Hermann Gattiker (painter)

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Hermann Gattiker (born March 12, 1865 in Wollishofen (now Zurich ), † August 23, 1950 in Rüschlikon ) was a Swiss painter , etcher , engraver and draftsman .

biography

Hermann Gattiker, the son of a gardener, grew up in a confined space . From 1880 to 1883 he attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts , after which he worked in Jacques Matthias Schenker's studio in Lucerne . From 1884 to 1895 he lived in Dresden , where he devoted himself to landscape painting. There he worked from 1886 to 1892 as a drawing teacher for Prince Johann Georg von Sachsen . In the spring of 1895 he moved to Karlsruhe to become a master student of the landscape painter Gustav Schönleber . Influenced by the lessons with Wilhelm Krauskopf , he gradually turned to etching and engraving.

In 1899 Gattiker settled in Rüschlikon . There he founded an artists' colony , which included Hans Sturzenegger , Hans Brühlmann and Gustav Gamper , among others . Until 1902 he taught landscape drawing at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, and from 1900 to 1910 also at the private Stadler School. In 1902/1903 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission , and from 1899 to 1909 of the collections commission of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft . After he resigned from all offices in 1910, he lived in seclusion in Rüschlikon and turned back to landscape painting. From 1912 he went on study trips to Italy and Provence . In the 1930s he met Gottlieb Duttweiler , who commissioned him with the landscaping of his property (opened to the public as Park im Grüene in 1946 ).

Gattiker's landscapes were based on precise studies of nature, although his earliest works, which show expansive depictions of hills and heaths, were heavily influenced by works by Adolf Stäbli and Hans Thoma . He made etchings of selected works by Stäbli. Inspired by Arnold Böcklin, he etched romanticizing mood landscapes around 1900. The small-format paintings created after 1910 also referred to Böcklin and Stäbli, they mainly show landscapes in the canton of Ticino and northern Italy . In the 1920s, depictions of the Swiss Alps were added, and in the 1930s, depictions of southern French landscapes. Since Gattiker was skeptical of expressive and form-dissolving tendencies, he was already considered out of fashion during his lifetime.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Gattiker at the Stalder Art School


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personal data
SURNAME Gattiker, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollishofen
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1950
Place of death Rüschlikon