Marcel Perincioli

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Marcel Perincioli (born June 14, 1911 in Bern , † September 10, 2005 in Bern) was a Swiss sculptor .

Bronze reliefs by Perincioli on the bridge door of the Nydegg Church in Bern

Life

The son of the sculptor Etienne Perincioli, who immigrated from Piedmont , and Rosa Dietrich from Bern, trained as a sculptor with his father in Berlin and Paris in the 1930s . His teachers included the sculptors Charles Despiau , Wilhelm Otto , Walter Linck and the sculptor Germaine Richier . He was married to the artisan Hélène Perincioli geb. Jörns (1911-1996).

The young artist achieved a breakthrough with the execution of the portrait of Fritz de Quervain , director of Bern's Inselspital . For the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939 in Zurich , he created the figure Narcissus , which now stands in front of the Bern State Archives, and the relief Florian and his angel for the Bern fire station . This was followed by further orders for public buildings and churches, large figurative and later abstract compositions in stone, wood, bronze, aluminum and steel.

Fred Zaugg wrote in 2011: “Many meet his characters every day. [...] Marcel Perincioli's work is less in museums than outside in the city, in the agglomeration and far beyond that in our living spaces. "

Perincioli created for the Bernese Nydeggkirche two bronze doors, bells reliefs in Gümligen , pulpit, communion table and baptismal font of Chapelle Romande in Thun and the Stephanus Church in the mirror , bronze reliefs on the church Bern-Bethlehem , abstract sculpture in Kirchgemeindehaus Bolligen and angel figure for the Schosshaldenfriedhof than Part of the cemetery design: “The sheer size of the sculpture, but also the formal language and the expression leave no doubt: This is not a cute angel figure, but a powerful figure with a firm footing - connected to the earthly, but still sublime. The flowing lines - the merging of body and garment - take the angels' severity away and make them appear friendly. His arms are outstretched protectively and welcoming ... "

Fred Zaugg sees the bronze doors of the Nydegg Church as central to the work of the sculptor, who himself said about this work, “... it is one of his most important. Perhaps because here in the old sacred building he confronted and combined his unmistakable sculptural language with the old construction of the cassettes. In doing so, he drew an arc from the present to the Renaissance, even to the Middle Ages. The other bridge, characteristic of the artist's whole philosophy, connects him with antiquity, with mythology. "

Time and again, Perincioli dedicated himself to people in motion: groups of runners, javelin throwers and, as small sculptures, dancers.

Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher writes: “Perincioli is committed to the expression of - external and internal - movement. Mobility and openness also shape his artistic attitude. In his work he reflects on expressions from Germaine Richier to Henry Moore . Initially he mainly worked in stone, then increasingly in bronze. Today he models the templates directly in wax. After the end of the war, under the impression of functionalist architecture, he also turned to non-representational compositions, including wood.

His preferred subjects to this day are runners, dancers and javelin throwers as individual figures or as groups, and recently also horse studies. Powerful, expressive monumental works (javelin thrower, 1964, Bern , Haus des Sports; Engel, 1959, Bern, Schosshaldenfriedhof ) stand alongside moving, delicate small sculptures (dancers, 1960s to 1980s). In some of his small bronzes, for example in Frau am Fenster (1962) and in the group of works Joie de vivre (1972), Perincioli captures magical moments of sensual fascination. The figurative and abstract small sculptures have a playful and some also a poetic quality (Schlüsselmannli, 1966; Septett, 1965). His drawings on figurative motifs reflect the speed of writing and the immediacy of expression. "

Fred Zaugg emphasizes the artist's humanistic concerns: "Marcel Perincioli's last work is called« Liberté », his« refugee group »is in the ICRC in Geneva, and his heart belonged to the handicapped and the afflicted as well as to the dancers and the athletes."

From 1961 to 1966, Perincioli served as the central president of the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects (GSMBA). During this time, he explicitly encouraged women artists to join this association. He also obtained the possibility for the sculptors to make a series of up to six original casts for small sculptures.

In 2004 he and his children founded the "Foundation Hélène and Marcel Perincioli-Jörns", which supports young artists (especially dance and music) with scholarships.

The director Cristina Perincioli is his daughter.

