Walter Loosli

Walter Loosli (born July 29, 1932 in Sonvilier in the La Chaux-d'Abel district; † November 29, 2015 in Köniz ) was a Swiss sculptor , glass painter and designer of church windows.

Life

Loosli trained as a primary school teacher and remedial teacher in Bern. He then completed further training at the Bern School of Applied Arts . He learned drawing from Hans Schwarzenbach and Max Rudolf von Mühlenen . He learned sculpture from Salvatore Meli in Rome.

Loosli has worked as a freelance artist since 1972. His main activity was the design of rooms, especially churches.

Walter Loosli lived in the municipality of Köniz from 1954 until his death, where he ran a gallery.

Exhibitions

• 1991 Galerie Heubühne Oberdiessbach: sculptures and woodcuts
• 1992 Könizer Galerie: wall designs and glass windows
• 1995 Prague Postal Museum: graphics, drawings
• 2001 Könizer Gallery: New Glass Pictures
• 2005 Kirchgemeindehaus Johannes Bern: glass pictures - woodcuts - sculptures
• 2006 Eglise du Pasquart Bienne: Lumières des vitraux
• 2010 Koeniz Culture Court
• 2014 Rüttihubelbad, Walkringen
• 2017 Reformed parish hall in Zollikofen
• 2018 atelier exhibition in Köniz

Works

Reformed Church Schlosswil, choir window by Walter Loosli, 2013

• 1973 District prison, Bern: ceramic wall design in the foyer 233 × 287 cm
• 1985 Meikirch Reformed Church : three ceramic murals with biblical themes
• 1988 Reformed Church Ostermundigen: Wall relief made of wood, "Cross and Ship"
• 1991/92 Catholic Church Interlaken: Fire and Water, Heaven and Earth, two windows in the ship, stained glass, each 700 × 360 cm, Heavenly Jerusalem and World Wheel, two gallery windows, 390 × 105 and 390 × 420 cm, Whitsun wonder window group above the entrance portal, 150 × 180 cm, two flanking side windows, each 154 × 61 cm, Maria in a halo and three lilies, four windows each 152 × 61 cm in the side chapel
• 1997/99 Rüegsau Church: Good Friday, Easter, Whitsun three windows in the choir, two windows, each 175 × 108 cm, central window 360 × 120 cm, the seven days of creation , seven windows in the ship, each 87 × 108 cm
• 1996 new Protestant ref. Church Lyss - side window
• 1999/2011 Glass window in the church in Kappelen BE
• 2003/04 Reformed Church Sigriswil, window
• 2008 Chapel Moron, Bernese Jura, window
• 2011 19 Pavatex cuts to the book about Janusz Korcak "Alone with God, prayers from people who do not pray". Self-published by Kirchgemeinde Johannes, Bern
• 2004 Talita kum - girl get up! Woodcuts by Walter Loosli, texts by Klara Butting and Gerard Minnaard, Erev-Rav publishing house
• 2012 Reformed Church Schlosswil, 3 windows to the Trinity

literature

• Walter Loosli, Stefan Trümpler, Heinz Zwahlen, Fred Zaugg: Glass windows and wall design, Stämpfli Verlag Bern, ISBN 978-3-7272-1080-8

Web links

Commons : Walter Loosli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Walter Loosli in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in Der Bund on December 2, 2015