Yoki

Yoki (1966)

Yoki (born February 21, 1922 in Romont FR as Emile Aebischer ; † November 12, 2012 in Givisiez ), entitled to live in Heitenried and St. Antoni FR , was a Swiss artist.

Life

Emile Aebischer was born in 1922 as the son of Emile Aebischer, saddler, and Clotilde born. Gauthier born. In 1951 he married the Irish actress Joan O'Boyle. In 1937 he found work in the Electroverre glass factory in Romont, was a draftsman for Fernand Dumas from 1939 to 1942, and worked in the architectural office of Dumas and Denis Honegger until 1946 . From 1946 to 1947 he was a student at the Academy of André Lhote in Paris . Yoki maintained close contacts with Germaine Richier , Maurice Barraud and Gino Severini . After the destruction in World War II , from 1950 to 1961 Yoki participated as an architect, decorator, landscape painter and glass painter in the reconstruction of listed buildings in Germany, Great Britain and France. With glass designs for the Christ-Roi church in Freiburg (1972) he contributed to the renewal of Swiss sacred art. In 1981 he co-founded the Musée suisse du vitrail et des arts du verre in Romont.

Emile Aebischer and Joan O'Boyle are the parents of Patrick Aebischer , who was President of the EPFL from 2000 to 2016 .

Honors

• 1996: Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and Prix Claude Blancpain.

literature

• Bernard Garnier, Yoki et al: La Société fribourgeoise des amis des beaux-arts: des origines à 2011 . Société fribourgeoise des amis des beaux-arts, 201, p. 100 .
• Hubert Perler, Yoki: Sensler Heimatmuseum in Tafers 1982 . Sensler Heimatmuseum, Tavers 1981, p. 12 .
• Georges Borgeaud, Michel Terrapon: Yoki . Musée d'art et d'histoire, Friborg 1978, p. 138 .
• Yoki: Catalog de l'art monumental . Rotten-Verlag; Sion: Fondation Albert Chavaz, Visp 2000.

Web links

• Gabrielle Schaad: Yoki. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 25, 2015 , accessed May 1, 2020 .
• Yvonne Lehnherr: Yoki. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on May 1, 2020.
• SDA: Freiburg artist Yoki died at the age of 91. In: Freiburger Nachrichten. Freiburger Nachrichten AG, November 14, 2012, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 

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