Oscar Wiggli (9 March 1927 – 26 January 2016) was a Swiss composer and sculptor.

Biography

Oscar Wiggli was born in Solothurn in 1927. After working a few years as a mechanic, he studied

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at the Zurich University from 1949 to 1951. He created his first

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sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

s in 1955. Since 1956, he lives in Paris and in Muriaux, in Switzerland. In 1980, his works were shown in the Swiss Pavilion at the

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. From 1981 on, he also started experimenting and composing with

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s. In 2007, a retrospective was held in the

Kunstmuseum Bern The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: ''Kunstmuseum Bern''), established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the de facto capital of Switzerland. Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses works by Paul Klee, Pab ...

with the

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, both in

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.Kunstmuseum Bern
announcement of the retrospective, with info on the artist

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review of Wiggli's work * 2016 deaths 1927 births Swiss composers Swiss male composers Swiss sculptors People from Solothurn {{switzerland-composer-stub