Peter Storrer
Peter Storrer (born April 19, 1928 in Dornach SO ; died September 3, 2016 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor.
Live and act
Peter Storrer's father worked as a publisher and was an employee of Rudolf Steiner . He had an accident with a sport airplane when Storrer was two years old. His Danish mother worked as a journalist for the magazine Du, among others . Storrer occasionally attended the Steiner School , where he felt comfortable. He saw himself as an autodidact in many areas.
Storrer did an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor in Bern and worked for Hans Aeschbacher in Zurich, who at the time cut a bull out of a large boulder.
Storrer had his sculpting studio in the Red Factory . He belonged to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Zürcher Bildhauer (AZB), which also supported him in casting his sculptures in concrete. The painter Varlin was a role model for him .
He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .
literature
- Storrer, Peter. In: Sikart (as of: 2018), accessed on October 27, 2019.
- Dorothee Vögeli: What many overlook. In: NZZ , December 28, 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Storrer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dorothee Vögeli: an expert without a stage . Obituary, in: NZZ , September 7, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/prd/Deutsch/Bevoelkerungsamt/tod/friedhoefe/prominenteverstorbene/Promi_Alpha.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Storrer, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dornach SO |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 2016 |
| Place of death | Zurich |