Oscar Wiggli

Sculpture in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Iron sculpture LAGAD (1992) in the park of Villa Meier-Severini , Zollikon

Oscar Wiggli (born March 9, 1927 in Olten ; † January 26, 2016 in Delémont ) was a Swiss artist , sculptor and composer .

Life

Oscar Wiggli completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic from 1946 to 1949 and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris from 1951 to 1953 . From 1956 he worked in studios in Montrouge (France) and Muriaux (Switzerland). He dealt with abstract figures. He created iron sculptures , drawings, prints and, from the 1960s, experimental photographs . From the 1980s he also dealt with electroacoustic music . In 2002 the Oscar and Janine Wiggli Foundation was established. In 2009 he was awarded the Prix des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canton du Jura . Director Claude Stadelmann's documentary Oscar Wiggli, sculpteur et compositeur (2013) shows Wiggli's artistic work and personality. His younger sister Rosmarie (1932–2019) was also an artist and married to Franz Eggenschwyler .

Exhibitions (selection)

1968: Municipal Art Gallery Bochum
1972: Kunsthalle Bern
1977: Kunstmuseum Winterthur
1977: Solothurn Art Museum
1980: 39th Venice Biennale
1982: Solothurn Art Museum
1990: Museum for Art and History Freiburg
1994: Art Museum Bochum
1996: Dr. Hans Koenig , Zollikon

Literature (selection)

Erika Billeter: Painting and Photography in Dialog. Benteli Verlag, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-7165-0311-8 , pp. 166-169.
Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold (Ed.): Oscar Wiggli: Sculptures, drawings, photographs and musical projects. Benteli, Bern 1994, ISBN 978-3-7165-0937-1 .
Oscar Wiggli. Exhibition catalog. Bern 2007.
Kjell Keller (Ed.): Oscar Wiggli's music. Muriaux: Editions Iroise, 2010. ISBN 9782940091218
Jochen Hesse: Wiggli, Oscar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Oscar Wiggli - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Oscar Wiggli in the catalog of the German National Library
. Literature by and about Oscar Wiggli in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Sandi Paucic: Wiggli, Oscar. In: Sikart
Oscar Wiggli In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
fondationwiggli.ch

Individual evidence

↑ Jochen Hesse: Wiggli, Oscar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
↑ Oscar Wiggli, sculpteur et compositeur swissfilms.ch. accessed on November 19, 2018.
^ Sikart: Rosmarie Eggenschwiler-Wiggli. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wiggli, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss artist, sculptor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olten
DATE OF DEATH	January 26, 2016
Place of death	Delémont

[1] Jochen Hesse: Wiggli, Oscar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[2] Oscar Wiggli, sculpteur et compositeur swissfilms.ch. accessed on November 19, 2018.

[3] Sikart: Rosmarie Eggenschwiler-Wiggli. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .