Ruedi Sommerhalder

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Ruedi Sommerhalder (* 1947 in Wettingen ) is a Swiss artist.

Life

Sommerhalder grew up in the monastery district of Wettingen . In the recruit school he was trained as a military diver, where he got to know and love Switzerland's moated castle , which continues to inspire him to this day. After the Wettingen teachers' seminar , he attended the Basel School of Applied Arts and graduated with a diploma for higher education in fine arts. He has lived in Untersiggenthal since the late 1970s , where he has had his studio in the Stroppel area since 1995. He worked as an artisan and canton school teacher in Wettingen . He is now retired and takes boat tours on the Reuss and Aare rivers . Ruedi Sommerhalder is married and has grown children with his wife Tonia.

art

"Wassertor" in Brugg-Lauffohr
Roundabout in Untersiggenthal

Ruedi Sommerhalder works with wood, steel, stones and other materials, but is also committed to other artists. He was one of the initiators of the Limmat Culture Trail , which opened in 1991 and stretches from the wooden bridge between Wettingen and Neuenhof to the wooden bridge in Baden .

Works (selection)

  • wegzeichen (1993), Wettingen
  • Reading stones , Stetten parish hall
  • Three-part group of figures with communion table (wood, 1995) together with Otto Strauss, Birmenstorf Reformed Church
  • Art Bridge (1997), Untersiggenthal
  • Bridge to the Future (Eisenplastik, 2002) Kunstweg Bad Zurzach
  • fontaine bleue (2003), at various locations in the canton of Aargau
  • Wassertor (2006), Lauffohr traffic circle
  • Kreiselschmuck (2006), Untersiggenthal
  • Triangulation points , Schaffhausen Art Trail

Projects and exhibitions (selection)

  • 2003: “FLUSS” / “everything flows” at the state ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of the canton of Aargau, light, water and sound sculpture, as a total work of art in collaboration with Pit Gutmann and Marian Beck
  • 2006: randen ARTour , art in nature on the Randen in Schaffhausen with Roman Signer , Roger Willemsen , Beat Toniolo , Landart from Hanover, Maike Gräf, Hans Ruh , Pierre Favre

Publications

  • with Sabine Altorfer and Urs Faes: «Culture Path» Baden - Wettingen - Neuenhof. Baden 1991.
  • Kunstraum 5430, art in Wettingen. Wettingen community, Baden 1995.

Web links

Commons : Ruedi Sommerhalder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Theme path: The Art Path
  2. ↑ a b c AZ of August 8, 2009: Here you can feel the inspiration
  3. ↑ www.toniolo.ch
  4. ↑ AZ from January 10, 2014: The Sommerhalder couple celebrates ten years of the Garnhaus cultural center.
  5. ↑ The pylons in the shell
  6. ↑ http://www.garnhaus.ch/index.php/kontakt
  7. ↑ NZZ of May 14, 2003: Sculpture made of water, light and sound on the Limmat
  8. ↑ Concert information from Pit Gutmann
personal data
SURNAME Sommerhalder, Ruedi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947