Franz Fischer (sculptor, 1900)

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Franz Fischer (born November 28, 1900 in Prague , † January 23, 1980 in Zurich ) was a Swiss stone sculptor and bronze sculptor .

Life

"The Walker"
"Toro I" on the Zollikon shipping area , created in 1967/68

Franz Fischer was born in Prague to Swiss parents. In 1916/17 he attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts , then completed an apprenticeship as a stone carver with Luigi Vassalli (1867–1933) in Lugano .

1921-23 Fischer attended a master class at the Academy in Rome. 1926-28 three federal art scholarships enabled him to study longer at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. From 1931 Fischer lived with the painter and sculptor Cornelia Forster (1906–1990) in Sala-Capriasca . In 1936 he settled in Zurich- Oerlikon , where numerous free sculptures and works for art in buildings were created for the urban area of ​​Zurich.

One of the most important exhibitions at which Fischer exhibited after 1939 was the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1939, at which Fischer exhibited the 630 centimeter high plaster sculpture “Gäa”. In the same year he presented the larger-than-life bronze sculpture "Walker", which was awarded a gold medal at the world exhibition in New York and is now at the sports facility in Zurich Oerlikon. When the statue was first erected there in 1934 on behalf of the city, the naked figure sparked violent protests from the teachers of the neighboring school building. In 1948 he created a sculpture for the Swiss Federal College for Sport Magglingen .

After 1944 Fischer gave evening courses in life drawing at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. 1950–57 he took over the presidency of the exhibition commission of the Zürcher Kunsthaus . From 1953 to 1959 Fischer was a member of the Federal Art Commission.

Retrospectives took place in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 1966 and in the Helmhaus in Zurich in 1976 . In 1939 Fischer was awarded the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize .

Works

«Reclining» in Zurich's Enzenbühl cemetery

Fischer's better-known works include, in addition to “Gäa” and “Geher”, the bronze figure “Reclining” from 1934 in the Enzenbühl cemetery in Zurich, as well as the reliefs made of Solothurn limestone for the new building of the Swiss Bank Corporation on Paradeplatz , which were created in 1954–59. For the renovated Augustinian Church in Zurich , Fischer was responsible for the sculptural furnishings (1958–59).

In 1966, Fischer created the bronze portal to the conference hall for the World Health Organization in Geneva.

literature

  • Aroldo Gamper-Fischer: Franz Fischer 1900–1980. Draftsman and sculptor. Niggli, Sulgen 1992, ISBN 3-7212-0267-8 .
  • Eduard Plüss: Franz Fischer. Monograph. NZN Buchverlag, Zurich 1962.

Web links

Commons : Franz Fischer (Sculptor, 1900)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ticinarte ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 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. , accessed December 3, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ticinarte.ch
  2. Unterwegs in Oerlikon, Point 5 ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB), accessed on December 3, 2011.
  3. 1948, sculpture in Magglingen
  4. 1958/59, Augustinian Church, Zurich