Hans Kaspar Schwarz
Hans Kaspar Schwarz (born March 12, 1891 in Solothurn ; † April 6, 1966 in Muri AG ) was a Swiss painter , sculptor and author.
Life
Hans Kaspar Schwarz was born in Solothurn in 1891 as the third of four children. His father, Hermann Schwarz (1852–1903) ran a cotton weaving mill in Bellach with two brothers. After the early death of his father - Hans Kaspar was 12 years old - his mother Anna Maria Schwarz-Daubenmeier (1864–1945) moved with the children to St. Gallen, where the manually gifted Hans Kaspar attended the arts and crafts school from 1906 to 1909 (painting class Hugo Pfendsack) could visit. After dropping out of architecture studies at ETH Zurich, he worked briefly for a relative, the architect Albert Froelich (who built the Zurich crematorium), first in his office in Charlottenburg, Berlin, then in Zurich. In 1914, Hans Kaspar moved to the Technical University in Munich to continue his studies. The optional subjects - freehand and figure drawing - interested him mainly, so that in 1915/1916 he prepared for the entrance examination of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Moritz Heymann's well-known private painting school , where he accepted after passing the examination in the winter semester 1916/17 has been. His teacher was Angelo Jank (1868-1940). He did not last long at the academy either, and vacillated between practical work as an architect and art.
In Munich he met his first wife, the Polish art student Janina Godovska, and they had a son Hugo together. In 1920 the Schwarz family emigrated to Rome. While Janina was painting dishes in a ceramics factory, Hans Kaspar took courses in drawing and portraiture at the English Academy and in nude and lithography at the French Academy. From 1923 the Schwarz family took up residence in Ascona, where he built his own atelier on Via Collina around 1924.
In 1927 the young couple separated and Hans Kaspar Schwarz traveled to Berlin, Paris and Munich. In 1928 he met his second wife Christine Schwarz-Thiersch at a carnival festival , to which Christine's brother Heinz and Thomas Mann's children had invited. The first son Johannes was born in 1929 and David in 1921. From 1942 the family lived in a self-designed, “Goethean” studio house in Adliswil-Oberleimbach. At the beginning of the 1960s she was suffering from cancer. Hans Kaspar Schwarz underwent an operation and ultimately needed care, which made the move to the Künstlerhaus Boswil necessary. Regular spa and painting stays in Clavadel, Samedan, Goldiwil, Zeneggen and on the Lauchernalp in Lötschental bring a welcome change in everyday life.
He died on April 6, 1966 in Muri Hospital.
plant
Hans Kaspar Schwarz's work includes drawings , numerous portraits in oil or as plastic works in clay, flower pictures, nude compositions, extensive snow and mountain landscapes, large figure and group pictures, watercolors , drawings and lithographs .
For decades, Hans Kaspar Schwarz also dealt with literary and poetic work. In doing so, he followed his request that people should increasingly work for the common good. Hans Kaspar Schwarz self-published the book "From the meaning of life of the White Cross on the Red Ground".
literature
- Steffan Biffiger: Hans Kaspar Schwarz, 1891–1966; Christine Schwarz-Thiersch, 1908–1992: Two lives for art . Benteli, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7165-1526-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal description on TicinARTE
- ↑ Description of the book publisher ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Hans Kaspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Black, Hans Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1966 |
| Place of death | Muri AG |