Max Oertli
Max Oertli (born August 5, 1921 in Sargans , † December 8, 2007 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor .
Career
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Max Oertli trained as a graphic designer at the Basel School of Applied Arts from 1938 to 1941 . He lived and worked in Sankt Gallen from 1942, initially with Werner Weiskönig . Oertli worked as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, photographer, teacher and gallery owner. He was particularly successful as a sculptor with his large-format objects in urban areas. The content of his drawings and paintings was the human being and the human environment.
Well-known works by Oertli are the juggler fountain (1960), the fountain sculpture at Neumarkt and the Johann Linder fountain (1993) in St. Gallen.
His first marriage was to Marthe Hirschmann, who died in 1987; the marriage had three children. He later married the painter and sculptor Margrit Edelmann.
Awards
- 1954: Sponsorship award from the city of St. Gallen
- 1985: International Art Prize of the State of Vorarlberg
- 2002: Recognition award from the city of St. Gallen
literature
- Max Oertli, Simone Schaufelberger-Breguet: Oertli: Maler + Sculptor , St. Gallen 2002, ISBN 3-908151-24-4 .
- Max Oertli: Kind regards from India , St. Gallen 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Oertli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tages-Anzeiger : "Max Oertli is dead" , December 10, 2007.
- “An old fountain sprays with a young sprayer shine” , Credit Suuisse Bulletin 4/2002
- Entry by Max Oertli in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Oertli, Max. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oertli, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sargans |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 2007 |
| Place of death | St. Gallen |