Silvio Mattioli

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Silvio Mattioli (born February 2, 1929 in Winterthur ; † April 3, 2011 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter, sculptor , iron and steel sculptor .

Life

Silvio Mattioli forged this monumental sculpture Verso La Luce ( Up to the Light ) in the years 1983–1984.

Silvio Mattioli completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor in Winterthur-Hegi from 1945 to 1946 and attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts . Otto Teucher taught him sculpture and Dr. Edwin Gradmann in Stylistics and Art History. In 1948 he made a trip to Paris . He lived there from 1949 to 1950. He was fascinated by Vincent van Gogh's painting. From Paris traveled to Brittany and Normandy and began to paint. He created landscapes, still lifes and portraits , most of which he later destroyed.

From 1950 to 1952 he worked as an assistant to Hans Aeschbacher in Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var), (F) and Zurich. Now he decided to do sculpture. During 1953 he worked temporarily as an assistant in the studios of the sculptors Otto Müller, Eugen Häfelfinger and Alfred Huber. He got to know the architect Ernst Gisel , who gave him orders.

From 1951 to 1954 he worked as a wood and stone sculptor and created archaic female torsos and animals, with which he placed himself in the tradition of archaic sculpture of the 30s and 40s. He traveled to France and Italy for further training. In 1955 he began to work as an iron and steel sculptor. He initially created small sculptures and since 1967 mainly monumental sculptures for public spaces . From 1990 onwards he increasingly devoted himself to small sculptures, in which he took up the formal language of his earlier work phases. The colored version of monumental sculptures was also important to him. In addition to the black, he used a blue-red contrast and, since 1991, also the yellow; Examples of this are Trias from 1990 and Stoll-Plastik from 1991. In watercolors as well as ink and pencil drawings he developed the design of new iron and steel sculptures, or he varied the forms of already executed works. In 2004 he created works in wood and iron, and in 2008 he devoted himself to book design.

Prizes and grants have enabled him to work continuously since 1956. From 1953 to 1968 he worked in his studio at Wuhrstrasse 10 in Zurich, and from 1969 in an old farmhouse in Schleinikon , which he had bought and converted into a home and studio. From 1962 to 1967 he also worked temporarily in a second studio in Manerba del Garda near Verona . His works are in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel , in the Museum zu Allerheiligen , in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur , in the Dr. Walter Bechtler and in the Foundation for Iron Sculpture, Collection Dr. Hans Koenig in Zollikon and in the Kunsthaus Zürich .

Mattioli was married twice and from these marriages had three children, the oldest of whom, Enrico, died at the age of only 36.

Major works

The monumental sculpture Great Upswing in front of Confiserie Sprüngli on Paradeplatz in Zurich.
  • Guardian (small sculpture) 1958
  • Engel (small sculpture 1960) private property, Switzerland
  • Blossom torch (small sculpture 1960), private collection, Stettlen BE, Switzerland
  • Hahn (small sculpture 1960) City of Zurich
  • Ikarus (small sculpture 1960–1961), Sihlfeld cemetery, Zurich
  • Chimeras (small sculpture 1961), AC Center Spiez
  • Roi Ubu (small sculpture 1965)
  • Way of the Cross (small sculpture 1966), Women's Convent of the Good Shepherd, Altstätten (SG)
  • Relief sculpture (small sculptures 1966–1968), Rebacker school building, Herrliberg
  • Tree of Life (small sculpture 1967), Hinterwiden school building, Kloten
  • Crucified Christ (small sculpture 1967–1968), Catholic St. Elisabethenen Church, Kilchberg ZH, Switzerland
  • Winterthur-Leben (Monumentalplastik 1967–1970), Winterthur Insurance, Winterthur ZH, Switzerland
  • The Tree of Life (metal sculpture 1970), garden of the hospital at Limmattal Spital, Schlieren, Switzerland
  • Composition in Kor-ten (monumental sculpture 1972–1973), HSR - Technical University, Rapperswil ZH, Switzerland
  • Steel sculpture (Monumentalplastik 1973–1974), after-treatment center SUVA, Bellikon AG, Switzerland
  • Aufbruch (small sculpture 1978), private collection, Los Angeles, USA
  • Great boom (monumental sculpture 1978–1979), Confiserie Sprüngli on Paradeplatz, Zurich
  • Ring-shaped head (small sculpture 1980), private collection
  • Astro-Lux (Monumental sculpture 1980–1981), Walter Meier AG, Schwerzenbach ZH, Switzerland
  • Kopf (small sculpture 1981) private property, Hüttikon ZH, Switzerland
  • Verso La Luce (monumental sculpture 1983–1984) KPMG , Badener Str. 172, Zurich
  • Steel sculpture (Monumental sculpture 1985–1986), Kloten Airport
  • Steel sculpture (monumental sculpture 1989–1990), border crossing Ramsen
  • Trias (Monumental sculpture 1990) Pierre Gianadda Foundation , Martigny , VS
  • Steel sculpture (Monumental sculpture 1990–1991), company premises of Excelvision AG, Hettlingen
  • Stoll-Plastik (Monumentalplastik 1991), Martin Stoll, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
  • Dynamics (small sculpture 1991) private property, Solothurn, Switzerland
  • Passion , trilogy (small sculpture 1991–1992)
  • Recke (Monumentalplastik 1993–1994), Gericke, Regensdorf ZH, Switzerland
  • Way of the Cross (Monumental sculpture 1999–2002) Forged iron, approx. 5 m, Schrobenhausen Castle Park , Germany
  • Trilogy (Eisenplastik 2002), Hotel Metropol Arbon, Arbon, Canton Thurgau, Switzerland
  • Circulation and spatial sculpture (monumental sculptures without a year), sculpture path (PDF; 2.0 MB) in Bülach, Zürcher Unterland, Switzerland

Prizes and grants

Awards

Master student

literature

Exhibition catalogs

  • Catalog for the Helmhaus exhibition in Zurich: Sculptures from 1956–1986. Helmhaus, Zurich 1986.
  • Wolfgang Schneider: Silvio Mattioli - conqueror of space. Exhibition catalog, Städtische Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck i. W. 1992.
  • Catalog for the exhibition Silvio Mattioli - iron sculptures - works on paper in the Foundation for iron sculptures, collection Dr. Hans Koenig 1997.
  • John Matheson among others: Silvio Mattioli, iron sculptures. Catalog for the exhibition in the Disentis Monastery (preface by Peter K. Wehrli). Self-published in Zurich 2001.

Secondary literature

Silvio Mattioli painted this watercolor as a study for his monumental metal sculpture Astro lux .
  • Alfred Roth: The new school building. Girsberger-Verlag, Zurich 1957.
  • Willi Rotzler: Art in Green Space. In: Work No. 10, October 1959, Winterthur.
  • Paul Nizon: The sculptor Silvio Mattioli. In: Work No. 4, April 1966, Winterthur.
  • Marcel Joray: Swiss sculpture of the present. Editions du Griffon, Neuchatel 1967.
  • Paul Nizon: Discourse of Narrowness. Kandelaber-Verlag, Bern 1970.
  • Helmut Kruschwitz: Silvio Mattioli. In: Turicum. July 1971, Zurich.
  • Fritz Billeter : Mattioli. Monograph on the iron sculptor Silvio Mattioli. ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1975
  • Fritz Billeter: Silvio Mattioli, iron sculptor. In: Art Bulletin, March 1976
  • P. Steidl: The Swiss artist Silvio Mattioli. In: Zeitschrift für Schweisstechnik , No. 12, 1977, Zurich.
  • John Matheson, Herbert E. Stüssi: Swiss sculptor, sculptor and object artist. SBV Waser-Verlag, Buchs 1983.
  • Max Korthals: Who takes it on with the iron ... In: Schweizer Journal , October 1986.
  • John Matheson and Volker Schunk: Eisen 89 - Perspektiven Schweizer Eisenplastik 1934–1989. Offizin Zürich Verlags-AG, Zürich 1989.
  • Matthias Frehner : History of Swiss iron sculpture. Dissertation. Central Office of the Student Union, Zurich 1992.
  • Volker Schunk, Heinz Ruprecht, Monique-Priscille Druey: Silvio Mattioli, monograph. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 1994.
  • Silvio Mattioli, Roy Oppenheim, Abbot Daniel Schönbächler, Katharina Mattioli: Silvio Mattioli - With Fire and Flame - Sculptural Creation 1949-2004. Monograph. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 2004. ISBN 3-7193-1348-4
  • Silvio Mattioli metal sculptor. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 2009. Photo book for the 80th birthday of the artist. With the collaboration of daughter Katharina Mattioli, with a foreword by Matthias Frehner and photographs by Roland Frutig. ISBN 978-3-7193-1512-2

Movie

  • Jean-Claude and Jeanine Heritier: With fire and flame. Zurich 1995.

Web links

Commons : Silvio Mattioli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Other terms: "construction" or (popularly) "railway accident".
  2. Prize winners - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Foundation in the Winterthur Glossary.
  4. Source: Vita Heinz Niederer