Oskar Dalvit

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Oskar Dalvit (born March 11, 1911 in Zurich ; † December 10, 1975 there ) was a Swiss painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

After completing his compulsory schooling, Oskar Dalvit completed an apprenticeship with a sign painter in Zurich from 1925 to 1929 and then trained as a graphic artist at Orell Füssli . He gave up a job as a commercial graphic artist in 1936 and subsequently worked as a freelance painter. In the same year he married Hilda Schneider. This connection resulted in two children, daughter Gisela (1941) and son Matthias (1945–2002). In 1938, together with Walter Binder, he founded the self-publisher “Der Brunnenhof”. Apart from study trips to Italy (1936, 1937), Paris (1938), Berlin and Munich (1939), Oskar Dalvit lived in Zurich all his life. From 1943 he regularly spent the summer months in Amden. From 1953 to 1965 Dalvit taught "Abstract Painting and Drawing" at the Zurich Adult Education Center. In 1975 Oskar Dalvit died of heart failure. He found his final resting place in the Hönggerberg cemetery .

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The drawn early work of Oskar Dalvit was under the influence of Hans von Marées and Otto Meyer-Amden . For the drawings he mainly used pencil, charcoal and Indian ink, and although he was drawn to abstract painting from the start, he forced himself to draw meticulously from nature. Later this formal-external study of nature increased into the expressive. Influenced by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's work in Switzerland, his painted work began in 1939 with the “Cycle of the Blind”, which is characterized by strong, pastose colors. Dalvit also turned to artistic printmaking. In the woodcuts for the edition "A Book of Life", an accentuation of the psychologist resulting from the examination of CG Jung's teaching became noticeable. Dalvit's work subsequently broke away from the natural model and, influenced by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky , found its own style with abstract shapes and colors. Painting and graphics always went side by side in Oskar Dalvit's work. In the general public, however, Dalvit was mainly known for his prints. His friendship with Ernst Jünger resulted in two editions: the book “December; December; bois de Noël ”with twelve colored woodcuts by Dalvit and a text by Jünger and in 1970 the book“ Träume; Träume; Nocturnes ”, to which he contributed hand-colored linocuts. From 1970 Dalvit mainly worked with wooden reliefs.

The estate of Oskar Dalvit with around 2,410 drawings and prints, photos and exhibition posters is in the graphics collection of the Zurich Central Library .

Editions and folders (selection)

  • A book of life. 23 multicolored woodcuts. The Brunnenhof, Zurich 1941.
  • The ages. Portfolio with 6 hand-colored woodcuts. The Brunnenhof, Zurich 1941.
  • Amden diary. Reflections on art and nature. Rascher, Zurich 1961.
  • December. Bois de Noël. 12 multicolored woodcuts. Text by Ernst Jünger. Arcade Press, Zurich 1964.
  • Philographic 5. Portfolio with 6 one- and two-tone woodcuts. Publisher Heinz Engel, Olten 1966.
  • Dreams. Nocturnes. 9 multi-colored, hand-colored linocuts. Text by Ernst Jünger. Arbon press, Arbon 1970.

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1948: The London Gallery, London. Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel. Gallery Chichio Haller, Zurich.
  • 1949: Galerie de la Paix, Lausanne.
  • 1950: The Redfern Gallery, London. Gallery Otto Stangl, Munich.
  • 1951: Galerie Dietrich, Brussels. Salto Gallery, Milan.
  • 1952: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Art Museum, Michigan. The Arts Club of Chicago.
  • 1953: Galerie d'Art moderne, Basel.
  • 1954: Art Museum St. Gallen .
  • 1955: 6 Pittori Svizerri, Galleria del Fiore, Milan.
  • 1958: Museum of Art, San Francisco.
  • 1961: Wolfsberg Art Salon , Zurich.
  • 1962: Hilt Gallery, Basel.
  • 1967: Gallery in the White House, Winterthur.
  • 1971: Collection of graphics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
  • 1988: Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau.
  • 1991: Galerie Steiner, Zurich.

literature

  • Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath: Oskar Dalvit. ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1994.
  • Alfons Rosenberg: Oskar Dalvit. Graphics. Documentation 2. Documentation publishing house, Zurich 1971.
  • Alfons Rosenberg: Oskar Dalvit. Way and work. Documentation 1. Documentation publishing house, Zurich 1968.
  • Oskar Dalvit. In: Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, XX. Century. Volume 1, Huber, Frauenfeld 1958.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.adhikara.com/oskar-dalvit/biography.htm Biography of Oskar Dalvit
personal data
SURNAME Dalvit, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1975
Place of death Zurich