Hans Schweizer (artist, 1925)
Hans Schweizer (born March 8, 1925 in Michelstadt ; † August 27, 2005 in Monheim am Rhein ) was a German sculptor and painter .
Life
After attending a technical college for ivory carving and the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, Schweizer studied from 1949 to 1952 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Josef (Sepp) Mages and at Cologne factory schools.
Following his studies, he received numerous prizes in competitions for art in architecture as well as commissioned work at Bonn Minster and Düsseldorf's Königsallee . A study trip took him to Morocco, Spain, France and Belgium in 1954. He made the altar cross and baptismal font for the Evangelical Peace Church in Monheim-Baumberg.
In the 1980s he became known to a larger public through an increase in public commissions and further exhibitions. In 1993 the gallery Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zurich showed paintings and sculptures, in 1995 pictures and gouaches. His “memorial against forgetting” is in Monheim am Rhein, the city in which he lived from 1954 until his death.
Hans Schweizer was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten and the Bergischer Künstlerbund .
style
At the beginning of his career, Schweizer devoted himself to the figure and nature. He processed the experiences of the war in oil paintings and ink drawings. In the 1950s he dealt with sculptures with a religious orientation and increasingly abstract forms of strong stylization.
Between 1960 and 1980 he created convex-concave relief images and sculptures of abstract eroticism. Strong alienation from nature and unreal colors characterize his watercolors during the Cold War. Only later did Schweizer paint more naturalistically again.
In the 1980s, Schweizer placed wood, plastic, bronze and glass at the center of his work. In the last years of his creative life he added steel works of art, with his works becoming increasingly abstract again.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Schweizer in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.hans-schweizer.com
- Hans Schweizer's 70th birthday on March 8, 1995. on the website www.monheim.de
- Obituary for Swiss, Hans. on the website www.monheim.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Monheim-Baumberg, Friedenskirche , in: Strasse der Moderne.
- ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 106
- ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 107
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swiss, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Michelstadt , Odenwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 2005 |
| Place of death | Monheim am Rhein |