Wetz (artist)

Werner Alois Zihlmann alias Wetz (born January 18, 1961 in Wolhusen ) is a Swiss painter, object artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Sursee , Beromünster , Fulda and Belp .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman and training as a psychiatric nurse, Werner Zihlmann took courses at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts .

Since the mid-1980s, Wetz worked as a freelance artist in Wolhusen and Berlin. From 2003 to 2010 he ran the so-called Wetz museums in Uffikon , which were expanded into a total work of art as art and culture in the country , including KKL Uffikon and Tempelhof Uffikon in Dagmersellen . After the company closed in 2010, Zihlmann started his new project Art and Culture in the Beromünster regional transmitter (KKLB) in the former premises of the Beromünster regional transmitter . a. in collaboration with Roman Signer , Rochus Lussi, Alois Hermann, Silas Kreienbühl and Sipho Mabona .

Exhibitions

• 2002 Museum of Nature Neuchâtel, Wetz.02 - stranded in Neuchâtel

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Zihlmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wetz. In: Sikart
• Official website
• Wetz on Art Forum Central Switzerland
• Top 100 - the most important cultural heads in Central Switzerland (PDF; 1.6 MB), in the culture magazine (2007).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Eiholzer: The temple of Uffikon - the largest art installation in Switzerland is opened. (No longer available online.) In: Kulturplatz. SF1, April 8, 2009, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved August 22, 2011 . 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.  
2. ^ Nicole Salathé: End of a place of pilgrimage - "Tempelhof" and "KKL Uffikon" have to close. (No longer available online.) In: Kulturplatz. SF1, June 10, 2010, archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; Retrieved August 21, 2011 . 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.  
3. ↑ Demolition of the temple. (No longer available online.) In: Schweiz aktuell. SF1, November 12, 2010, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved August 21, 2011 . 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.  
4. ^ Wetz: Art and culture in the state broadcaster Beromünster (official homepage). Künstlerstudio Wetz, December 3, 2013, accessed on December 3, 2013 . 
5. ^ Stefan Eiholzer: Wetz without Expo. (No longer available online.) In: Schweiz aktuell. SF DRS, March 25, 2002, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved August 22, 2011 . 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.