Ludwig Stocker

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Evolution , Musee d'histoire naturelle Neuchâtel
Messenger from the east gable
Gallus and Otmar figures at the St. Gallen monastery

Ludwig Stocker (born August 1, 1932 in Herisau ) is a Swiss sculptor and painter.

life and work

Ludwig Stocker, sculpture, design, open space-1987, at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Open space sculpture in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Ludwig Stocker, sculpture, design, open space-1987, at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Sculpture, design, open space-1987, in the cemetery at Hörnli

Ludwig Stocker grew up in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . In the years 1949–1954 he completed his training as a sculptor with Wilhelm Meier and Josef Büsser in St. Gallen and continued his education at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome . In 1956 he married Annemarie Ledergerber, the marriage had four children. Ludwig Stocker has lived as a freelance artist in Basel since 1957 . At the beginning of his activity he also copied medieval sandstone figures for the cantonal monument preservation office in Basel . In the years 1972–1982, in addition to his freelance work, under Prof. Dr. Ernst Berger saw the Parthenon gable figures in the sculpture hall of the Antikenmuseum Basel on a scale of 1: 1. In this context, extensive studies on the theory of harmonic proportions were made . In 1961 he received a grant from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation . From 1972 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums followed.

Stocker's series of works contain sculptures, drawings, collages and paintings with references to cultural history and to various cultures, especially the early cultures of the Egyptians and Greeks . Initially, Stocker emphasized the stone figure. From the 1970s, however, he also used and combined other materials such as wood, clay, glass, bronze and styrofoam in his sculptural work , often with bold painting. In Stocker's creative field, the focus is on the human figure. Stocker often creates tall, slender figures with low volumes, plate-like, sometimes layered on top of each other. "Perhaps that is why Ludwig Stocker became and remained a sculptor because the elaboration of an idea in the plastic as actually spatial can lead to complex superimpositions." In parallel to the sculptural work, extensive drawings and pictures were created, often as series pictures, with quotations from art history. "Stocker illuminates individual moments from past cultural history, breaks them out of the prescribed context and transfers them into a new negotiation context in his own processing."

  • Königsweg , 1987

  • Drawing 1988

  • No mortal ever exposed my robe , 2002

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in museums and in public spaces (selection)

  • Kupferstichkabinett Kunstmuseum Basel
  • Collections of Art Credit Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft
  • Art Museum Thun
  • Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
  • Art Museum Olten
  • Antikenmuseum, Basel
  • "Open space", in the cemetery at Hörnli , Riehen, Basel-Stadt, 1987
  • Gallus and Otmar figure, St. Gallen Monastery , marble, basalt, 1992
  • Square design in front of the Mariastein Basilica , 1997
  • "Produced, found, recognized reality", University Psychiatric Clinics Basel , Basel, concrete, asphalt, stone, 1971
  • "Lagerststätte", sculpture in the Rhine, Basel, basalt, 80 cm (H) × 270 cm × 190 cm, 1992
  • "The centers of the world", inner courtyard Aeschenvorstadt Basel, marble, bronze, water, fire, height 15 meters, 1993
  • «Messiaserwartungen», Paradieskirche Binningen , acrylic, 6 × 6 meters, 1998/2000
  • “Meeting point on coordinate”, Post Teufen AR , marble, basalt, 160 cm (H) × 550 cm × 550 cm, 1981
  • «Evolution», Musee d'histoire naturelle Neuchâtel , marble, basalt, height: 11 meters, 1987
  • 8 sculptures in the choir, St. Johann Schaffhausen Church , Styrofoam cement, color, height: 126 cm, 1990 & 2014

Publications (selection)

  • Hans Ulrich Reck: Ludwig Stocker Work 1965–1986. Monograph. Basel 1986.
  • Jörg Huber: Ludwig Stocker. 19 Drawings from the Cycle "The School of Athens". Exhibition catalog The October Gallery, London 1990.
  • Kunstmuseum Thun (ed.): From going out during the day. Ludwig Stocker. Sculptures and drawings. Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Thun. Thun 1991.
  • Jörg Huber: Stocker Ludwig. In: Swiss Institute for Art Research (Ed.): Collection of the Gotthard Bank. Young Swiss Art 1960–1990. Swiss Institute for Art Research, catalogs of Swiss museums and collections 14. Zurich 1991.
  • Lukas Thommen: Ludwig Stocker's “Doryphoroi” (1987). Harmony of numbers and reflection on reality . In: Ernst Berger, Brigitte Müller-Huber, Lukas Thommen (eds.): The artist's design. Sculpture canon in ancient and modern times. Exhibition catalog Antikenmuseum Basel and Collection Ludwig. Basel 1992.
  • Emanuela Briaschi, Erica J. Suter-Pongratz (ed.): Space and time. Spazio e Tempo. The process of creating a sculpture by Ludwig Stocker. Basel 2000.
  • Dieter Koepplin: Texts from Ludwig Stocker's card box. Exhibition catalog Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker. Basel 2002.
  • Tomas Lochman (Ed.): Origin and Present. Ludwig Stocker in the Basel Sculpture Hall. Exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Skulpturhalle Basel. Basel 2009.
DVD

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Stocker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
* Website von Ludwig Stocker

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ulrich Reck: Ludwig Stocker. Work 1956–1986. Monograph. Basel 1986.
  2. ^ Jörg Huber: Ludwig Stocker. Exhibition catalog Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker. Basel 1989.
  3. ↑ Booklet ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 17, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bach-streaming.ch
personal data
SURNAME Stocker, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Herisau