Fritz Eduard Pauli

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Fritz Eduard Pauli (born May 7, 1891 in Bern , † September 3, 1968 in Cavigliano TI ) was a Swiss painter , etcher and illustrator .

Life

Fritz Pauli was born in Bern as the second son of bank clerk Ernst Friedrich Emanuel Pauli and Emilie Pauli-Bodmer. In 1906 he left high school and began an apprenticeship as a flat painter. In 1907 he attended evening courses in etching at the Bern School of Applied Arts. After his brief employment with the decorative painter Otto Haberer-Sinner, the first prints were made in his own studio in his parents' house.

Albert Welti acquired the Susann I sheet at the Kunstverein's Christmas exhibition in Bern in 1909 . The well-known artist offered Pauli to take him on as a student. At that time, numerous artists met in Welti's house in Melchenbühl near Bern. Ernst Kreidolf , who worked with Welti on the Landsgemeinde mural in the Council of States hall, Paul Klee , the composer Othmar Schoeck , the writer Hermann Hesse and the poet and art critic Joseph Viktor Widmann frequented this house. Through Welti's mediation, Pauli was accepted into Peter Halm's composition class at the Munich Art Academy . In between he graduated from the recruit school and returned to Munich in 1911. Also through Welti's mediation, Pauli portrayed the landowner Franz Rose and his nephew, the art historian Hans Rose, in Doehlau near Königsberg in 1912.

In 1913 Pauli began to work in his painting studio in Munich. In 1910 he received the first federal grant and an award from the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1922 Pauli married the textile draftsman Jenny Bruppacher, after whose death in 1937 she married Elsi Meyerhofer, a seamstress and gilder, in 1940.

Until he finally settled in Cavigliano in 1935, Pauli's life was shaped by many trips, at the same time he also had a studio in Zurich. In 1918 he stayed in Lötschental and from 1918 various times in Fex , where he created landscape watercolors. From 1921 to 1925 he spent the summer months on Lake Zug. In 1925 he met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos . In the same year he traveled to Tunisia . In 1926 he lived in Collioure in the south of France and from 1928 to 1932 in Paris. In 1931 he rented a farmhouse in Amden . In the same year he showed his paintings for the first time at the Glarner Kunstverein .

The two artists Johann Robert Schürch and Ignaz Epper and the writer Jakob Bührer belonged to the closer circle of friends . In 1951 he wrote about his friend that it was his "open commitment to people, their disposition, dependency and limitation" that particularly touched him about his art. The Zurich collector Kurt Sponagel also belonged to his close circle of friends . In the 1920s Pauli corresponded frequently with the Baden physician and art collector Walter Minnich , whose collection is in the Lucerne Art Museum . In the later years there was a close friendship with the painter, etcher and teacher Paul Freiburghaus . Freiburghaus published his graphic work after Pauli's death.

Even as a young artist, Pauli attracted attention with his graphic works. In 1914 the etching self-portrait at the XII. National art exhibition on recognition. His early etchings and woodcuts from the 1910s and 1920s are among the most important positions of expressionism in Switzerland. In 1926 August Klipstein published the first graphic catalog.

Appreciation

In his early years Fritz Pauli made a contribution to the art of the 20th century with his etchings and aquatint images. His painterly work was expressionist until the early 1930s and, shaped by the changing life situations and new acquaintances, changed into a realistic , representational style that was easier to understand. As with many Swiss painters of the post-war period, Pauli's works often also have socially critical content.

In 1935 Pauli designed a glass window for the Reformed Church of Oftringen , consecrated in 1934, and then six scenes from the Passion of Christ for the new chapel in the Zug Citizens' Hospital by 1938. From 1939 to 1945 he created the fresco cycle about Antonius the Hermit and a Christmas picture for the Antoniterkirche Bern , which was put back into liturgical use in 1938 .

For the Bern town hall , which was renovated from 1940 to 1942 , Pauli was commissioned to paint the reception hall. His designs from 1947 and the later modeled representations convinced the government council. In 1951 he was commissioned and immediately began with the first picture, Sleep . The other frescoes with the themes of love and life , work and the festival of life were then created by 1956 . The technique of painting in daily work on freshly applied lime plaster, which was already used in the Middle Ages, required his physical strength and working time for years and Pauli wrote in his diary: «After the two previous rows of frescoes in Zug and the Antonierkirche, work in the Bern town hall had him mentally & physically damaged early ›». A day of life , as the title of the picture portfolio is called, spreads out in front of the viewer, and it was with this fresco cycle that Fritz Pauli created his most important work.

His search for the “ultimate truth” is concentrated in his late work. In his adopted home in Ticino, where he spent the last years of his life, numerous graphic works were created from 1957 to 1961, such as Escaping Day , Angel of Dreams , Blind Wanderer and Loner . An obituary for Fritz Pauli appeared in the magazine Architektur und Kunst.

Works

In addition to the extensive graphic work, works in public space:

  • 1935: Stained glass window for the Oftringen church
  • 1938: Chapel in the Bürgerspital Zug, passion scenes
  • frescoes in the Antoniterkirche Bern during the war years
  • 1947–1956: Fresco cycle Bern Town Hall

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Hugo Marti: The hostel on the river. Annual edition of the Bernese Art Society for 1932, with illustrations by Fritz Pauli.
  • Jakob Bührer: Storm over Tbilisi. Novel. With illustrations by Fritz Pauli. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich / Vienna / Prague 1934.
  • Fritz Pauli, Walter Kern: “The Day of Life”: A cycle of frescoes in Bern's town hall. BW press, Winterthur 1958.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte, 1933: Why I live in Zurich. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Glarner Kunstverein online ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthausglarus.ch
  3. ^ The collector Walter Minich, Minich, Kunstmuseum Luzern
  4. ^ Freiburghaus, Paul: Fritz Pauli. Catalog of the graphic work., Galerie Kornfeld, Bern 1982
  5. ↑ Bruno Weber: Printmaking. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . «The artist graphics of the 20th century made use of old techniques, especially gravure printing, which they revived and experimentally expanded in a surprising way. Fritz Pauli was outstanding with his expressive etchings ».
  6. ^ Paul Schaffner, 1951: Fritz Paulis newer etching work. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Former Bürgerspital, was taken over by the Canton of Zug in 1981 and continued as the Cantonal Hospital Zug.
  8. ^ Ernst in der Mühl, 1946. Architecture and Art: Frescoes in the Antonier Chapel, Bern. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Ulrich Christoffel, 1957: Wall painting, Bern Town Hall. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ Carl Bieri: Frescoes in the reception hall of the town hall in Bern. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  11. ^ Architecture and Art: Obituary. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  12. ^ Fritz Pauli in the Antonierkirche Bern online
  13. ^ Fresco painting in the Antoniterkirche pp. 183–189
  14. ↑ Olten, exhibition 2008
personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Fritz Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pauli, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1968
Place of death Cavigliano