Karl Glatt

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Karl Glatt-Notz (1912–2003), painter, landscape painter, murals, co-founder of Keis 48, Basler Graumaler, Lucie Glatt (1910–1996) grave at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Karl Glatt (born August 1, 1912 in Magden ; † April 27, 2003 in Basel ) was a Swiss painter and draftsman . He also created glass pictures and mosaics .

Life

Karl Glatt was one of five children of the carpenter Gustav Glatt and Maria Gisin and grew up in Birsfelden . After a broken off apprenticeship as a graphic designer, he attended the Art Academy in Vienna from 1932 to 1934 and was a student of Karl Sterrer .

In 1937 he settled in Basel as an artist. He was a co-founder of " Kreis 48 ", which he left in 1952. He later joined the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects (GSMBA). From 1961 to 1964 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission . In 1991 he was honored with the art prize by the canton of Basel-Landschaft .

In his younger years he traveled to the south of France, Spain, Ibiza and the Canary Islands, where he painted landscape watercolors. In 1956 he bought a house in the Jura , the landscapes of which inspired his painting throughout his life.

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Wall painting (1962) by Karl Glatt (1912–2003). Location, Kirchmattschulhaus in Birsfelden, Switzerland
Wall painting (1962), Kirchmatt school building in Birsfelden
Reverie

Karl Glatt is known as a landscape painter of the Swiss Franconian Mountains in the Jura. His early painting is characterized by a lively, expressive style, later his painting style changed to more flat, more abstract forms. During the war years and until around 1950 he also used a gray-tone painting style, which is why he was counted among the "Basel gray painters" together with other artists from "Kreis 48".

Smoothly designed large-format murals in and on public buildings in the Basel region, e.g. B. 1967 the composition Odysseus stranded on the cliffs of the Phaiaken in the college building of the University of Basel . In the seventies he combined graphic text elements with figurative image motifs. A later series of lovers showed people in their relationship to one another, sometimes in intense colors and in circular motion. His late work includes compositions that he called "vegetative forms and colors". The starting point for these pictures was a wreath decorated with ribbon loops that he had received on the death of his wife. He developed these compositions into increasingly abstract configurations, sometimes reminiscent of graffiti .

literature

  • Monika Barino: Karl Glatt. In: poetry. Zeitschrift für Literatur, 3/1982, ISSN  0378-0643 , p. 12.
  • Invar Hollaus: Karl Glatt. In: Günter Meissner (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Vol. 41, KG Saur Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 2007, p. 58.
  • Andrea S. Végh: Karl Glatt - From the gray painter to the master of sparkling colors. In: M. Gass, M. Glatt and A. Jetzer (eds.): Die Basler Künstlergruppe Kreis 48. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2016. ISBN 978-3-85616-810-0 , pp. 62–75.

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personal data
SURNAME Glatt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Maids
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2003
Place of death Basel