Jacques Knecht

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Jacques Knecht (originally Jakob Knecht, born March 24, 1930 in Zofingen ; died July 29, 1988 there ) was a Swiss painter and draftsman . His place of origin was Zurich .

Life

Jakob Knecht was the older of two children from Anna and Jakob Knecht-Hürlimann. After attending the primary and district school in Zofingen, he first completed an apprenticeship as a painter and worked in his father's painting business. In 1948 he moved to Geneva . From 1950 he completed military training. In 1952 he traveled to the sculptor and draftsman Franz Pabst (1927–2000) in Paris. There he adopted the French version of his first name, under which he also published his works. A year later he moved to Sweden via Amsterdam , where he worked as a construction painter and met his future wife Karin Samuelsson, whom he married in 1956. In 1959 he moved back to Zofingen and took over his father's business. There was a daughter from the marriage who moved back to Sweden with her mother after the divorce in 1970.

In his artistic work, Knecht turned to drawing and painting as well as the techniques of lithography , woodcut and etching . In 1968 he first took part in the annual exhibition of Aargau artists and in 1969 was accepted into the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects (GSMBA) Aargau. From 1975 he lived with the artist Lisa Stauffer . A year before his death, he published his own texts and drawings in his book Behind the Wings Is Eternity . Jenny Knecht, his daughter from his marriage to Karin Knecht, takes care of his artistic legacy.

Exhibitions

  • 1970, January 17th to February 8th: Galerie zur alten Kanzlei, Zofingen
  • 1972, December 2nd to 24th: Galerie zur alten Kanzlei, Zofingen
  • 1977, March 12th to 27th: Jacques Knecht, Lisa Stauffer, Galerie im Trudelhaus, Baden AG
  • 1979, June 16 to July 1: Galerie zur alten Kanzlei, Zofingen
  • 1985, November 16 to December 22: Galerie Media, Zofingen
  • 1990, November 17th to December 9th: Altes Schützenhaus , Zofingen
  • 1995, January 28th to February 26th: when I linger, I don't search ; Gallery 6, Aarau
  • 1996, April 27 to May 19: Altes Schützenhaus, Zofingen;
  • 2005, December 5 to January 6, 2006: Galerie Goldenes Kalb, Aarau
  • 2010, August 19 to September 12: Yesterday, today, here and there ; Old rifle house, Zofingen

literature

  • Jacque Knecht: Behind the wings is eternity: texts and drawings. K-Verlag, Zofingen 1987.
  • Roman Kurzmeyer and Jenny Knecht: Jacques Knecht (1930–1988). With numerous partly colored reproductions of the artist's works and black and white illustrations in the text. (Exhibition catalog). Zofinger Tagblatt, Zofingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-9092-6202-1 .
  • Aargauer Almanach for 1975. Vol. 2, Aarau 1974, p. 534.
  • Felix Rüegg: The original forms take on human form. Zofinger Tagblatt , Zofingen 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ^ Corinne Remund: Mystery and Radiance. In: Zofinger Nachrichten of August 19, 2010, p. 24. (PDF file)
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servant, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zofingen
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1988
Place of death Zofingen