Peter Moilliet

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Karl Peter Moilliet (born November 5, 1921 in Bern ; † March 10, 2016 in Allschwil ) was a Swiss sculptor .

Peter Moilliet (1921–2016) sculptor, Pietà, red sandstone, 1947–1949, sculpture in the cemetery at Hörnli, location: 47 ° 34'05.5 "N 7 ° 38'24.5" E, 47.568193, 7.640134
Pietà, red Schirmecker sandstone, Hörnli cemetery
Rudolf Riggenbach (1810–1863) Monument Conservationist, Sculpture Title: Things Things, by Peter Moilliet (1921–2016) Sculptor, on Leonhardskirchplatz, Location: Leonhardsberg, 47 ° 33'19 "N 7 ° 35'16" E
Rudolf Riggenbach (1810–1863) monument conservator. Location: Leonhardsberg, Basel

Life

Peter Moilliet, son of the painter Louis Moilliet , came to Basel in 1937 after finishing school in Graubünden and completed an apprenticeship as a stone carver . In 1942 he worked briefly as an assistant to Karl Geiser and decided to train as a sculptor with Germaine Richier in Zurich , who trained budding artists. In her school he got to know the professional model Maria Vanz; they married in 1946. After 1945 he established himself as a freelance artist and settled in Allschwil near Basel, where he has lived and worked ever since. In 1948 he was one of the founders of Kreis 48 . His wife worked for sculptors such as Karl Geiser, Otto Charles Bänninger and Germaine Richier.

Moillliet, Willy Hege , August Suter , Ernst Suter , Louis Léon Weber , and Alexander Zschokke were invited to the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt competition entries for the grave of the lonely in the Hörnli cemetery in 1946 . Moilliet's reclining sculpture Pietà was awarded first prize.

Sculpture 1966. The four evangelist symbols made of Kirchheim shell limestone. By Peter Moilliet (1921–2016), sculptor in the Hörnli cemetery.
The four evangelist symbols made from Kirchheim shell limestone in the Hörnli cemetery .

Works

Peter Moilliet mainly worked figuratively and in stone. Modeled sculptures in plaster or bronze , drawings and sketches round off his work. Numerous free sculptures are in public space in north-western Switzerland. The Moilliet figures are kept in a style typical of him, which is characterized by reduced gestures and archaic composition of forms. The human body inspired Moilliet to do numerous works in the form of free-standing sculptures, reliefs or portrait busts. Representative examples are:

  • Pietà , reclining sculpture, 1946–1949, which adorns the grave of the lonely in the Basel cemetery on the Hörnli.
  • The four evangelist symbols , a monumental free sculpture made of Kirchheim shell limestone that was created for the same cemetery in 1961–1966.
  • Monument conservator Riggenbach , a life-size bronze sculpture on Leonhardskirchplatz in Basel.
  • Lorelei , 1952–1955, fountain in Margarethenpark in Basel.
  • People of Today , 1972, wall relief, Riehen parish hall

literature

  • Biographical lexicon of Swiss art. Publisher: Swiss Institute for Art Research. Zurich / Lausanne 1998.
  • Peter Moilliet. P. Mohler and A. Oberer. Liestal 1993
  • Peter Moilliet: Stone by stone. D. de Gruyter, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-033-02429-8 .
  • Anna M. Schafroth: Peter Moilliet - From the Pietà to the dream houses. In: M. Gass, M. Glatt, A. Jetzer (eds.): Die Basler Künstlergruppe Kreis 48. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85616-810-0 , pp. 134–149.
  • Agathe Straumann, Basel-Stadt Education Department. Peter Moillet. In: Art for Basel: 75 years of art credit Basel-Stadt. Art in public space. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 1974, ISBN 3-7965-0968-1 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Moilliet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Peter Moillet , art-people.ch
personal data
SURNAME Moilliet, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moilliet, Karl Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2016
Place of death Allschwil