Otto Charles Bänninger

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Otto Charles Bänninger (born January 24, 1897 in Zurich ; † May 15, 1973 in Zurich ) was a Swiss stone sculptor , bronze sculptor and draftsman. He is one of the most important sculptors in Switzerland between and after the war.

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Otto Charles Bänninger (1897–1973) sculptor. Sculpture Janus, 1962, located on Totentanz Square in Basel. 47 ° 33 ′ 42.17 ″ N, 7 ° 35 ′ 9.21 ″ E. He was married to the sculptor Germaine Richier from 1929–1951.
Janus, 1962

Otto Charles Bänninger completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Franz Wanger in Zurich from 1913 to 1918. From 1920 to 1921 he was at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he studied with Antoine Bourdelle . In 1928 Bänninger traveled to Florence, Rome, Naples and Pompeii to study antiquity and the Renaissance . After Bourdelle's death in 1929, Bänninger completed some of his works in the following two years. He worked in Paris until 1932, then went back to Zurich, where he stayed until his death. Keep returning to Paris for a few months. In 1936 Bänninger became a member of the Paris art exhibition society Société du Salon d'Automne . From 1929 to 1951 he was married to the French sculptor Germaine Richier , whom he had met as a classmate in Paris at the Bourdelles studio.

Bänninger worked exclusively figuratively. The wife of the sculptor Peter Moilliet , Maria Vanz, was his model. The focus was on human figures, the portrait and the horse. He exhibited his works in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne as well as in Geneva, Basel and Zurich. Most of his sculptures are in the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lausanne and in the Kunsthaus Zurich .

Bänninger's best-known works include the Samaritan group at Zurich's Limmathaus (1931), the 1936 bas-relief The Feeding of the Five Thousand in Würenlos shell limestone on the south facade of the New Church in Wollishofen , the monument by Heinrich Bullinger at Grossmünster (1939–1940) and the Equestrian statue of Henri Guisan in Lausanne- Ouchy, created in 1967 . Before the Zurich Opera House is the 1946 border . The golden shimmering figure of the convalescent in front of the Zurich University Hospital is striking . In 1956, Bännninger created the lively family wall relief for the shopping center on the market square in Oerlikon . For the Swiss National Exhibition in 1939 he created the monumental plaster sculpture Boy with Horse .

Otto Charles Bänninger found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

Awards

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  • 1942: Prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale .
  • 1956: Art Prize of the City of Zurich.

The "Otto C. Bänninger-Weg", where the artist had his studio, is named after Bänninger in the Hirslanden district of Zurich .

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Web links

Commons : Otto Bänninger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Schrödter: Bänninger, Otto. In: Sikart
  2. ^ SIK-ISEA: Otto Charles Bänninger estate. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ ETH Zurich: Bas-relief The feeding of the five thousand. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bronze sculpture in front of the main entrance of the University Hospital Zurich.
  5. ↑ Alex Winiger: 1956, Lively Family. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  6. ^ Art on the Landi: Otto Charles Bänninger.
  7. ↑ rRtro Seals
  8. ↑ old Zurich
personal data
SURNAME Bänninger, Otto Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss stone sculptor, bronze sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1973
Place of death Zurich