Traugott Senn

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Traugott Senn (born September 9, 1877 in Maisprach ; † April 21, 1955 in Ins ; resident in Zimmerwald ) was a Swiss painter who became known for his landscape paintings .  

life and work

Traugott Senn was the son of a teacher in Maize language. He attended secondary school in Bern and then the municipal trade school, where he trained as a decorative painter . At eighteen, he spent four years at the mill and worked in different cities of southern Germany . Since his health was not the best he had to give up his job and he decided to pursue a career as an artist.

When he returned to Bern, Senn attended the arts and crafts school from 1901 to 1903 . A scholarship enabled him to study with Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris for a year . Here he met Adolf Tièche . Both returned to Switzerland in 1904, where they joined the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects Section Bern and later helped found the Kunsthalle Bern .

Senn was a representative of the "Bern School" led by Ferdinand Hodler , which also included Adolf Tièche, Emil Cardinaux , Eduard Boss , Ernst Linck , Emil Prochaska (1874–1948) and Max Eugen Brack (1878–1950). Senn exhibited his works for the first time in 1902 at the rotating exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association and in the following years regularly participated in exhibitions at home and abroad.

Senn married in 1916 and lived in Ostermundigen , Rubigen and Belp , where he found the motifs that suited him. Senn found his actual home in 1924 in Ins, the birthplace of Albert Anker . Senn felt like a soul mate to him.

Senn's pictures are in collections in Bern, Freiburg and La Chaux-de-Fonds . He presented his works a. a. in the Kunsthalle Basel , Kunsthalle Bern in the Kunstmuseum Bern , Kunsthaus Zürich , Kunsthaus Glarus and in Munich in the Glaspalast . Traugott Senn is considered an artistic discoverer of the Bernese Seeland and a innovator of the paysage intimate .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traugott Senn. In: Berner Woche, Vol. 38, 1948, p. 310
personal data
SURNAME Senn, Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Corn language
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1955
Place of death To the BE