Christian Conradin

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Christian Conradin, portrait by Camille Bloch 1907

Christian Friedrich Conradin (born November 7, 1875 in Chur ; † May 3, 1917 in Zurich ) was a Swiss landscape painter and lithographer . In addition, he was actively involved in Swiss homeland security .

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Christian Conradin was born in Chur, but also had citizenship in Valchava . After leaving school, he studied at the applied arts school in Zurich and completed his internship in neighboring Rüschlikon with the painter and graphic artist Hermann Gattiker (1865–1950). For further training, Conradin went to the Royal Art School in Stuttgart and then to the Académie Julian in Paris. After returning to Switzerland, he lived in Pura in Ticino .

Conradin preferred to paint landscapes and architecture from Graubünden and the Engadin , some of which he showed at the art exhibitions of the “Association of Fine Artists Munich eV”. The landscape painting “Tuscan Spring Evening” presented at the spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in 1905 received particularly good reviews. In addition to movable paintings, decorative murals were also created, such as in the chapel of the Daleu cemetery in Chur, where Conradin in 1908 painted the vault with the four evangelist symbols at the center . In Chur, he also created the frieze in the meeting room of the administration building of the Rhaetian Railway and the mural in the counter hall of the Graubündner Kantonalbank , with depictions from the economy. Conradin designed a historical picture reminiscent of the Prättigau's struggles for freedom and religious belief in 1622 in the style of Ferdinand Hodler and thus adorned the back wall of the “Aquasana Monument” in Saas in Prättigau .

In addition to his artistic activity, he was involved in the Swiss Heimatschutz (SHS) and founded the "Bündner Heimatschutz" section in the canton of Graubünden in 1905, as it was a deeply felt need [...] that works of technology and architecture should tactfully and according to artistic laws designed and adapted to the landscape. In this context he worked closely with architects. In addition, he campaigned for a better quality of Swiss souvenirs. Conradin was later appointed to the board of directors, of which he was a member until his death.

At the 3rd national exhibition in Bern in 1914, at which the Heimatschutz was also represented for the first time, Conradin took over the management of the "Dörfli-Bazaar" in the established Swiss village. There it should be demonstrated what is meant by high quality souvenirs. The range offered emerged from a competition, the decisive criteria of which were a relationship to the location, good material, good form and a down-to-earth attitude . After the exhibition, Conradin founded the “sales cooperative” of the Swiss Homeland Security in 1915, whose task it was to procure souvenirs of the quality shown. After the dissolution in 1929, the "Schweizerische Heimatwerk" took over this task in 1930.

Christian Conradin died in Zurich at the age of 41 of a heart attack and found his final resting place in the cemetery in his native Chur.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Christian Conradi, p. 79.
  2. ↑ Franziska Schürch: Landscape, Senn und Kuh. The discovery of Appenzell folk art. Waxmann / Swiss Society for Folklore (SGV), Münster / Basel 2008, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Conradin, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conradin, Christian Friedrich; Conradin, Ch.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1917
Place of death Zurich