Elsi Giauque

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Elsi Giauque-Kleinpeter (born November 15, 1900 in Wald , Canton Zurich ; † December 11, 1989 in Ligerz , resident in Prêles ) was a Swiss textile artist and teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts .

life and work

Elsi Giauque studied from 1918 to 1922 with Sophie Taeuber-Art and Otto Morach at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. Under the leadership of the school principal Alfred Altherr (1875–1945) she began to work in the progressive puppet theater. At school she also met her future husband Fernand Giauque.

From 1925 Elsi Giauque lived with her husband in Ligerz in the "Festi" house, which was furnished according to the Bauhaus principles. Friedrich Dürrenmatt also lived there from 1950 to 1952 .

Elsi Giauque took further lessons from her cousin, the weaver Heinrich Otto-Hürlimann (1900–1964). As a result, she created carpets, tapestries , blankets and fabrics, including the 1930 work “Homage to Paul Klee ”. Together with her husband, with whom she had a daughter, she took part in national exhibitions of the Werkbund and various artists' associations. From 1965 she was regularly represented at the international textile biennials in Lausanne . They also organized local sales exhibitions.

Elsi Giauque founded her own puppet theater in 1928 and directed it until 1943. In the same year the couple separated. She created three-dimensional works and thus turned the tapestry into a textile sculpture. In 1938, 1939 and 1940 she received the Federal Design Prize.

After Elsi Giauque gave up teaching for reasons of age, she was also able to develop artistically. In 1987 she received the Art Prize of the Canton of Zurich. Elsi Giauque worked with her former student of the weaver Käthi Wenger (1922–2017) until her death.

literature

  • Elsi Giauque: Educational study trips to Puglia. In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre: architecture et art , Vol. 48, 1961, pp. 103-105 ( digitized version ).
  • Erika Billeter : The textile class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre: architecture et art , Vol. 53, 1966, pp. 69–73 ( digitized version ).
  • Annemarie Monteil  : Elsi Giauque's thread and architecture. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen , Vol. 68, 1981, pp. 8-13 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Altherr (1875–1945), Let the Puppets Dance, Museum für Gestaltung
  2. ↑ Giauque, Fernand. In: Sikart
  3. ^ Annelise Zwez: Käthi Wenger (1922-2017). November 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Giauque, Elsi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giauque-Kleinpeter, Elsi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss textile artist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest , Canton of Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1989
Place of death Ligerz