Uli Schoop

Uli Schoop in his workshop, 1957

Max Ulrich "Uli" Schoop (born October 17, 1903 in Cologne ; † September 5, 1990 in Hombrechtikon ) was a Swiss sculptor and painter. He became known for his animal sculptures, in the design of which he was guided by the principle "to find the essentials, up to the greatest possible simplification".

Life

Uli Schoop, also called Ulrich Schoop (like his grandfather) or Max Ulrich Schoop (like his father), was born on October 17, 1903 in Cologne as one of five children of the inventor and manufacturer Max Ulrich Schoop and his wife Martha Bächler. A number of prominent members have emerged from the long-established Swiss Schoop family:

Ulrich Schoop , Uli's grandfather, was a well-known art educator and didactician.
Paul Schoop , one of his two uncles, was a technician and inventor like his father.
Friedrich Maximilian Schoop , his other uncle, was a journalist and president of the Grand Hotel Dolder .
This uncle's four children all took up artistic careers: Max Schoop became a painter, Trude Berliner became an expression dancer and dance therapist, Hedi Schoop became a cabaret artist and sculptor and Paul Schoop became a composer.

When Uli Schoop was born, his father was working as head of the laboratory at the Cologne Accumulatoren-Werke . In the same year the family moved to Paris, where the father worked as head of laboratory for the car manufacturer Dinin . In 1910 the family returned to their father's hometown in Zurich.

Uli Schoop attended primary school in Zurich- Höngg , then the Hof Oberkirch rural education home near Kaltbrunn . In 1923/1924 he took the general class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and did an apprenticeship as a graphic designer at Orell Füssli , a Zurich printing company that also printed securities, postage stamps and banknotes. In 1924/1925 he was a painting student in Willy Hummel's studio in Zurich. In 1925 Uli Schoop turned away from painting and studied sculpture as an apprentice and volunteer with the animal sculptor Fritz Behn in Munich. In between he stayed in Zurich, where he often met the sculptor Hermann Haller .

Uli Schoop lived in Paris from 1926 to 1939. He opened a successful hand-weaving mill, ran his own studio and was a member of the artist group Abstraction-Création . After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he returned to Switzerland. He moved into a studio in Zurich and lived in Killwangen until the mid-1960s and then in Spreitenbach . He later moved to Egg, a district of Muri in the canton of Aargau . He went on study trips to Egypt (1951), Algiers (1953) and Brazil (1964). In Aargau he was also known for his sculpture courses , which he held from 1961 in the old church in Boswil ( Künstlerhaus Boswil ). From 1957 to 1973 he taught figure drawing for architecture students as a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich .

plant

Uli Schoop is mainly known as an animal sculptor. How he came about, he described - reluctantly ("I am aware that the artist should not write") - in 1956 in the small essay on my animal sculptures :

"What has moved me to study the world of forms of animals over and over again and to create the plastic experience of their being in plastic material is quite simply the love of nature-loving people for animals."

“It was never enough for me to take a picture of any animal, be it a deer or a flying gull, a cicada or an elephant, as true to life as possible. I have always tried to find the essentials, to the point of simplification as much as possible. I am trying to shape the harmony of movement, the tensions of the surfaces to each other, nature in abstraction into a universally valid new creation, in short, to recognize the real essence of the animal. "

During his time in Paris, the artist “found the way to his personal expression ... at that time he created a series of works that already have the typical tightness of his later sculptures. After devoting himself entirely to abstract art for a year, he has come to more natural representations of a strict structure and a certain kind of grandeur. "

Back in Switzerland he dealt “alternately with the plastic possibilities of humans and animals, and in doing so, especially in the field of portrait busts, he achieved a power of expression that bears testimony to a secure spatial sensation and excellent craftsmanship is particularly evident in the direct processing of the stone. "

Works (selection)

Further works: #Tavel 1967 .

1932: Hyena , stone sculpture, height 39 cm.
1939: Tiger , porphyry, length 50 cm.
1941: Elasmosaurus, prehistoric reptile , terracotta, height 25 cm.
1942: duck , terracotta, height 20 cm.
before 1943: three bathers , bas-relief, slate.
before 1943: camel , terracotta, height 20 cm.
1947: Storks , plaster of paris, display at the "Züka", Zurich Cantonal Agricultural and Commercial Exhibition, Zurich 1947.
1949: cat , diabase, Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau.
1951: Drei Möven , bronze, private collection.
1956: Kleiner Fuchs , aluminum, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1972: Panther , Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau.

Art in public space

Sources: #Muggli 2014 , #Heusser 1981 , #Rotzler 1951 , #Tavel 1967 .

1941: Marabu , bronze, Bachtobel School, Zurich.
1941: Bär , Stein, Probstei School, Zurich.
1945: Rotkäppchen , Stein, Landenberg green area, Zurich- Wipkingen .
1949: Eulen , Stein, Saatlenstrasse park, Zurich- Schwamendingen .
1950: Relief, terracotta, Kunsthaus Chur.
1951: Heron , bronze, Wetzikon.
1951: Seated woman with dove , granite, cemetery near the church, Zurich- Unter-Affoltern .
1954: Acrobats , bronze, Suhr .
1957: Vogel , Eisen, school house, Reckingen .
1957: Saurier , Stein, canton school, Wetzikon .
1958: Polar bear , granite, Gfellergut fountain, Zurich.
1959: Fox and goose , aluminum, facade sculpture, primary school building in the lake, Elgg.
1959: Brunnen, primary school in the lake, Elgg.
1960: Storch , aluminum, school building, Gipf-Oberfrick .
1963: Flight , aluminum, school building, Gockhausen .
1970: Stone sculpture, school house, Kurzdorf .
1964: Three birds in flight , aluminum, Zurich reinsurance company .
1970: Stone sculpture, outdoor swimming pool, Engstringen.
1974: bronze sculpture, Helvetiaplatz , Zurich.

