Robert Scherer (artist)
Robert Scherer (born June 7, 1928 in Kortsch ) is a South Tyrolean sculptor , painter , graphic artist and glass artist .
Live and act
He completed elementary education in the catacomb school . His parents opted to emigrate to Germany in 1939. Stations were Linz and Ottensheim (1939/40), Rufach (1942), Schweiklberg (1943) and Heidelberg .
1944/45 he had the German Wehrmacht and got into Berlin in American captivity . In 1945 he returned to Ottensheim. In 1946 he fled the Soviet occupation zone and returned to his birthplace and hometown of Kortsch.
Between 1947 and 1949 he was employed as an apprentice for a decorative painter in Schlanders and for a restorer in Bruneck . From 1951 to 1958 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Santifaller , Albert Paris Gütersloh , Herbert Boeckl and Christian Ludwig Martin . He graduated with a diploma in painting and graphics . He devoted two years to studying architecture with Clemens Holzmeister .
From 1960 to 1966 he taught art education in Brixen , Klausen , Bruneck and Bozen , started his first exhibitions and received his first orders for wall paintings . In 1966 he settled as a freelance artist in Bolzano, traveled and studied in Italy. From 1968 he worked as an employee at the Fucina degli Angeli glassworks . In 1969 he moved to Eppan , 1974 to Altenburg near Kaltern and in 1988 back to Eppan. From 1977 to 1980 he taught wall painting at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg . He turned the Palazzo Malfatti in Ala into a graphics center. Scherer is co-founder and director of the fresco school in Bozen (1980 to 1985 South Tyrolean Education Center). From 1996 he taught at the European Development Center for New Glass Techniques in Bolzano.
His artistic work includes wall painting, design and execution of glass windows, sculptures and mosaics, pencil, India ink, red chalk, chalk and pastel drawings as well as watercolor as temperea, oil and acrylic painting.
For some time he belonged to the Upper Austrian Art Association .
Exhibitions
- Brunico City Museum (2008)
- Kastelbell Castle , organized by the South Tyrolean Artists Association (2008)
Awards
literature
- Elfriede Zöggeler-Gabrieli: The wayside shrine at Tribusplatz , in: Lananer Gemeindeblatt, No. 10, November 2010, p. 10.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alarte centrografica - Art Cabinet, in: website of Artists.it
- ↑ Robert Scherer on his 80th birthday, in: Kultur.bz.it
- ↑ Robert Scherer, in: Web presence of the South Tyrolean Artists Association
- ↑ Laureate 2003 - Robert Scherer, in: Web presence of Latin-Art-Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherer, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor, painter, graphic artist and glass artist (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korsch |