Leo Berger

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Leo Berger , also Léon Berger , (born March 13, 1885 in Solothurn ; † July 4, 1983 in Pieterlen ; resident in Münsingen and Solothurn) was a Swiss sculptor .

Life

Education and professional career

Leo Berger, who comes from Solothurn, completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason after completing his compulsory schooling . He then studied at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and the academies of Florence , Rome and Berlin . Leo Berger, who traveled to Berlin and Paris several times , moved into studios in Dresden and Solothurn between 1919 and 1927 , moving to Zurich in 1928 and to Montagnola in 1950 . He then worked in Massagno , most recently in Lostorf . Leo Berger died in the summer of 1983 at the old age of 98 in Pieterlen.

Act

The artistic work of Leo Berger, influenced by Auguste Rodin , includes sculptures , portraits , larger-than-life, often pathetic and allegorical figures and genre-like groups, statuettes in wood and terracotta , representative tombs, as well as monuments and fountains that he created as part of public commissions. Leo Berger initially worked mainly in stone, and since the 1930s mainly in bronze.

Works (selection)

  • The dying Europe
  • Young man drying himself off after bath
  • Child portrait
  • Bull tamer
  • Non omnis moriar
  • Pestalozzi bust, Hermesbühl school building
  • Fountain, school building Manegg; Escher-Wyss-Platz; Uetlibergstrasse
  • Mythenquai, Zurich-Wollishofen
  • Confederate, bronze with brown patina
  • Boy on turtle, bronze, fountain figure, 1923
  • Schläfli memorial, 1928, Solothurn
  • Girl with a cloth, bronze, fountain figure, 1933

literature

  • Jost Hochstrasser: Leo Berger, sculptor in Solothurn In: Switzerland, 1918, p. 93f.
  • Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : General Artist Lexicon, Volume 6, 5th unchanged edition, Literary Institution, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M., 1922, p. 21.
  • Obituary in the Solothurner newspaper on August 31, 1983
  • In memory of the sculptor Leo Berger. In: Fatherland. Regional edition Solothurn. 1983, No. 203, p. 13.
  • Verena Stadler-Labhart: Parnassus is not in the Swiss Alps: Aspects of Zurich University History: Articles from the "Zürcher Taschenbuch" 1939–1988, in: Schriften zur Zürcher Universitäts- und Schehrtengeschichte, 8., Rohr, Zurich, 1991, ISBN 3-8586-5207-5 , p. 94.
  • Stefan Blank, Markus Hochstrasser, Society for Swiss Art History: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Solothurn. Volume 2, City of Solothurn II, Profanbauten, in: Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, Vol. 113, Wiese, Basel, 2008, p. 524.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dying Europe
  2. ↑ Young man drying himself off after bathing
  3. ↑ Child portrait
  4. ↑ Bull Tamer
  5. ↑ Non omnis moriar
  6. ↑ Confederate


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personal data
SURNAME Berger, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1983
Place of death Pieterlen