Bruno Weber (artist, 1954)

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Bruno Weber at the work table in his studio in Vordemwald.

Bruno Weber (born June 2, 1954 in Vordemwald ) is a Swiss paper cutter, painter and art mediator.

biography

From 1977 to 1980 the trained real teacher attended the arts and crafts school in Zurich . In addition to his involvement in teacher training and in many creative projects, he worked successfully in the areas of painting and paper cutting until 2014. He offered workshops in China, among others, with guest appearances at the universities of Hangzhou and Beijing. In 2005 and 2016 the two books "Spiegelungen des Lebens" and "Suche nach dem Licht" were published.

Bruno Weber lives with his wife in Glashütten near Murgenthal , he has three grown daughters.

Design techniques

Bruno Weber cuts the mostly folded paper with a fine cutter. Swiss woodcuts by Félix Vallotton , Emil Zbinden or Heinz Keller influenced him more than traditional paper cuttings . He uses the term paper cut for his personal style. The painting has a strong regional reference to the landscapes around the Boowald near Vordemwald. As a trained didactic specialist for works and design, he also works three-dimensionally with many other materials. Bruno Weber is one of the most famous paper cutters in Switzerland.

  • Paper cuts: Black paper cut once with a knife and folded once. The result is an almost symmetrical filigree paper net that lies just below the glass in the frame.
  • Metal  cuts : A paper cut as a template is read in, enlarged, cut from a chrome steel plate with the help of laser technology, colored and mounted free-standing.
  • Painting: Landscape pictures in watercolor or acrylic technique that are painted and finished in the wild.
  • Cut watercolors: Spontaneous watercolors and careful paper cutting are combined into a colored three-dimensional paper surface.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1986 Hofgalerie Gartenlaube, Zofingen «Paper cuts, watercolors and acrylic paintings»
  • 1988 Kornhaus Bern, 2nd Bernese silhouette exhibition
  • 1990 Interlaken, 4th Bernese silhouette exhibition
  • 1991 Yamanota Oguni, Japan, Swiss paper cuttings in Japan
  • 1992 Winterthur, 3rd Swiss Paper Cutting Exhibition
  • 1993 Musée Gruérie, Bulle, 3rd Swiss silhouette exhibition
  • 1994 Beijing, China, Chinese-Swiss silhouette exhibition
  • 1995 Gallery Pitsch Geissbühler, Zofingen, "Paper cuts and landscape pictures"
  • 1996 Glashütten, Murgenthal, "Landscape Pictures of Murgenthal"
  • 1997 Stein AR, "Swiss silhouette"
  • 1998 Ballenberg Open Air Museum "From tree to tree of life"
  • 1999 Alpines Museum, Bern, 5th Bernese silhouette exhibition
  • 2001 Weaving and Local History Museum Ruedertal, "Paper cuts and watercolors"
  • 2002 Musée Gruérien, Bulle 5th Swiss silhouette exhibition
  • 2003 Vordemwald, «Objects and Pictures»
  • 2004 Burgdorf, 7th silhouette exhibition, Canton Bern
  • 2005 Interlaken, silhouette exhibition for the Unspunnen Festival
  • 2006 Hong Kong, Chinese-Swiss cultural exchange "Paper-cutting"
  • 2006/2007 Chateau de Prangins, 6th Swiss Paper Cutting Exhibition
  • 2008 Zug, cutting magic, paper cutting art from China and Europe
  • 2008 Sewanee, TN, USA, "Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep"
  • 2009 Zurich Museum Bellerive , 7th Swiss silhouette exhibition «Paper cuts - pure contour»
  • 2010 Tsinghua University Peking China / Hangzhou China Academy of Art, The Art of Paper-cutting: East meets West
  • 2011 Vordemwald, "Cutting China", paper cut exhibition
  • 2012 Schöftland Castle, «Paper cuts and wall objects» 
  • 2014, Kirie Art Museum in Minbu Japan, Swiss paper cutting exhibition
  • 2014/2015 National Museum in Schwyz, Prangins and Zurich, 8th Swiss silhouette exhibition
  • 2015, Deggendorf DE, International Paper Art Triennial, Paper Global III
  • 2016 Vordemwald, “40 years of paper cutting”, exhibition and book launch
  • 2017 Frankfurt am Main, “Picnic Time” an exhibition project

literature

  • Alfred Schneider: Reflections of Life - Bruno Weber - Paper cuts . Haupt Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-258-06801-1 .
  • Bruno Weber: Search for the light, selected paper cuts with possible interpretations . Self-published.
  • Felicitas Oehler: Cross-section, Swiss paper cuttings from five centuries . Haupt Verlag, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-258-07819-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Swiss paper cuts in China . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on September 27, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Nina Kobelt: Weber's interfaces . In: Berner Zeitung, Berner Zeitung . 2015, ISSN  1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed on September 27, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paper cutter, painter and art mediator
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vordemwald