Bruno Weber

The home of Bruno Weber, as of today the Bruno Weber Park

Bruno Weber (10 April 1931 – 24 October 2011) was a Swiss artist and architect, specializing in fantastic realism.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Bruno Weber was born in 1931 in Dietikon, Switzerland. In 1947, he completed college in Zürich under Johannes Itten, the inventor of a "color sphere". Afterwards he began training until 1949 as a lithographer with Orell Fuessli (Zürich); later he studied in Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia.

Career

One of the deer lamps on Ueltiberg mountain

Weber extended his Bruno Weber Park (a sculpture garden) in Spreitenbach 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.^[2] From 1991 to 2003 Weber was responsible for the sculptural decorations on the Uetliberg 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, 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
• 2006: Bruno Weber Weg

Literature

• Hans-Ruedi Bramaz, edited by Stefan Howald, designed by Helen Ebert. With contributions by Franz Hohler, 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, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7774-2081-3.^[3]
• Peter K. Wehrli, photographs by Robert Elter: Bruno Weber - Der Architekt seiner Träume. Benteli, 2002, ISBN 3-7165-1263-X.

References

1. "Zürcher Künstler Bruno Weber im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben" Archived April 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
2. "Bruce Weber". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
3. "Hausmitteilungen Nr. 48/2011 vom 01.12.2011: Andenken an Bruno Weber" (in German). WOZ Die Wochenzeitung. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2014-11-03.

External links

Media related to Bruno Weber at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site "Bruno Weber - A world full of fantasy"
• Entry of Bruner Webre in labyrinthe with extensive biographic information
• Bruno Weber in the German National Library catalogue