Werner Otto Leuenberger
Werner Otto Leuenberger (born December 21, 1932 in Bern , † April 11, 2009 ibid) was a Swiss painter , draftsman , printmaker and sculptor . He produced thousands of works and belonged to the “heroic” generation of the Bernese avant-garde of the 1960s.
Leuenberger's art
His works cannot be assigned to any school; the loner was never committed to a group. Most of his early work, meditative flat abstractions reminiscent of Serge Poliakoff , he overpainted with other motifs.
1960s
At the end of the 1960s, Leuenberger occupied himself with woodcuts and turned away from the dissolution of form towards a geometrical, simple composition of surfaces (gear wheel, um -cloud, violin shape) . Later, in terms of content and form, he concentrated on concrete but symbolic «means of communication» (ropes, ladders, letters) . That can be associated with minimal art . Leuenberger produced sculptural works in the field of object art with the rope boxes . The later painted sculptures, built from boxes, laminated with paper, are primarily about “three-dimensional painting”.
1970s
In the mid-1970s, Leuenberger dealt with figurative painting again , but limited himself to individual motifs (pastoral letters, juggler's letters, wings, bread, star) . The processing in the various media enabled a detailed examination of the design restrictions and freedoms.
1980s
The painting MO was created between 1983 and 1984 . With this, Leuenberger reached - after hundreds of studies - the political confrontation with contemporary history, as well as with Picasso's Guernica . From 1986 to 1987 he designed the stage set for Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound with oversized moving figures on behalf of the Bern Art Museum .
1990s
Around 1990 he turned away from oil painting . As a result, he focused on thin, almost transparent paint application that does not allow retouching. Instead of centrifugal compositions in bright colors, he now used a simple picture structure in watercolor-like pastel tones . From 1995 he relied on denser, multilayered application of paint in individual groups of motifs. As before, Leuenberger worked with a cyclical concentration on individual figurative motifs: box theater, black cooks, paper flowers, bistro, curtain .
literature
- Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art, publisher: Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich and Lausanne, Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishing house.
- Werner Otto Leuenberger . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 84, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023189-2 , p. 246.
Web links
- Juerg Albrecht: Leuenberger, Werner Otto. In: Sikart
- Website by Werner Otto Leuenberger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Otto Leuenberger. Kunsthaus Grenchen , accessed on March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Werner Otto Leuenberger. Kunstreich, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
- ^ WOL Werner Otto Leuenberger. (No longer available online.) Website of Werner Otto Leuenberger, archived from the original on March 3, 2018 ; accessed on March 3, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Werner Otto Leuenberger. Xylon, accessed March 3, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leuenberger, Werner Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter, draftsman, printmaker and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2009 |
| Place of death | Bern |