Awards

In 1947, 1948 and 1953 Perincioli received art prizes from the city of Bern for composition, portrait and athletics; 1959, 1966 and 1967 gold medals for sports sculpture, for church art (Seconda Mostra internationale d'Arte Sacra Triest) and at the XVIII. Mostra del Fiorino in Florence; 1969 Medal at the 2nd International Biennial of Sport in Art in Madrid.

Marcel Perincioli's grave in Bern's Schosshaldenfriedhof - in which his wife Hélène Perincioli is also buried - was awarded the status of a "personality grave" by the city of Bern.

plant

  • 1938 Portrait of Prof. Dr. de Quervain , Inselspital Bern
  • 1939 «Narcissus I», Brunnen Staatsarchiv Bern
  • 1942 Flute player, house Brunnadernstrasse 95, Bern
  • 1943 "Florian and his angel", relief on the fire station in Bern
  • 1945 Koerfer-Fehr grave, Bolligen cemetery
  • 1947 Maternity, Mattenkrippe, Bern
  • 1948 lioness, entrance to Worbla, Ittigen
  • 1949 Two relief sculptures in the building of the fire insurance institute, Bern
  • 1950 "Genius", Thun trade school
  • 1950 “Narcissus”, HS Collection, Muri BE
  • 1950 Five bell reliefs, Gümligen Church
  • 1951 Pulpit, communion table and baptismal font, Chapelle Romande, Thun
  • 1951 Bronze group "Liberation Petri", Chapelle Romande, Thun
  • 1952 Habich tomb, Rheinfelden
  • 1952 “Good Shepherd”, Grosshöchstetten school building
  • 1953 Maternity, Ostermundigen school building
  • 1953 Relief at the entrance to the Thun savings bank
  • 1953–1955 Two bronze doors and communion table in the Nydegg Church , Bern Fig.
  • 1954 “Mercy” group, Ziegler Hospital
  • 1954 "Grosse Pietà", Flawil cemetery
  • 1955 Group boys and girls, Rothus secondary school, Bolligen
  • 1955 Standing youth, Bremgartenfriedhof , Bern
  • 1956 Group of boys with a dog and a fountain, Ostermundigen village square
  • 1957 “Good Shepherd”, Stettlen
  • 1958 Rossel family grave, Bümpliz
  • 1958 Big Angel, Frutigen cemetery
  • 1958 Pulpit, Last Supper table and baptismal font, St. Stephen's Church, Spiegel near Bern
  • 1959 Maternity, Swiss Embassy Belgrade
  • 1958/59 Grosser Engel, Schosshaldenfriedhof , Bern
  • 1960/61 Javelin thrower group, Schonau sports complex, Bern
  • 1961 Big Runner, Magglingen and Rüfenacht Schoolhouse
  • 1962/63 "David and Goliath", Kirchberg secondary school
  • 1963/64 Large Javelin Thrower, House of Sport, Bern
  • 1964 anchor cross in red lava, Bremgartenfriedhof crematorium, Bern
  • 1964 pulpit plate, parish hall chapel Calvin, Bern
  • 1965 Form II
  • 1965 Group of five runners, City of Bern, PTT Bern, Madrid, Fluntern sports complex, Zurich
  • 1966 Reusser grave, Schosshaldenfriedhof , Bern
  • 1966 sculpture in the courtyard of the parish hall, Bolligen
  • 1966/67 Relief of the entrance hall of the General Management of the Swiss Volksbank, Bern
  • 1967 Footballer Group, European Youth Team Prize, Moscow
  • 1967/68 "Noah's Ark" relief on the schoolhouse in Ferenberg, Bolligen
  • 1968 Bronze sculpture on the Losinger AG administration building, Bern-Fischermätteli
  • 1969 Concrete sculpture, Eisengasse school complex, Bolligen
  • 1969 Two bronze reliefs, Bethlehem Church, Bern
  • 1969 bronze sculpture, Hünibach School, Hilterfingen
  • 1970 Garden sculpture in bronze, FR Collection, Bern
  • 1970 Relief in nickel / bronze, Amtsersparniskasse Münsingen
  • 1970 Fountain, Buchsee School, Köniz
  • 1971 Wooden sculpture «Libuda», Lower Gantrischhütte
  • 1971 Relief in nickel / bronze, entrance hall health insurance of the Canton of Bern, Bern
  • 1972/73 wooden sculpture, Rüti school complex, Ostermundigen
  • 1972 Studies «Joie de vivre», small sculptures in bronze and sketches
  • 1973 Bronze relief on the Publicitas / Vita building, City-West, Bern
  • 1973/74 bronze sculpture in front of the new building of the radio studio, Bern
  • 1974 bronze sculpture parish hall, Mörigen
  • 1974 Monumental sculpture in aluminum, Buchholz School, Thun
  • 1975 Sculpture in Cor-Ten steel, EH collection, Flugbrunnen BE
  • 1977 O Wirz's tomb, Bremgartenfriedhof, Bern
  • 1979 Fountain «Jona», Seedorf Cemetery, BE
  • 1979 Relief in aluminum, CARBA, Liebefeld, BE
  • 1979 Resurrection, bronze, grave of Hélène and Marcel Perincioli, Schosshaldenfriedhof , Bern
  • 1980 Plastic in Cor-Ten steel for ETB Burgdorf
  • 1980 Large relief in aluminum, Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, Bern
  • 1980 Plastic in Cor-Ten Stahl, Cantonal Health Insurance, Bern
  • 1981 “Cité”, entrance hall of the Resident Savings Fund, Bern
  • 1981 Keimende Form, S. Collection, Essen
  • 1982 Form III / 65, Swiss National Bank, Zurich
  • 1995 «Refugee Group», International Red Cross, Geneva
  • 199x Three abstract shapes, Füllerich sports field, Gümligen

