Franz Bächtiger

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Franz Bächtiger (born October 4, 1939 in Uznach ; † August 31, 1999 ) was a Swiss cultural historian and author .

Life

Bächtiger grew up in the city of St. Gallen in the Rotmonten district . He attended the canton school at Burggraben , at that time the only public high school in the canton of St. Gallen. He studied history and received his doctorate in Munich in 1969 with a thesis on the interpretation of fate in German Renaissance graphics . Bächtiger became a curator at the Historical Museum in Bern . In addition, from 1980 he held a teaching position at the University of Bern . In 1981 he became a private lecturer in cultural history with a special focus on iconography .

As early as 1981 Bächtiger conceived the exhibition Rudolf Minger and Robert Grimm. The Swiss way to the welfare state . In the following years he built up “the first collection on everyday culture of the 20th century in Switzerland”. This resulted in the highly regarded exhibition Change in Everyday Life in 1994 . Bächtiger also put together an extensive collection of political caricatures , which are now kept in his estate in the Bern Burger Library.

Publications

  • Swiss drawings in the 20th century. The Institute Publishing House, Zurich, 1971
  • with Hans Rutishauser: Dessins suisses du XXe siècle. Exposition itinérante 1971-1972. Munich, State Collection of Graphics. Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich, 1971
  • with François de Capitani: Reading, writing, arithmetic: the Bernese elementary school and its history. An exhibition in the Bernisches Historisches Museum to mark the 150th anniversary of the state seminar. Stämpfli, Bern, 1983
  • with Ulrich Imhof: Switzerland: illustrated history of the Confederation. Ed. Kurz, Küsnacht ZH, 1984
  • with Karl Zimmermann and Stefan Rebsamen: biographies, exhibition catalog. Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, 1995
  • with Hanns Peter Holl and J. Harald Wäber: - to scream into time -: Contributions to Jeremias Gotthelf / Albert Bitzius (1797-1854) . Citizens Library Bern, 1997
  • with Karl Zimmermann and Martin Illi: Between horror and joy: from the Ancien Régime to the federal state 1798-1848. A museum shows witnesses and remnants of this eventful time. Chronos Verlag, Zurich, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b estate of Franz Bächtiger in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
personal data
SURNAME Bächtiger, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cultural historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Uznach
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1999
Place of death Bern