the Jura , the Lötschental and the Valais and Engadine Alps cast a spell over him. The impressionist nature and landscape painter Cueni was later also called the "Cézanne of the Laufental".

In 1915 he was able to show his works to a larger audience for the first time in the Kunsthalle Basel . In 1919 Cueni joined the Basel GSMBA and in 1920 began to work with his artistic themes with woodcuts and linocuts . In the same year he married the care assistant ( individual help ) Christine Dahmen from Germany. Exhibitions followed in Basel, Bern , Zurich , St. Gallen and Solothurn . His works include oil paintings , drawings, woodcuts and linocuts. His deep connection to nature was a source of inspiration and creative power throughout his life. In 1959, Cueni received honorary citizenship from Zwingen.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1915: First exhibition in the Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1921: Exhibition in Laufen
  • National art exhibitions: 1917, 1919, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1956
  • 1922: Delsberg , 1st exposure Jurasienne
  • 1945: GSMBA Basel, Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 2003: Memorial exhibition for August Cueni, Zwingen Castle
  • 2008: Memorial exhibition for August Cueni, Laufen

literature

  • Catalog. XVII. National art exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich, exhibition cat. Art house. Fretz, Zurich 1928.
  • Regular exhibition of the Swiss Art Association. Exhibition cat. Kunsthaus Zurich. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1932.
  • XIX. National art exhibition in the art museum in Bern May 17 to July 12, 1936, exhibition cat. Kunstmuseum Bern, 1936.
  • Gustave Amweg: Les Arts dans le Jura Bernois et à Bienne. Tome I. Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture, Gravure. Self-published, Porrentruy 1937.
  • Swiss Art Exhibition Basel 1956 . Baslerhalle of the Swiss sample fair. Foreword: Werner Bär. Basel 1956.
  • Helwin Cueni: The painter August Cueni. In: Jura leaves. Monthly for local history and folklore. 48, 1986, 10, pp. 141-15.
  • Helwin Cueni: My father August Cueni. In: Jura leaves. Monthly for local history and folklore. 55, 6, 1993, pp. 84-88.
  • Pierre Gürtler: For August Cueni's 110th birthday. In: Jura leaves. Monthly for local history and folklore. 55, 6, 1993, pp. 77-83.
  • Peter Suter: picture, pictures. Swiss painting in the Bank Sarasin Collection. With contributions from Birgit Kempker, Roman Kurzmeyer and Hans Ulrich Reck. Schwabe, Basel 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Cueni August, entry in the register book. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Oil paintings by August Cueni. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Drawings by August Cueni. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Wood and linoleum cuts by August Cueni. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Emil Kräuliger: 1921 review of the exhibition in running. (PDF) In: Volksfreund. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Chronicle 2003, Basel-Landschaft: 2003, memorial exhibition, Schloss Zwingen, Article 2. Accessed on June 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chronicle 2008, Basel-Landschaft: 2008, memorial exhibition in Laufen, Article 29. Accessed on June 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cueni, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH To force
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1966
Place of death To force