Hugo Siegwart

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Peter Hugo Siegwart (born April 25, 1865 in Malters ; † July 10, 1938 in Lucerne ; mostly called Hugo Siegwart ) was a Swiss sculptor and medalist .

biography

Siegwart was the son of the glass blower and officer Josef Alois and Karolina, nee Lehmann. After attending the Lucerne School of Applied Arts , Siegwart completed an apprenticeship as a stone carver in Chur from 1884 , which he broke off a year later. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Max von Widnmann and in Paris at the Académie Julian with Henri Chapu . In 1887 he moved to the École des beaux-arts to Alexandre Falguière . Even in his seventies, Siegwart wanted to be seen as a pupil of Falguière. Siegwart took part in exhibitions at the Salon de Paris several times .

In the winter of 1890 he returned to Lucerne and worked on a competition design for the Tell monument .

Siegwart's Pestalozzi monument in Zurich

A year after completing his studies, he returned to Lucerne in 1892 and opened a sculpture studio. His first assignment was to make four figures for the “Four Seasons” building in Lucerne. In Lucerne he got to know and appreciate Robert Zünd . In 1893 he married Elisabetha Bernarda Felber from Lucerne.

In 1993 Siegwart exhibited his allegory design “Rhine and meadow with tributaries” for the monumental fountain in front of the Badischer Bahnhof at the cantonal trade fair in Lucerne . However, Carl Burckhardt won the competition for the fountain .

In 1896/97 he studied in Berlin and Brussels , where he was inspired by Constantin Meunier . Siegwart's activity extended to monumental sculptures, portrait busts, small sculptures and building reliefs, whereby he strived for the most accurate and realistic reproduction of nature. One of his best-known works is the monument created in 1898 in honor of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi on the Pestalozzi grounds in Zurich .

In 1900 Siegwart designed a group of gables for the Lucerne train station and in 1902 he contributed two statues for the domed hall of the Federal Palace in Bern , which represent Arnold Winkelried and Niklaus von Flüe . In the same year he created the monument in Bauen for Alberich Zwyssig . In 1904 Siegwart u. a. the two sculptures, Diana and Night , which were acquired by the Swiss Confederation.

The Schwinger statue, which Siegwart won the small gold medal at the ninth international art exhibition in Munich in 1905 and was placed in the Inselipark in Lucerne, was criticized by Siegwart from the church as the nakedness of the figures was morally intolerable. The resulting controversy led to further commissioned work, for example in 1906 a monument in honor of Albrecht von Haller in front of the University of Bern, which was inaugurated on October 16, 1908.

In 1911 Siegwart created the Tell Fountain in Lucerne and in 1913 a stone pusher figure in St. Moritz .

From 1903 to 1917 Siegwart lived in Munich , where he was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative. Siegwart created a bust for the Munich-based artist Martha Cunz .

His last major work was the horse group in front of the Kunsthaus Luzern in 1934, but there were differences of opinion with the client Armin Meili , which is why he did not sign the work. He found his final resting place in the Friedental cemetery .

Fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Siegwart, 1885, entry in the register book
  2. ↑ 1993 competition design, Rhine and meadow with tributaries
  3. ↑ 1898 Siegwart at work for the Pestalozzi monument
  4. ^ The Pestalozzi monument in Zurich
  5. ↑ 1900 Gibel group for the Lucerne train station
  6. ^ Sculpture, Niklaus von der Flüe
  7. ↑ plaster model, Diana
  8. ^ Sculpture, Diana
  9. ↑ 1905 Schwinger statue
  10. ^ The Schwinger sculpture group
  11. ↑ Enwurf for the Schwinger-sculptural group
  12. ↑ 1908, memorial for Albrecht von Haller
  13. ↑ Bust, Martha Cunz

Web links

Commons : Hugo Siegwart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Siegwart, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegwart, Karl Peter Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Malters
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1938
Place of death Lucerne