Charlotte Germann-Jahn

Memorial to Henry Dunant , Heiden 1963

Charlotte Germann-Jahn (born February 17, 1921 in Zofingen ; died November 8, 1988 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor .

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Charlotte Jahn was taught by Carl Fischer , a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, while she was still in middle school . There she took up studies in 1940, which she completed until 1942 with Walter Roshardt , Ernst and Max Gubler and Ernst Georg Rüegg - in between, she was at the Geneva École des Beaux-Arts in 1941 , where she attended courses with Alexandre Blanchet .

In 1943 she set up her studio in Schwamendingen , but worked with other sculptors, including Karl Geiser , whose treatment of the relationship between volume and surface influenced her work. Charlotte Germann-Jahn, who continued to sign under Jahn even after marrying the architect Peter Germann in 1946, won the 1952 competition for the statue of a sower for the agricultural school Strickhof in the Zurich Oberland. Her Henry Dunant monument in front of the Henry Dunant Museum Heiden from 1963 attracted special international attention .

While Germann-Jahn dealt primarily with the human figure in her early work, her preoccupation with the subject of wells and water in general led her increasingly to abstraction from the mid-1960s . From this time onwards, multi-part works were also created, including those made of fiberglass concrete , which relate to one another and to the landscape.

She found her final resting place in the Zurich cemetery in Nordheim .

List of works (selection)

• The Sower , Strickhof, Eschikon, 1952
• Henry Dunant Memorial , Heiden 1963
• Spa fountain , Bad Zurzach, 1968,
• Brunnen , St. Peterhofstatt, Zurich, 1974
• Stations , Witikon Cemetery , Zurich, 1978–1981
• Windohren , Taubstummenheim Turbenthal, 1977

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Germann-Jahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Irene Müller: Germann-Jahn, Charlotte. In: Sikart