Jean Albert "Schang" Hutter (11 August 1934 – 14 June 2021) was a Swiss sculptor.

Biography

From 1950 to 1954, Hutter worked for his father as an apprentice stonemason and attended the

Kunstgewerbeschule A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: ''School of Arts and Crafts'' or S''chool of Applied Arts'') was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for thes ...

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

. In 1954, he moved to

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and studied under

Charles Crodel Charles Crodel (September 16, 1894 – November 11, 1973) was a German painter and stained glass artist. Life Crodel was born in Marseille, he studied in 1914 with Richard Riemerschmid, one of the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund, at the M ...

and

Josef Henselmann Josef Henselmann (16 August 1898 in Sigmaringen – 19 January 1987) was a German sculptor and professor. Henselmann was born in Sigmaringen, Province of Hohenzollern. After studying at the Gymnasium he completed an apprenticeship to be a woo ...

at the

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until 1961, when he moved back to Switzerland for

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. On 28 February 1998, he installed a sculpture honoring the victims of the

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at the

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as part of the 200th anniversary of the

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. However, it was placed three meters away from the originally agreed location and was removed four days later following a complaint from the

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. Hutter spent his later years in

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. In celebration of his 80th birthday, a special exhibition was held at the Tramdepot Burgernziel in Bern in 2014. Schang Hutter died in

Solothurn Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; rm, ) is a List of towns in Switzerland, town, a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality, and the Capital (political), capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the n ...

on 14 June 2021 at the age of 86.Sikart.ch
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References

1934 births 2021 deaths Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni People from Solothurn Artists from Genoa 20th-century Swiss sculptors 21st-century Swiss sculptors {{Switzerland-sculptor-stub