Otto Staiger

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Otto Staiger (born September 3, 1894 in Basel ; † September 5, 1967 there ) was a Swiss glass painter and painter. He also dedicated his work to watercolor and woodcut .

Life

Art Museum Basel. 1936, stained glass by and Otto Staiger (1894–1967) and Charles Hindenlang (1894–1960)
1936, Kunstmuseum Basel

Otto Staiger completed an apprenticeship in glass painting with his uncle from 1911, where a short time later Albert Müller also became his apprentice. He also attended painting courses with Albert Wagen and Albrecht Mayer at the general trade school in Basel.

From 1919 to 1922 he worked with the painter Hans Stocker in Geneva , where he turned away from traditional dark-tone painting. In 1922 he moved to Besazio in Ticino . In 1925 he joined the Red-Blue group , which also included Paul Camenisch , Hermann Scherer and Albert Müller.

From 1926 to 1929 he executed the glass windows in the newly built Antonius Church in Basel with Hans Stocker and in 1948 the glass windows in the vestibule of the University Hospital Basel . In 1927 he returned to Basel. In 1933 he was a co-founder of the Basler Künstlervereinigung Gruppe 33 .

Since 1938 he had his own glass painting workshop on Birsstrasse in Basel. Some of his works emerged from the competitions of the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wagen, Albert. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Robert Hess, Architecture and Art: Otto Staiger and Hans Stocker, Antoniuskirche in Basel. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 1944, glass window in the University Hospital Basel


personal data
SURNAME Staiger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss glass painter and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1967
Place of death Basel