Marcel Ebnöther

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Marcel Ebnöther (born January 18, 1920 in Moosleerau ; † February 2008 ) was a Swiss industrialist and art collector .

Life

Marcel Ebnöther attended schools in Sempach , Ettiswil and Altdorf and took the high school diploma in the fall of 1940 in the upper real estate department of the Aargau Cantonal School . He studied natural sciences at the ETH Zurich , graduated in 1944 and received his doctorate in 1947.

Ebnöther founded the adhesives company Ebnöther AG in Olten in 1947 . In 1956 he moved the company headquarters to Sempach Station .

Ebnöther Collection: Heads from Teotihuacan

Ebnöther traveled a lot for work, especially to Latin America . The income from his flourishing company enabled him to develop a passion as a collector of art from ancient high cultures. In doing so, he has gathered around 7,000 archaeological finds from Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America. Ebnöther was interested in comparing the early cultures. Outstanding in his collection are objects from the Urartu culture as well as gold objects from the formative period from Peru , which the archaeologist Walter Alva described as the largest and most important group of such finds outside America. Ebnöther kept archaeological diaries in which he recorded his travels in detail.

In 1990 Ebnöther donated his private collection to the city of Schaffhausen . It forms an essential part of the All Saints' Day Museum .

Fonts

  • with Elisabeth Ebnöther (Ed.): From the Dead Sea to the Still Ocean. Old and New World, a comparison. Ebnöther Collection, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen . Hatje, Stuttgart 1999.
  • with Elisabeth Ebnöther: work, fight and play. A triad of human life depicted using pre-Columbian figures. Basel 1982.
  • People and workplaces: Dedicated to employees on the occasion of the company's 25th anniversary. Sempach 1972.
  • About active zinc oxide . Dissertation. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 1947. ( Online )
  • Attempts to manufacture fixed conductors with high conductivity . Thesis. ETH Zurich, 1944.

Web links

Commons : Marcel Ebnöther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Ebnöther Collection  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae in the dissertation, p. 47.
  2. ↑ Archaeological Collection Ebnöther , at Museum zu Allerheiligen.
  3. ↑ Ursula Kampmann : The Ebnöther Collection in Schaffhausen , in Coins Week , October 3, 2013.
  4. ^ Ebnöther Collection , directory in the Schaffhausen City Archives
  5. ↑ Archaeological Collection Ebnöther , at Museum zu Allerheiligen
personal data
SURNAME Ebnöther, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss industrialist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Moosleerau
DATE OF DEATH February 2008