Max Hunziker

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Max Hunziker (born March 6, 1901 in Zurich ; † September 9, 1976 there ) was a Swiss painter , graphic artist , glass painter and illustrator .

Life

Max Hunziker, born in 1901, grew up in Zurich- Wiedikon and attended the teachers' seminar in Küsnacht . After completing his teacher training, he turned to painting. 1920–1925 Hunziker stayed in Florence . From 1926 a stay in France took place, during which he taught mural painting at the Académie Ranson in Paris. Hunziker returned to Zurich in 1934. In 1975 he received the award for cultural merit from the city of Zurich . Max Hunziker died in Zurich in September 1976. He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

Works

Strongly impressed by sacred art in Italy, Max Hunziker then dealt with the paintings of Paul Cézanne and Georges Rouault in France .

After his return to Switzerland, in addition to painting in oil and tempera and graphics, he increasingly occupied himself with glass painting. He was influenced by the works of art he had seen in Paris, Chartres, Bourges and Le Mans.

Hunziker produced numerous glass paintings for public and private clients. His picture windows can be found in various churches, for the first time in 1946 in the Reformed Church in Thalwil or, for example, in the Johanneskirche in Bern , the Matthäuskirche in Zurich , the Old Church in Wollishofen and in the Evangelical Reformed churches of Trub (Bern) and Volketswil (Zurich ) and in the choir of the monastery church Kappel am Albis .

For the private scholar Oskar Rudolf Schlag , Max Hunziker designed a tarot card set consisting of 22 major arcana, according to his information.

On behalf of the Gutenberg Book Guild , Hunziker created, among other things, a book illustration for Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus . In this context he dealt with different printing techniques and was responsible for the resumption of the technique of hand zinc etching .

The graphic estate of Max Hunziker with 156 graphic sheets in 327 copies, sketch books and around 350 zinc clichés for Hunziker's prints is in the Zurich Central Library . The estate of the glass painting work is to be found in the estate of the Ganz family of glass painters, with whom the artist further developed the organic glass painting developed by BASF.

literature

  • Max Hunziker and Karl Ganz - a collaboration from the Thalwil church windows to the development of the organ glass. Edited by Andreas Friedrich, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-464-7 .
  • The choir window by Max Hunziker in the Johanneskirche Bern. Edited by Jürg Liechti-Möri, Johannes Kirchgemeinde, Bern 2001.
  • Ernst H. Gombrich : Max Hunziker: Painting: an exhibition for the 100th birthday, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, May 9 to June 9, 2001. Wolfsberg Art Salon , Zurich 2001.
  • Ernst H. Gombrich: On ethos in the fine arts, thoughts on Max Hunziker's 70th birthday. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 5, 1971, p. 33.
  • Pierre Walter Müller: Max Hunziker . Verlag Anton Schöb, Zurich 1963. Awarded one of the most beautiful Swiss books in 1963.
  • Max Hunziker. In: Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, XX. Century, Volume 1. Huber, Frauenfeld 1958.
  • Olaf Rader: Tarot. Pillars of initiation. Publisher RGS, St. Gallen 2003.
  • Angela Schiffhauer: The stained glass windows of the Volketswil Church. ( Swiss Art Guide , No. 935, Series 94). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-119-2 .
  • PM: Max Hunziker, illustrations for the book Thyl Ulenspiegel In: Architektur und Kunst, Vol. 27, Issue 10, 1940, pp. 297-300.

Web links

Commons : Max Hunziker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olaf Räderer: Tarot. Pillars of initiation. Publisher RGS, St. Gallen 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Hunziker, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1976
Place of death Zurich