Bruno Meier (artist)

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Bruno Meier (born March 24, 1905 in Zurich ; † June 10, 1967 there ) was a Swiss artist and painter .

Life

Meier worked as a painter in Switzerland. His works, which were created between 1940 and 1967, would move on the established, well-tried path between old realism and pre-cubism . In 1965 a comprehensive exhibition with 150 drawings and 85 paintings took place in the Helmhaus in Zurich .

Meier was married to the teacher Alice Meier. The CentrePasquArt Collection Foundation in Switzerland inherited from Alice Meier (1914–2009) not only the entire estate of her artist husband Bruno Meier, but also a sum of 850,000 francs .

Exhibitions

  • 1952: M. Hegetschweiler, Bruno Meier, Eugen Meister, Heinrich Müller, Walter Sutter, AH Sigg, Henry Wabel, Heini Waser, Alfred Meyer, Uli Schoop , Art Museum St. Gallen
  • 1965: Bruno Meier, painting drawings; Mariann Grunder, sculptures , Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Helmhaus Zurich (with catalog)
  • 2005: Bruno Meier - the artist and his model , CentrePasquArt in Biel
  • 2013: Bruno Meier. Still life , Kunstmuseum Olten (with catalog)

literature

  • Felix Andreas Baumann : The painter Bruno Meier . In: Werk / Oeuvre , Volume 54, Issues 7–12, p. 500, Bund Schweizer Architekten, Schweizerischer Werkbund, Schweizerischer Kunstverein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ You , Issue 17, Conzett & Huber, 1957, p. 78
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1967
Place of death Zurich