Hans Aeschbacher

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Hans Aeschbacher (born January 18, 1906 in Zurich ; † January 27, 1980 in Uster ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor .

Life

Bull (1947) in Biel / Bienne

Hans Aeschbacher was born in Zurich in 1906. He trained as a printer before starting to paint as an autodidact . The subjects of his paintings were landscape and portraiture until the 1930s . He was married to Hanny Fries for a short time .

From 1936 onwards, Aeschbacher devoted himself increasingly to sculpture. His first sculptures are still figurative and mostly made of terracotta and plaster . Aeschbacher's first stone sculpture was created in 1938. After 1945 his sculpture became abstract , his sculptures were now made of stone or metal. In the 1950s, his sculptures became more monumental. In 1953, with his first lava sculpture, a new creative phase came in Hans Aeschbacher's artistic work.

Aeschbacher had a few solo exhibitions in the 1950s. In 1958 and 1964 his works were shown at the Venice Biennale . In 1959 Aeschbacher participated in documenta II and in 1964 in documenta III in Kassel . In 1947 he was awarded the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize . Hans Aeschbacher worked as an artist until shortly before his death. He died in January 1980 in Russikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich . In 1989 the Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art gallery in Zurich showed sculptures.

Silvio Mattioli was a master student of Aeschbacher.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Aeschbacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova . Roswitha Haftmann . P. 104
personal data
SURNAME Aeschbacher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1980
Place of death Russikon