Hans Stocker (painter)

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Roman Catholic parish church St. Karl Luzern , stained glass window by Hans Stocker
Hans Stocker (1896–1983) painter, family grave at Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Hans Stocker (born February 28, 1896 in Basel , † January 14, 1983 ibid) was a Swiss painter and a pioneer of modern Swiss sacred glass painting . He was the older brother of the painter Ernst Stocker, who is known by his pseudonym Coghuf .

Life

Hans Stocker was born in Basel as the third of five children. In his hometown he attended schools, trained as an art fitter and took painting lessons from Albrecht Mayer at the trade school. From 1919 to 1921 he lived in Geneva , where he got to know the works of Ferdinand Hodler and Paul Cézanne and made friends with the painters Alexandre Blanchet and Hans Berger . After long periods of study in Italy and Tunisia , he settled in France ( Ile de France ), south of Paris , in 1925 , and started his family there. In 1940, when the war broke out, he definitely returned to Basel.

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Hans Stocker's extensive work includes a variety of techniques: oil painting , watercolors , drawings , mixed media, woodcut , lithography , collages , glass painting (lead & concrete glazing), wall painting ( fresco , lime casein), mosaic and Aubusson carpets.

His artistic breakthrough came when he and Otto Staiger won the Basel-Stadt art credit competition for the stained glass windows of the Antonius Church in Basel. Much of his work has been made possible through art credit competitions and commissions. Stocker co-founded the Rot-Blau II group and the Les Surindépendants salon in Paris.

With his talent for wall and glass painting, his Christian statement and vital creativity, Hans Stocker was a decisive innovator of church art in Switzerland (Antoniuskirche Basel 1926–1930 and more than 30 other churches in Switzerland and abroad) and a. he created the glass windows in the Catholic cathedral in Kyoto in the Diocese of Kyoto, designed by the Swiss architect Karl Freuler (1912-2000)

In his panel paintings, people and landscapes can be found in recurring motifs such as mother and child, the family community indoors and outdoors, water and forest pictures, sea and river landscapes. Numerous oil paintings and watercolors can be found in schools, homes, museums and other public buildings. As the successor to Ernst Morgenthaler , Hans Socker was President of the Federal Art Commission from 1954 to 1960 .

Hans Stocker died on January 14, 1983 in Basel. His grave is in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel .

Works (selection)

  • 1930: One of the three glass windows, Bathing Boys, for the staircase of the Wettstein School in Basel; together with Otto Staiger and Max Sulzbachner .
  • 1932–1933: Mural bathing children , for the stairwell of the former stone school, can be seen today in the stairwell of the Kirschgarten grammar school .
  • 1943: 14 frescoes , Way of the Cross , Aesch Catholic Church
  • 1943–1945: Glass painting refugees and prisoners , Spiegelhof, Spiegelgasse 6, Basel. Together with Otto Abt, Charles Hindenlang, Jacques Düblin
  • 1946–1948 mural Joie de vivre , entrance hall of the women's hospital, Basel
  • 1953: Stained glass for the Mother of God Church and its baptistery, Solothurn
  • Hans Stocker (1896–1983) painter.  Grave cross, Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
    Grave cross by Hans Stocker, Wolfgottesacker cemetery
    1954: Painting for the partition walls of the Wasgenring school building, Basel; together with Otto Abt , Theo Eble , Charles Hindenlang , Max Kämpf , Walter Schüpfer . The badly damaged pictures were replaced by mosaics in 1980/1981.
  • 1959–1961: Glas painting Lebenslinien , Holbeinschule, Basel
  • 1966–1967: Six glass paintings in the chapel of the Felix Platter Hospital Basel

literature

  • Emil Szittya : New Trends in Swiss Painting. With illustrations by Camenisch , Coghuf, Hindenlang , Staiger , Stocker, Sulzbachner . Paris 1929.
  • Coghuf, memorial exhibition. Hans Stocker, anniversary exhibition. Texts: Maria Netter, Max Robert, Peter Friedli. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 1976.
  • Agathe Straumann, Basel-Stadt Education Department. Hans Stocker In: Art for Basel: 75 years of art credit Basel-Stadt. Art in public space. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 1974, ISBN 3-7965-0968-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Stocker (painter)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Hess, Architecture and Art: Hans Stocker and Otto Staiger, Antoniuskirche in Basel. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Architecture and Art: Stained Glass for the Catholic Cathedral in Kyōto. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  3. State Archives Lucerne: Catholic Cathedral in Kyōto. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  4. 1948, mural Joie de vivre in the women's hospital in Basel
  5. 1953, Mother of God Church in Solothurn
  6. Baptistery