Godi Hirschi

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Godi Hirschi (born May 7, 1932 in Inwil ; † May 26, 2017 in Root LU ; resident in Schangnau ) was a Swiss painter , graphic artist and teacher from the canton of Lucerne .

Life

Godi Hirschi was the son of Gottlieb Hirschi and Marie-Louise Sigrist-Hirschi. From 1945 to 1952 he attended high school in Immensee, which was followed from 1952 to 1957 by studying philosophy and theology at the Schöneck missionary seminar near Emmetten . After training at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts in 1957/1958 , he attended academies in Paris in 1958/1959 and in Rome in 1960. From 1961 he was a teacher at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts for 35 years.

While from 1956 to 1965 Sr. M. Paula Galliker from the parament workshop of the Fahr Monastery further developed the workshop and established the actual "driver style", in 1960 the collaboration with Godi Hirschi brought new impulses that led to generous geometric shapes. A green robe in silk, the first work of this new development, is in the Einsiedeln monastery.

In addition to his teaching activities, Hirschi devoted himself to painting and free artistic work. Above all, he often worked with architects and sculptors such as Kurt Sigrist in the design of sacred spaces. His painting and graphics were initially hinted at as symbols and later turned into restrained fields of color. The color elements and surfaces that extend over entire wall surfaces offer the viewer meditative moods without any direct reference to a specific topic.

In the church of Moosach , a high, rotating triangular object was set up in the choir behind the altar, which, with its surfaces in almost liturgical colors, shows golden yellow, blue violet and linden green according to the church year . A similar object is located in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Lenzburg . Two three-sided elements are covered with strips of fabric in the colors red-violet, yellow and green and can also be rotated as required.

Stained glass windows such as those in Danis-Tavanasa were also created for the overall concept work . Later works were created with the help of his son Lukas, who is also an artist. After a long illness, Godi Hirschi died at the age of 85.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Works

Art in a sacred environment

  • 1988–1989: Ilanz , district hospital, chapel and laying out rooms
  • 1988–1991: Köniz , St. Josef Catholic Church Center
  • 1991: Entlebuch , Chapel of the Bodenmatt Age Center
  • 1994: Kriens , Catholic Church, weekday chapel
  • 1991: Lenzburg, Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche
  • 1994–1995: Alpnach-Dorf , parish center
  • 1994–1995: Widen, Burkertsmatt Retirement Center, ecumenical prayer room
  • 1996: Danis-Tavanasa, Catholic Church
  • 1996: Fislisbach, reformed church , interior design
  • Rapperswil, Reformed Church
  • 1995–1999: Glarus, Reformed city church
  • 1999: Munich-Moosach, parish church St. Martin
  • 1995–2000: Wemding- Eichstätt, monastery, window
  • Meggen LU , Catholic Pius Church (panels, textile)

Profane works

literature

  • Godi Hirschi. Exhibition catalog. Lucerne Art Museum, Lucerne 1977.
  • Godi Hirschi. Exhibition catalog. Gallery in the Trudelhaus Baden; Galerie Agathe Nisple, St. Gallen 1992.
  • Godi Hirschi, Al Imfeld : Meditations for the exhibition in the Romero House Lucerne 1995. Martin Wallimann, Alpnach 1996, ISBN 3-95202719-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parament drafts on the Fahr Monastery website.
  2. ↑ Lucerne painter, graphic artist and teacher Godi Hirschi is dead. In: Luzerner Zeitung . June 1, 2017 (appreciation), accessed April 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Chapel of the Bodenmatt Retirement Center
  4. ^ Website of the parish Herz-Jesu Lenzburg
  5. ^ Website of the Danis-Tavasana Church
  6. ↑ Interior design
  7. ^ Art history of St. Martin Munich-Moosach
  8. ^ Website of the Carmelite Sisters in Wemding
personal data
SURNAME Hirschi, Godi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, graphic artist and teacher from the canton of Lucerne
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Inwil
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2017
Place of death Root LU