Bruno Weber
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Bruno Weber (10 April 1931 – 24 October 2011) was a Swiss artist and architect, specializing in fantastic realism.
Life
Bruno Weber was born 1931 in Dietikon, Switzerland. 1947 Weber completed the college of arts and crafts in Zurich under Johannes Itten, the founder of chromatics. Afterwards he began training until 1949 as a lithograph in Orell Fuessli, Zurich. Later study trips followed to Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia.
Since 1962 Weber constantly extends his sculpture garden in Spreitenbach and Dietikon, where among other things such as his house with a 25m high tower is situated. The park extends on a surface of 20'000 m². The sculpture park is the synthesis of the artist's life work, who is visited annually by thousands of people. After Weber offended for many years the building rules in Dietikon and Spreitenbach because of its not always completely rule-conformal procedure, now a peaceful Coexisistence seems to have adjusted itself. Thus an association was created, in order to signal the way up to the park with columns from Weber to. To help the work on the water garden go forward (the heart of the park), a Bruno Weber donation was founded.
From 1991 to 2003 weber was responsible for the space configuration on the Uetliberg. Today still the sculpture way stands.
Bruno Weber co-operates in particular with the inhabitant of Zurich architect Justus Dahinden. Weber has sculptures for the buildings of Dahinden, for example the original restaurant Tantris in Munich, which realizes front of the university library of the technical university in Vienna and the bull house in Zurich.
Before Weber discovered its passion for the three-dimensional sculptures, he painted well thirty years long pictures. On the basis of his pictures a development can recognize contrary to its sculptures, which at Cézanne and Gubler orients itself. The latest pictures show him as a fantastic realist, with which he is most appropriate characterized.
Documents
- 1991 - Gesichter der Schweiz of Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf
