Emil Engeler
Emil Engeler (born August 2, 1910 in St. Gallen ; † December 3, 1993 there ; entitled to live in and thus a citizen of Guntershausen near Berg ) was a Swiss artist of Art brut . He gave himself the stage name Angelus .
life and work
Emil Engeler did an apprenticeship as a car and motorcycle mechanic. In the early 1930s he worked in a tractor factory in Wil SG , then in a printing machine factory in Gossau SG until he retired . In his younger years he was already copying landscapes and cityscapes together with his father-in-law - a flat painter . In the early 1970s he started his own artistic work. His drawings, which he signed with “Angelus”, deal with both political and visionary-political issues. A feature of his works is a largely symmetrical structure.
Engeler's works have been shown in various exhibitions, including monographic ones. The Cantonal Library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Trogen AR owns his photo estate and an extensive dossier about him. Thanks to the collection of Mina and Josef John acquired in 2014, “Angelus” is also represented in the museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen with a group of works.
Exhibitions
- 1988 Exhibition by the Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and art brut , government building, St. Gallen (group exhibition)
- 2001 Between heaven and today. Visions, dreams, fantasies, Kunsthaus Langenthal (group exhibition)
- 2015 The Mina and Josef John Collection, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)
literature
- Simone Schaufelberger-Breguet: Angelus - «The picture discusses with me». Exhibition catalog, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen: Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut, 1990. September 1 - 3 November 1990 / Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut, St. Gallen, St. Gallen: Museum im Lagerhaus / Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut, 1990.
Web links
- Biography and work pictures on the website of the museum in the warehouse
- Angelus. In: Sikart
- Broadcast on Swiss television about an exhibition in 1990
- The painter Angelus. Admonisher, visionary, rebel , lecture by Simone Schaufelberger on March 4, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engeler, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angelus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Art Brut artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1993 |
| Place of death | St. Gallen |