Richard Arthur Nüscheler

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Richard Arthur Nüscheler (born March 12, 1877 in Zurich , † July 28, 1950 in Boswil , Canton Aargau ) was a Swiss glass painter , painter , heraldist and restorer .

life and work

Nüscheler was the son of the engineer Albert and Francis, née Appleyard from Leeds . He attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts for several years and completed an apprenticeship in glass painting with Karl Wehrli from 1893 to 1895. At the same time he took guest courses at the ETH Zurich with Professors Rahn and Graf, who also promoted him.

In 1898 Nüscheler converted to the Catholic denomination and carried out an order to renovate the glass paintings in the Königsfelden monastery church . Study trips to Germany and Italy followed. He then worked for the “Society for Zurich Heraldists and Historians”, the “Antiquarian Society” and the “Zurich Art Society”. From 1900 to 1901 he restored the stained glass windows of the Notre-Dame de Valère basilica in Sion .

Nüscheler participated in the international exhibitions in Paris from 1902 to 1911 and received a diploma hors concours . He was also a member of the jury. At the Exhibition des Arts in Paris he received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and was appointed officier d'académie . In France he carried out various orders for church windows, cabinet windows, mosaics and sculptures. When he carried out an assignment in Cairo in 1912, he had to interrupt it due to armed conflict and instead traveled through Egypt, Palestine and Greece.

Nüscheler married Marguerite, nee de Vevey from Estavayer in 1914 . When she died four years later, he married Elisabeth, née Ranacher from St. Gallen , in 1919 . They had four children together. From 1919 he lived and worked in Boswil , where he had bought the empty late Gothic-Baroque old parish church, including the Odilokapelle and the large parsonage. He set up his studio in the church. Today, the three buildings together form the Künstlerhaus Boswil .

literature

  • Josef Schilter: Richard Arthur Nüscheler (1877–1950). In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau , Vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 580–581 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Nüscheler, Richard Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss glass painter, painter, heraldist and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1950
Place of death Boswil , Canton of Aargau