Seated woman with dove , 1951, Unter-Affoltern .
Owls , 1949, Schwamendingen .

Little Red Riding Hood , 1945, Wipkingen .

Exhibitions

Sources: #Muggli 2014 , #Heusser 1981 , #Vollmer 1958.2 . See also: #Tavel 1967 .

from 1928: Salons des Indépendants et d'Automne, Paris.
1937: Collective exhibition, Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich.
1942: Exhibition of Swiss artists from Paris, Kunsthalle Bern.
1947: "Züka", Zurich Cantonal Agricultural and Commercial Exhibition, Zurich.
1948: Galerie Georges Moos, Zurich.
1952: Uli Schoop, Annemarie Nowacka, Galerie zum Strauhof, Zurich.
1952: M. Hegetschweiler, Bruno Meier , Eugen Meister , Heinrich Müller, Walter Sutter, AH Sigg, Henry Wabel, Heini Waser, Alfred Meyer, Uli Schoop, Art Museum St. Gallen .
1954: Uli Schoop, Maurice Barraud , Wolfsberg Art Salon , Zurich.
1955: Uli Schoop, Meinrad Marty, Atelier Hermann Haller , Zurich.
1956: Galerie Palette, Zurich.
1956: Galerie Beno, Zurich.
1962: Uli Schoop, Werner Christen, Gallery 6, Aarau .
1962: Uli Schoop, Werner Christen, Galerie Rauch, Baden .
1964: Gallery 6, Aarau.
1971: Uli Schoop, Burgdorfer-Elles Gallery, Zurich.
1971: Uli Schoop, Paul Haehlen, Galerie im Kornhaus, Baden.
1971: Oskar Zimmermann, pictures and drawings, Uli Schoop, sculptures, Galerie Spatz, Riehen .
1971: International Hunting Exhibition, Budapest Art Museum.
1979: Uli Schoop, Werner Urfer, Städtische Kunstkammer zum Strauhof, Zurich.

Memberships

1933–1937: Abstraction-Création artist group

Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors (GSMBA)

literature

Web links

Commons : Uli Schoop - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

↑ #Schoop 1956 .
↑ #Seelig 1958 .
^ History of the Landerziehungsheim Hof Oberkirch: Landerziehungsheim Hof Oberkirch .
↑ #Muggli 2014 , #Schoop 1956 .
↑ #Muggli 2014 , #Schoop 1956 , #Tavel 1967 .
↑ #Schoop 1956 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 , #Muggli 2014 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Schoop 1942 .
↑ #Rotzler 1951 , #Muggli 2014 .
↑ #Schoop 1956 , Figure 1, #Muggli 2014 .
↑ #Schoop 1956 , Figure 3, #Muggli 2014 .
↑ #Schoop 1956 , Figure 2, #Muggli 2014 .
↑ # Bénézit 1999 .
↑ Das Werk , Volume 46, Issue 4, 1959, Page 123, doi : 10.5169 / seals-35949 .
↑ # Bénézit 1999 .
↑ #Rotzler 1951 .
↑ See Bruno Meier .
↑ #Br. 1956 .
↑ # Carpenter 1971 .
↑ #Schoop 1956 .
↑ #Muggli 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schoop, Uli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schoop, Ulrich; Schoop, Max Ulrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	5th September 1990
Place of death	Hombrechtikon

[1] #Schoop 1956 .

[2] #Seelig 1958 .

[3] History of the Landerziehungsheim Hof Oberkirch: Landerziehungsheim Hof Oberkirch .

[4] #Muggli 2014 , #Schoop 1956 .

[5] #Muggli 2014 , #Schoop 1956 , #Tavel 1967 .

[6] #Schoop 1956 .

[7] #Schoop 1942 .

[8] #Schoop 1942 .

[9] #Schoop 1942 , #Muggli 2014 .

[10] #Schoop 1942 .

[11] #Schoop 1942 .

[12] #Schoop 1942 .

[13] #Schoop 1942 .

[14] #Schoop 1942 .

[15] #Rotzler 1951 , #Muggli 2014 .

[16] #Schoop 1956 , Figure 1, #Muggli 2014 .

[17] #Schoop 1956 , Figure 3, #Muggli 2014 .

[18] #Schoop 1956 , Figure 2, #Muggli 2014 .

[19] # Bénézit 1999 .

[20] Das Werk , Volume 46, Issue 4, 1959, Page 123, doi : 10.5169 / seals-35949 .

[21] # Bénézit 1999 .

[22] #Rotzler 1951 .

[23] See Bruno Meier .

[24] #Br. 1956 .

[25] # Carpenter 1971 .

[26] #Schoop 1956 .

[27] #Muggli 2014 .