Hermann Haller (sculptor)

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Haller's studio in Zurich

Hermann Haller (born December 24, 1880 in Bern , † November 23, 1950 in Zurich ) was a sculptor and is considered one of the founders of modern sculpture in Switzerland . Haller was more of a modeller than a sculptor

Life

As a 14-year-old high school student, Hermann Haller decided to become a painter at an exhibition in view of pictures by the painter Ferdinand Hodler . It was also Hodler who attested the 17-year-old Haller great talent. First he began studying architecture in Stuttgart . In 1901 he enrolled in the painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There he met a classmate from Bern, Paul Klee . He traveled with him from October 1901 to May 1902 through Italy.

From 1901 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . During this time his friendship with the painter Karl Hofer began . The Winterthur patron Theodor Reinhart made it possible for Haller, like Hofer, to spend a longer period in Rome at the Villa Strohl-Fern , where he turned to sculpture . In 1907 Hermann Haller became known through an acknowledgment in an art magazine. In January 1909 he married in Dusseldorf singer Gerda Agnes of Wätjen (1886-1965), daughter of the Governing Council of Hermann Nicolaus Wätjen (1851-1911) and maternal granddaughter of the painter Benjamin Vautier .

From 1909 until the outbreak of the First World War he lived with his family in Paris , where he came into contact with the circle of artists in the Café du Dôme through his brother-in-law, the painter Otto von Wätjen , and his later wife Marie Laurencin, and became friends with Ernesto de Fiori and Rudolf Levy . The Hallers spent the summer months in Wätjen's house by the sea in Cap Ferret , which is near Arcachon . In 1914 he went back to Switzerland and worked as a successful sculptor in Zurich. In 1917 he married the painter Felicitas Trillhaase (1894–1961), called "Chichio", daughter of the painter Adalbert Trillhaase . In Zurich, he made friends with Hermann Hubacher and later became his best man.

From 1919 he was in a new relationship with his student, the sculptor Hedwig Braus , whom he married in April 1945. Between 1921 and 1923, Braus and Haller went on various study trips together, the winter months in Berlin , first to the art dealer Paul Cassirer , then to Fritz Huf , in whose studio he worked, as well as to Paris and Italy. In the 1920s Haller was one of the best-known sculptors in the German-speaking area. In 1922 Haller created the bronze figure Young Man with a Blue Thrush for the Widmann Fountain on Hirschengraben in Bern . During this time in Zurich he became the most important figure sculptor in Switzerland. 1933 awarded him the University of Zurich the honorary doctorate . Together with Cuno Amiet , he represented Switzerland at the 1934 Venice Biennale . Haller was a full member of the German Association of Artists until it was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1936.

Haller's theme, the erotic tension between the sexes, runs through all his work, which is primarily (some life-size) female act and portrait - busts includes. His clay female figures radiate cheerfulness and warmth. His studio, which he designed and built in 1932, at Höschgasse 6 in Zurich, directly opposite the Center Le Corbusier, formerly the Heidi Weber Museum , is open to the public every summer and shows numerous original works by the artist. The wood atelier is one of the last witnesses to the Bauhaus architecture in wood in Europe. Haller received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1933 and the Zurich Art Prize in 1949. Haller and his friend Jakob Probst took part in the third international sculpture exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1949 .

Haller - whose nephew was the composer of the same name, by the way - stayed in Ascona again and again . At the abdication ceremony in Fraumünster held Ernst Morgenthaler the speech. Haller found his final resting place in the Hohe Promenade private cemetery .

Works

Haller's works can now be found in many domestic and foreign museums and locations such as the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Haller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Hermann Halle, 1901 in the register book. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Susanna Partsch: Paul Klee 1879–1940. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3-8228-0427-4 , p. 94.
  3. ^ Civil status of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf: The 12th (May 1886) Gerda Agnes, T. d. Government assessors Hermann Wätjen, Golsteinstr. , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt, No. 132, of May 18, 1886
  4. ↑ a b c Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 177 f .
  5. ↑ Short biography Hermann Haller: 1909-14 in winter in Paris, in summer in Cap Ferr (e) t near Arcachon. , at bildindex.de, accessed on May 4, 2016
  6. ^ Hermann Hubacher: Memory of Hermann Haller. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Building inventory of the city of Bern: Hirschengraben , accessed on September 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte, 1933: Why I live in Zurich. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Exhibition catalog 34th annual exhibition in Bonn: 1936 forbidden images. Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Berlin 1986, p. 98.
  10. ↑ Atelier on Höschgasse
  11. ^ Atelier Hermann Haller
  12. ^ Atelier Hermann Haller , at museen-zuerich.ch, accessed on April 23, 2016
  13. ↑ Rolf Wirz: Jakob Probst. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Hermann Haller ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ticinarte.ch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ticinarte.ch
  15. ^ Ernst Morgenthaler: November 27, 1950, funeral speech for Hermann Haller. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  16. ^ Zunft zum Kämbel: Wreath laying , accessed on March 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1950
Place of death Zurich