literature

  • M. Perincioli, W. Fries, J. Latour: Les 100 ans de la Société des Peintres Sculpteurs et Architectes suisses / 100 Years Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Aarau (GSMBA) 1965.
  • Alfred Scheidegger, Marcel Perincioli: Perincioli. Bern 1969.
  • Alexander Müllegg, Marcel Perincioli: Marcel Perincioli . Catalog for the exhibition in the Thunerhof 22. Febr.-30. March 1969, Thun (art collection) 1969.
  • Marcel Perincioli: Records. Bern 1986.
  • Hans Christoph von Tavel, Max von Mühlenen: Marcel Perincioli. Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7272-9521-X .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography, works and reception of Etienne Perincioli at www.perincioli.ch , accessed on June 9, 2011
  2. ↑ Etienne Perincioli in: SIKART - Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein , accessed on June 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Inauguration of Florian and the Angel. In: Die Berner Woche , vol. 33, issue 17, 1943, p. 476
  4. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Bronze Companion - even Narcissus is there . In: The Bund . Bern June 14, 2011 ( perincioli.ch [PDF; 871 kB ; accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  5. ^ Directorate for civil engineering, traffic and urban greenery, Stadtgrün Bern (ed.): Der Schosshaldenfriedhof. A walk with stories, Bern (Switzerland) 2017, p. 19. On p. 20 there is also a photo "The great angel of Perincioli is moved by the fire brigade, 1964". The "Sitting Athlete" is shown on the cover of the publication, the article on the name of Perincioli can be found on p. 22. Download the complete brochure at [1]
  6. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Bronze Companion - even Narcissus is there. In: The Bund. Bern, June 14, 2011
  7. ^ Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher, In: SIKART Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein. , accessed June 12, 2011
  8. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Bronze Companion - even Narcissus is there. In: The Bund. Bern, June 14, 2011
  9. ↑ since 2001 visarte.schweiz , accessed on June 12, 2011
  10. ↑ cf. Berner Zeitung from May 20, 2014, The city of Bern leaves famous people in the cemetery to rest , ".... The criteria are strict: Tombs will only be preserved for posterity if it is the grave of a personality," the one in their life's work "..." [2] , accessed on February 24, 2017 , has achieved exceptional results
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  21. ↑ Marcel Perincioli: "Form II" 1965. In: perincioli.ch. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  22. ↑ «Open Community» - Bolligen parish hall, 1966. Photo: Marcel Perincioli. In: perincioli.ch. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Betonplastik, Eisengasse School, Bolligen, 1969. Photo: Albert Winkler. In: perincioli.ch. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Fig.
  25. ↑ Marcel Perincioli: Climbing plastic made of aluminum, Buchholz School, Thun, 1974. In: perincioli.ch. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Perincioli, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2005
Place of death Bern