Dürrenmatt attic
The Dürrenmatt attic is a mansard at Laubeggstrasse 49 in Bern ( Switzerland ), which the writer and painter Friedrich Dürrenmatt lived in from 1942 to 1946.
During this time Dürrenmatt was studying at the University of Bern , and the attic was left to him by his parents, who lived in the house below. He immediately began to decorate the attic with large wall paintings.
After the family moved to Basel , the pictures were whitewashed by the new tenant and were forgotten until they were rediscovered in the early 1990s, restored and made available to the public for the first time in 1994 at an exhibition on Dürrenmatt.
Today the attic belongs to a foundation and serves as accommodation for people who work for a limited time in Bern as exhibition organizers, researchers, guest lecturers in the art museum , in the history museum , in the Museum for Communication Bern , in the Swiss Literary Archive , for the art gallery or at the university .
literature
- Peter Edwin Erismann and Ulrich Weber (Red.): The attic. The murals from Bern's Laubeggstrasse (24 illustrations with texts by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and an essay by Ludmila Vachtova , edited by the Swiss Literary Archives), Zurich 1996, ISBN 325702052X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joachim Güntner: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's painted Bern attic. Grimaces from uncertain times. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 8, 2015, accessed on December 13, 2015 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '55.32 " N , 7 ° 27' 51.93" E ; CH1903: 601964 / 199735