Bruno Weber (born April 10, 1931 in
DietikonDietikon 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 :...
,
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
) is a Swiss artist and
architectAn architect is trained and licensed in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e. chief builder...
of
fantastic realismFantastic Realism was a movement which had its hour of glory in the 1960s, and whose founding act was the publication of the book The Morning of the Magicians , subtitled "Introduction to Fantastic Realism." Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels published the book in October 1959, and total...
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Bruno Weber was born 1931 in Dietikon, Switzerland. 1947 Weber completed the college of arts and crafts in Zurich under
Johannes IttenJohannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school...
, the founder of
chromaticsChromatics are a musical act from Portland, Oregon. In October 2007, they released an album on the Italians Do It Better recording label named Night Drive...
. Afterwards he began training until 1949 as a lithograph in Orell Fuessli,
ZurichZürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne...
. Later study trips followed to Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia.
Since 1962 Weber constantly extends his
sculpture gardenA sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings....
in
SpreitenbachSpreitenbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley .It lies southeast of the district center directly on the border with the canton of Zurich....
and Dietikon, where among other things such as his house with a 25m high tower is situated.
Bruno Weber (born April 10, 1931 in
DietikonDietikon 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 :...
,
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
) is a Swiss artist and
architectAn architect is trained and licensed in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e. chief builder...
of
fantastic realismFantastic Realism was a movement which had its hour of glory in the 1960s, and whose founding act was the publication of the book The Morning of the Magicians , subtitled "Introduction to Fantastic Realism." Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels published the book in October 1959, and total...
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Life
Bruno Weber was born 1931 in Dietikon, Switzerland. 1947 Weber completed the college of arts and crafts in Zurich under
Johannes IttenJohannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus school...
, the founder of
chromaticsChromatics are a musical act from Portland, Oregon. In October 2007, they released an album on the Italians Do It Better recording label named Night Drive...
. Afterwards he began training until 1949 as a lithograph in Orell Fuessli,
ZurichZürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne...
. Later study trips followed to Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia.
Since 1962 Weber constantly extends his
sculpture gardenA sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings....
in
SpreitenbachSpreitenbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley .It lies southeast of the district center directly on the border with the canton of Zurich....
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
SpreitenbachSpreitenbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley .It lies southeast of the district center directly on the border with the canton of Zurich....
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
UetlibergThe Üetliberg is a mountain in the Swiss plateau, part of the Albis chain, rising to 873 m . The Uetliberg offers a panoramic view of the entire city of Zürich and the Lake of Zürich. There is also a hotel in the name of "Uto Kulm" on this small mountain...
. Today still the sculpture way stands.
Bruno Weber co-operates in particular with the inhabitant of Zurich architect
Justus DahindenJustus Dahinden is a notable Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture.- Life :From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich , graduating in 1956 with his Ph.D. In 1955 he started his own architecture office in Zürich...
. 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.
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