Rudolf Mumprecht

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Rudolf Mumprecht (born January 1, 1918 in Basel ; † July 25, 2019 in Bern ) was a Swiss draftsman and painter .

Life

Mumprecht was born in Basel and grew up in Bern . His talent for drawing showed up early on, but it was only during his apprenticeship as a cartographer, which he completed in 1938 as a draftsman-lithographer, that he dealt in depth with artistic forms of design. During his active service in World War II , he continued to develop his artistic skills on an autodidactic basis. Objective drawings were created, mostly landscapes and portraits.

To escape the narrowness of Bern and Switzerland, Mumprecht made several trips to different countries after the end of the war. From 1949 to 1954 he lived in Paris, where mainly lithographs and aquatint sheets were made. During a further stay in Paris-Versailles between 1960 and 1964, he created the first large-format pictures.

Since his return to Switzerland in 1964, Mumprecht lived and worked in Köniz and since 1986 also in Brione sopra Minusio . He died on July 25, 2019 in the “Burgerspittel Viererfeld” in Bern.

Mumprecht's estate is in the Burger Library in Bern .

Create

With his first stay in Paris, a long period of searching and experimentation began, which led Mumprecht more and more to abstraction. The informal painting and the related liberation of the line established the connection to the international development: the works created from 1954 fit seamlessly into the contemporary art movements of Tachism and abstract expressionism . Although he belonged to the avant-garde with his gestural work, he did not join any of these movements, but remained a conscious loner.

Around 1970, after he had tried out the possibilities of gestural painting that were of interest to him, Mumprecht went one step further. With the script and language images that have been created since then, the peinture d`écriture , the artist achieved an independent artistic expression that was largely independent of contemporary trends and styles. In their multilingualism, his pictures cross cultural borders. The written statement becomes the core of the work of art.

Gifts

  • 1992: Museum of the City of Locarno: The entire work of etchings from 1944 to 1992 (480 etchings)
  • Since 2002: Burgerbibliothek Bern: Figurative miniature drawings from the years 1945–1947, 300 owl caricatures from the years 1960–1980, 55 sketchbooks, drafts and studies for various projects as well as 1200 "lettres sans adresses", a constantly growing collection of Unordered records on A4 sheets (partial estate)

Awards (selection)

  • 2003: Honorary gift from the UBS Cultural Foundation Zurich
  • 1998: Culture Prize of the Burgergemeinde Bern
  • 1995: Paul Haupt AG Bern Prize
  • 1985: Les meilleures affiches suisses
  • 1983: Prix de la Fondation Wilhelm Gimmi Lausanne

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: Kunstmuseum Bern, Hommage à Mumprecht. Between the words - entre les paroles - fra le parole
  • 2012: Kunsthaus Interlaken, Pendants Parlants
  • 2010: Museo Elisarion, Comune di Minusio (Locarno), Musica-Segni-Linguaggio
  • 2009: School for Design Bern, Mumprecht. Word laboratory
  • 2008: Casorella Città di Locarno, L'opera incisa
  • 2008: Kunstmuseum Bern, "white black red"
  • 2006: Köniz, picture installation in the atrium of the municipal administration
  • 2002: Wildhaus, Sunnehus Foundation
  • 2002: Brienz Violin Making Foundation Foundation
  • 2002: Kunstmuseum Bern, Bibliothèque insolite (on the occasion of the donation to the Burgerbibliothek Bern)
  • 2000: Spiez Castle Foundation, image text sound
  • 1998: Pinacoteca Casa Rusca, Città di Locarno, L'opera incisa
  • 1995: Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Œuvres récentes
  • 1996: Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, Milano, Antologia
  • 1990: Abbatiale Bellelay, Grands formats
  • 1988: Musée de la ville Martigny, 50 ans de dessins
  • 1982: L'oeuvre gravé Musée de la ville de Martigny
  • 1972: Kunsthalle Bern, typefaces
  • 1973: Tableaux écrits Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble
  • 1960: Galerie Berggruen, Paris, Monotypes

Literature (selection)

  • Homage to Mumprecht. Between the words - entre les paroles - fra le parole , exhib. Cat. Kunstmuseum Bern 2013, with contributions by Alice Henkes, Marianne Keller Tschirren and Liselotte Wirth Schnöller, Bern 2013.
  • Susanne Graf-Brawand, “Mumprecht lives in language and from language. A literary index to Mumprecht's work ”, in: Mumprecht , Edition Atelier 1 + 1, Köniz 2009, pp. 37–43.
  • Marianne Keller Tschirren, “Musica e Segni”, in: Mumprecht , Edition Atelier 1 + 1, Köniz 2009, pp. 20–27.
  • Martin Kraft, “Border Crossers between Image and Language”, in: Messages de l'atelier , Bern 2003, pp. 36–38.
  • Edmond Charrière, “Mouvements, actions, essais, recherches”, in: Bibliothèque insolite , Bern 2001, pp. 9–13.
  • Margrit Bachofen-Moser, “Characters, letters, numbers. A code of life engraved in metal ”, in: Mumprecht , exhib.-cat. Pinacoteca Casa Rusca, Locarno 1998.
  • Rudolf Mumprecht. Oeuvres récentes 1992-1995 , exhibition cat. Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds 1995.
  • Maurice Besset, “J'ai gagné du temps en attendant”, in: Mumprecht , exhib.-cat. Pinacoteca Casa Rusca, Locarno 1992, pp. 128-135.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Mumprecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Language should also be an image . In: Der Bund , August 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Mumprecht's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
personal data
SURNAME Mumprecht, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2019
Place of death Bern