Swiss Mountain Painters Guild

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The Swiss Mountain Painters ' Guild (GSBM) is a Swiss artists' association that deals with the subject of mountains . The members are accepted by a jury.

Objectives and activity

The artist community wants to make a contribution to Swiss culture. It actively promotes its members, organizes exhibitions or art events and conducts painting courses. One focus is on cooperation with Swiss institutions such as museums, foundations and sponsorships. Catalogs or books are published for the annual exhibitions.

The office is located in Grindelwald and members from all over Switzerland are represented. Members are accepted by a jury based on certain criteria. The painters' works are presented to the general public in national exhibitions. These exhibitions take place in selected locations throughout Switzerland.

history

The architect Gustav Ritschard and the two painters Walter Poffet and Peter Stähli are considered the initiators or founders of the GSBM. The aim was to organize art exhibitions on the subject of mountains and to invite painters. Tourism and culture in Grindelwald should also be promoted. The book Faszination Bergmalerei with Rolf Schürch, René Plumettaz and Gustav Ritschard as authors served to arouse interest in painting and, above all, in painting courses. The first painting courses were held in 1986 in the Hotel Residence under the direction of Gustav Ritschard and the painter Albert Häsler. Rosa Krebs Thulin, the then president of the GSMBA , Section Bern (today Visarte ), also joined the guild when it was founded. On July 22, 1988, the founding meeting with 40 members took place in the Hotel Sunstar in Grindelwald.

Immediately after it was founded, the GSBM was able to attract additional artists who also appeared internationally, with Franz Bucher and Hansueli Urwyler joining them in 1990 . Well-known Swiss wood cutters like Martin Thönen were also included. The first nationally recognized exhibition took place in 1995 in the Alpine Museum in Bern. Further annual exhibitions followed in Switzerland. The 2012 exhibition in the Ziegelhütte art gallery in Appenzell had the focus on “Alpstein”. It took place in collaboration with the Liner Appenzell Foundation. The 2015 “Mountain Water” exhibition at Bromer Kunst in Roggwil BE was carried out in collaboration with the Swiss Sponsorship for Mountain Communities and its former President, Federal Councilor Hans-Rudolf Merz . In the foreword of the exhibition catalog, Merz wrote: They (the artists) deliver the myth, majesty and idyll of the mountain world to the lounges and museums of the entire population of our country and they make the mountain world vividly visible there.

When it was founded, the GSBM, with only a few members, was mainly oriented towards representational painting and graphic technology. Numerous well-known artists joined the group, some are members of the Swiss professional association Visarte or cantonal art associations. Many are listed in the SIKART lexicon on art in Switzerland . Several members of the GSBM are also members of the XYLON group , the international association of wood cutters. Today the GSBM represents the entire spectrum of visual art, from figurative to abstract painting.

In 2017, the bilingual illustrated book Gilde Schweizer Bergmaler, Faszination Berg - la fascination de la montagne was published for the exhibition at the KSU in Unterseen . In addition to the representative works of the members, there is an introduction to their intentions in the book: For many, the mountain has something mystical or spiritual (...) Painting is an inner seeing, it is the idea of ​​a picture that is then processed the color finds its external expression. (Quote from Madlen Fähndrich Campiche and Thomas Seilnacht)

National exhibitions of the GSBM (selection)

  • 2019: Schlösschen Vorderbleichenberg, Biberist
  • 2018: Kornschütte , Lucerne
  • 2017: Gallery Art Collection, Unterseen
  • 2015: Bromer Kunst , Roggwil
  • 2013: Grindelwald Congress Hall
  • 2012: Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte , Appenzell
  • 2008: Landscape Museum, Saanen
  • 2007: Alpine Museum, Zermatt
  • 2005: Museumbickel, Walenstadt
  • 2002: Gallery Art Collection, Unterseen
  • 2001: Schwägalp and on the Säntis
  • 1995: Swiss Alpine Museum , Bern

GSBM members in Sikart

Source: GSBM membership directory

literature

  • Madlen Fähndrich Campiche, Thomas Seilnacht: Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters, Fascination Mountain - La fascination de la montagne. GSBM, Grindelwald 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06126-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The mountain from an artist's perspective, in: Die Alpen, 8/2011 Journal of the Swiss Alpine Club .
  2. ↑ Rolf Schürch, René Plumettaz, Gustav Ritschard: Fascination Mountain painting. Schaer Verlag, Thun 1984, ISBN 978-3-907966-00-6 .
  3. ↑ Opening lecture by Madlen Fähndrich Campiche the exhibition in the Congress Hall in Grindelwald in 2013 for the 25th anniversary of the GSBM, according to a text of the founding members Pink Cancer Thulin, Walter and Peter Stähli Poffet.
  4. ↑ Information about the guild on the website, http://gsbm.ch/d/infos.html , accessed on September 23, 2016
  5. ^ Alpstein , exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte 2012.
  6. ↑ The mountain painters cheat. In: Bernese Oberland , March 23, 2012.
  7. ^ Bergwasser , exhibition catalog of the Bromer Art Collection 2015.
  8. ↑ Sybille Hunziker: The mountains presented 137 times in a completely different way, online edition BZ Berner Oberländer from August 14, 2017, available at: [1]
  9. ↑ Madlen Fähndrich Campiche, Chemsoc: Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters, fascination Mountain - La fascination de la montagne. GSBM, Grindelwald 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06126-2 .
  10. ↑ Invitation and poster for the 21st annual exhibition "Bergwelt 2017" of the GSBM, KSU Gallery Art Collection Unterseen (PDF) , accessed on December 24, 2018
  11. ↑ Sibylle Hunziker: The Mountains - 137 differently presented. In: Berner Zeitung, Berner Oberländer, August 14, 2017, accessed on December 24, 2018
  12. ↑ 125 different mountain peaks for the anniversary. In: Jungfrau-Zeitung , September 19, 2013
  13. ↑ Surprising angles. In: Basler Zeitung , April 14, 2012
  14. ↑ The members of the guild . GSBM. Retrieved April 24, 2019.