Robert Schär
Robert Schär (born February 5, 1894 in Steffisburg ; † February 2, 1973 ibid) was a Swiss painter and glass painter .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a ceramic painter, Schär attended the technical center in Freiburg . He then studied in Munich and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Receiving the Federal Art Scholarship in 1927 allowed him to travel to Florence and southern France. Schär was a member of the Museum Commission of the Castle Museum in Thun Castle for more than 30 years and had a significant influence on the exhibition design there. Schär maintained regular contact with Max von Mühlenen in Bern and sent his most talented students to him. One of them was the Thun painter and graphic artist Knud Jacobsen .
plant
Schär designed many glass windows in school buildings, private apartments and churches, for example in the Reformed Churches in Möriken , Reutigen , Wabern and Vinelz , in the village church of Steffisburg or in the Thun crematorium . His most important work are the large glass windows in the Nydegg Church in Bern. During the restoration in 1955, he was commissioned to design the four choir windows. The work carried out in 1957 and 1958 shows the four evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Schär also made drawings, illustrations and paintings. He exhibited his painterly work at various exhibitions in the Thun Art Museum .
Works in public space (selection)
- Nydeggkirche and Markuskirche in Bern
- Reformed Church Langnau in the Emmental
- Reformed Church Moosseedorf
- Reformed Church Möriken
- Church Oberburg BE
- Reformed Church Reutigen
- Steffisburg village church
- Vinelz Reformed Church
- Reformed Church in Wabern near Bern
- Crematorium Thun (together with glass windows by Knud Jacobsen )
- Reformed Church Signau
Web links
- Robert Schär in Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Note: Sikart gives Walterswil as the place of birth, but that was probably Robert Schär's hometown , cf. Literature Thun art in the 20th century , Thun 1964
- ^ Art Commission of the City of Thun (ed.): Thuner Art in the 20th Century, Robert Schär , Thun 1964
- ↑ Annual report of the Thun Castle Museum 1972, obituary for Robert Schär, accessed in October 2017 at: [1]
- ↑ Thomas Seilnacht: Knud Jacobsen - Monograph , Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3952289266
- ^ Society for Swiss Art History (ed.): Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz , Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 1969
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schär, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steffisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1973 |
| Place of death | Steffisburg |