Bruno Weber (10 April 1931 – 24 October 2011) was a
Swiss artist and architect, specializing in
fantastic realism.
Biography
Early life
Bruno Weber was born in 1931 in
Dietikon
Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area.
Geography
The i ...
, Switzerland. In 1947, he completed college in Zürich under
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (''Staatliches Bauhaus'') school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feining ...
, the inventor of a "
color sphere". Afterwards he began training until 1949 as a lithographer with
Orell Fuessli (
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Zürich ...
); later he studied in Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia.
Career
Weber extended his
Bruno Weber Park (a sculpture garden) in
Spreitenbach
Spreitenbach ( High Alemannic: ''Spräitebach'') is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'').
It lies southeast of the district center, directly on the ...
and Dietikon, where among other things, his house with a 25m high tower is situated. The park extends over a surface of 20'000 m². The sculpture park is the synthesis of the artist's life work, and is visited annually by thousands of people.
From 1991 to 2003 Weber was responsible for the sculptural decorations on the
Uetliberg
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The Uetliberg (also known as Üetliberg) is a mountain in the Swiss plateau, part of the Albis chain, rising to . The mountain offers a panoramic view of the entire city of Zürich (to the northeast of its summit) and the Lake of Zur ...
mountain, including the street lamps leading to the ''top of Zürich'' plateau (''Uto Kulm'') and park benches, that still exist.
Weber co-operated with Zürich architect
Justus Dahinden
Justus Dahinden (18 May 1925 - 11 April 2020) was a Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture.
Life
Dahinden was born in Zürich. From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich (ETHZ), graduating in 1956 with his Ph ...
, making sculptures for buildings in Dahinden, Vienna and Zürich.
He discovered his passion for three-dimensional sculptures after thirty years of painting. On the basis of his paintings, development can be recognized contrary to his sculptures, which orients itself to Cézanne and Gubler.
In 2006, the municipalities of Spreitenbach and Dietikon inaugurated a road – ''Bruno Weber Weg'' – leading from Dietikon railway station to the
Bruno Weber Park.
Awards (excerpts)
* 1999–2001: ''Werkbeiträge
Migros
Migros () is Switzerland's largest retail company, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It is also one of the forty largest retailers in the world. It is structured in the form of a cooperative federation (the Federation of Mig ...
''
* 2006: ''Bruno Weber Weg''
Literature
* Hans-Ruedi Bramaz, edited by Stefan Howald, designed by Helen Ebert. With contributions by
Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler (born 1 March 1943) is a Swiss author and cabaret performer based in Zürich.
Life
Hohler is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, storie ...
, Fritz Billeter, Peter K. Wehrli, Roman Hocke, Helene Arnet, Peter Conrad, and a foreword by Christine Egerszegi-Obrist: ''Bruno Weber: Die Kraft der Phantasie. Ein Lebenswerk''.
Hirmer Verlag
Hirmer Publishers is the name used by Hirmer Verlag, a German art book publishing house based in Munich, for its operations in the English-speaking world.
Publishing history
The publishing house was founded in 1948 by Max Hirmer and his wife ...
, Munich, .
* Peter K. Wehrli, photographs by Robert Elter: ''Bruno Weber - Der Architekt seiner Träume''. Benteli, 2002, .
References
External links
Official site "''Bruno Weber - A world full of fantasy''"Entry of Bruner Webre in ''labyrinthe''with extensive biographic information
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1931 births
2011 deaths
Swiss architects
Swiss sculptors
Place of death missing
People from Dietikon District