Ernst Ramseier

Ernst Ramseier (born July 24, 1936 in Langnau im Emmental ) is a Swiss graphic artist and painter .

Life

Ernst Ramseier, born in Langnau in 1936, has lived in Krattigen since 1956 . He developed his artistic work largely as a self-taught. In 1960 he was able to take part for the first time in the Christmas exhibition of the art collection of the city of Thun (today the Thun Art Museum ). In 1965 he received a painting scholarship from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation and in 1973 a scholarship from the Louise Aeschlimann Foundation for his woodcuts. Ernst Ramseier is a member of XYLON .

In 1977 the anthology Wis isch u wis albe isch gsi with Swiss dialect stories was published at the suggestion of the Bern writers' association . It is illustrated with 13 woodcuts by Ernst Ramseier. In 2017, the Kunstmuseum Thun presented the exhibition Telling Pictures : Several writers were each commissioned to write a story for a series of pictures of works from the art collection of their own choosing. For this purpose, some large-format woodcuts by Ernst Ramseier were selected and shown.

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Ernst Ramseier appeared as a draftsman, painter and graphic artist. He is one of the representatives of late Swiss Expressionism . On his woodcuts, for example, people can be found who are related to a landscape or a house. The faces are always distinctive and expressive. Sometimes the woodcuts just show seemingly succinct everyday objects such as ties on a coat hanger.

From 1968 Ernst Ramseier became known through numerous public and private commissions. Mosaics, glass and church windows, entrance and stairwell designs, plaza designs, room installations or reliefs are evidence of its versatility. Book illustrations are also part of his repertoire.

Works in public

• 1968, "Wall mosaic secondary school Aeschi near Spiez "
• 1970, "Wall mosaic old people's home in Frutigen "
• 1974, "Entrance design / painting of condominium houses at Kirchgasse 27 in Spiez "
• 1976, "Entrance design for the new regional hospital in Interlaken (competition)"
• 1984, “6 glass windows, outer rondelle, Christian cross with interchangeable symbols, new baptismal font prot. Church in Krattigen "
• 1985, "2 four-part glass windows, new building asylum Gottesgnad in Steffisburg "
• 1986, "Metal relief Coop Center in Spiez (competition)"
• 1987, "Unterdachmalerei Aegertenstrasse in Bern "
• 1987, "5 interchangeable rondelles Protestant church in Spiez "
• 1989, "Staircase design of the new district hospital in Frutigen "
• 1989–1990, "All glass windows in the new Catholic Church in Kleinandelfingen "
• 1990, “5 glass windows prot. Church in Mürren "
• 1990, "Design of the square of the Swiss Movement Insurance, General Directorate Bern Spiez branch (competition)"
• 1991, "Staircase design Schoren school building in Gwatt "
• 1993, "Entrance design Federal Office for Genius and Fortresses in Wimmis "
• 1993, "WC-shower room design and 1 glass window in private house"
• 1998, "1 glass window Hotel Sunnehüsi in Krattigen "
• 1999, "4 glass windows in the parish hall in Aeschi SO "
• 2002, "Design of a poster for the 2004 annual raffle of the United Methodist Church Switzerland / France (competition)"
• 2003, “Altarpiece in the new Catholic Church in Ngome, KwaZulu-Natal Province . Outpost of the Benedictine Abbey Inkamana of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien in Vryheid , South Africa . "

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1960 Christmas exhibition, art collection of the city of Thun (group exhibition, also in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1975)
• 1964 Galerie am Aarequai, Thun (solo exhibition, also 1971, 1974, 1978)
• 1973 Bern gallery in Kramgasse, Bern
• 1978 Manoir de Martigny, Peintres et sculpteurs de l'Oberland bernois, 1978 (group exhibition)
• 1993 Kunstmuseum Thun, solo exhibition with paintings, woodcuts and drawings
• 2001 Gallery Art + Vision, Bern (with Martin Thönen )
• 2017 Kunstmuseum Thun : "Telling Pictures", 2017, group exhibition with works from the collection

Web links

• Ramseier, Ernst. In: Sikart
• Ernst Ramseier near Xylon (with depiction of some woodcuts)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Exhibition catalogs of the Art Museum Thun
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Information from: http://www.xylon.ch/de/kuenstler/ramseier/ramseier.shtml
4. ↑ Hans-Rudolf Hubler (ed.): Wis isch u wis albe isch gsi, dialect stories , with 13 woodcuts by Ernst Ramseier. Zytglogge Bern, 1977, ISBN 3-7296-0067-2
5. ^ Exhibition directory of the gallery, accessed September 7, 2017 at: [1]