Oscar Miller (paper manufacturer, 1862)

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Oscar Miller (born November 25, 1862 , † April 5, 1934 in Bern ) was a Swiss paper manufacturer, art collector, patron, donor, author and politician.

Life

Ernst Oscar Miller (nickname Oscar) was born as the son of Oscar Miller of the same name . He attended the canton school in Solothurn . He studied chemistry at the Zurich Polytechnic and graduated with a diploma. As the successor to his father, he ran the Biberist paper mill from 1887 (or 1892) to 1926 , from 1893 together with his brother-in-law Gustav Eisenmann . In 1887 he married Caroline Elisabeth Sieber, the daughter of the manager from the neighboring cellulose factory Attisholz . From 1900 to 1917 he represented the Liberal Democratic Party in the Cantonal Council of Solothurn . He was on several boards of directors.

From 1896 Miller built up an important collection of contemporary Swiss art, which included works by Cuno Amiet , Ferdinand Hodler , Hans Berger , Frank Buchser , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Modersohn , Félix Vallotton , Otto Roos , Fritz Overbeck and others. He was a sponsor of the Solothurn and Bern art museums . The majority of his collection is now in the Solothurn Art Museum. Miller commissioned the sculptor Max Leu for a portrait bust.

Miller was a member of the artists' association Die Brücke and maintained close contact with the artists. He said: “I'm not such a rich man that I can build a gallery of all first-class pictures. I don't care too much either. I'm interested in the development of a person ... »He wrote various writings on the subject of art.

Miller was a citizen of Biberist and the father of the Solothurn painter Werner Miller .

Publications

  • Comment j'ai acquis mes tableaux, comment j'ai appris à les comprendre et ce qu'ils me disent , 1903 (trad. Henry Spiess) dans La Voile latine n ° 4 (1908) p. 49-61 et 90-104
  • From fabric to shape. Essays by Oscar Miller. 3. Edition. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1907.
  • My relationship to art. Trials by Oscar Miller. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1910.
  • Something of what my pictures teach me. Biberist 1931.

literature

  • Oscar Miller, collector and pioneer of Swiss modernism. Solothurn 1998, ISBN 3-906663-48-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Reitz, Knowledge and Life, 1921-1921: The Oscar Miller-Biberist Art Collection. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Miller, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paper manufacturer, art collector, patron, donor, author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1862
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1934
Place of death Bern