Eduard Gunzinger

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Eduard Gunzinger (born December 18, 1897 in Basel , † August 5, 1972 ibid) was a Swiss set designer , painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

life and work

Eduard Gunzinger completed a commercial apprenticeship at a bank. Deeply impressed by the drawings by Honoré Daumier , he decided on art and took painting lessons from Rudolf Löw in 1817 . He studied from 1921 to 1924 at the University of the Arts in Berlin and from 1924 to 1928 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts . His teachers were Hans Meid , Karl Hofer and César Klein .

Gunzinger then worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. Gunzinger made his first appearance as assistant set designer in 1936 with the production of the revue operetta Tanz ins Glück at the Zurich City Theater . Gunzinger later worked as a set designer at the Stadttheater Basel . There he created the sets for Grete im Glück , Orpheus and Eurydice , Bocaccio , Max and Moritz , The Bird Trader and The Italian Woman in Algiers . Gunzinger also created marionettes and various Waggis larvae for the Basel Carnival .

literature

  • Albert Baur: sets by Eduard Gunzinger. In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre: architecture et art , Vol. 27, 1940, pp. 291–296 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Gunzinger . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 339 .
  • Zita Caviezel-Rüegg: Eduard Gunzinger. In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz. Chronos Verlag Zurich 2005, Volume 1, pp. 772–773.
  • Eduard Gunzinger . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 65, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23032-5 , p. 14.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basel Masks. In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre: architecture et art , Vol. 25, 1938 pp. 70–72.
personal data
SURNAME Gunzinger, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss stage designer, painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1972
Place of death Basel