Walter Linck

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Walter Linck (born February 5, 1903 in Bern , Switzerland ; † January 3, 1975 in Reichenbach, Zollikofen near Bern) was a Swiss sculptor .

Life

Walter Linck was the son of the painter Ernst Linck . From 1916 to 1920 Linck received his training at the trade school in Bern and at the Zurich School of Applied Arts in the metalworking class there. From 1921 to 1926 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin in the class for sculpture and sculptor. In 1927 he married Margrit Daepp. Walter Linck moved to Paris in 1928 , where he earned his living as a figure and portrait sculptor. Until 1932 he lived exclusively in Paris. From 1932 to 1939 he lived and worked alternately in Paris and Bern. Since 1935 the figure of a returning traveler with a rising bear has adorned the Bärenplatz fountain in Bern. In 1943, Walter Linck destroyed almost all of his work at the time and only began to use metal . From this point onwards, Linck created abstract filigree and movable wire sculptures and constructions made of elastic steel bands.

From 1956 to 1957 Linck was a professor at the Werkakademie in Kassel . In 1959 he was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in the plastic department . In the 1960s and 1970s Linck created numerous large-format steel sculptures.

literature

  • Walter Linck 1903-1975 , Guido Magnaguagno, Ludmila Vachtova ; (Texts), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 1990
  • Walter Linck - The plastic work , Regula Linck; Michael Baumgartner (text); Swiss Institute for Art Research (Ed.):. Bern 1994, ISBN 3-7272-9037-4
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Hans Christoph von Tavel: Walter - Margrit Linck . Ed .: Kunstmuseum Bern, artist couples - artist friends. Stämpfli + Cie AG, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-7272-9038-2 , p. 112 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Link and the sculpture of the Reisläufer. In: The Bern Week in Words and Images, Vol. 27, 1937, pp. 494–495. ( e-periodica )


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personal data
SURNAME Linck, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1975
Place of death Reichenbach, Zollikofen