Hans Erni

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Hans Erni , born the February 21st 1909 with Lucerne, is a painter Suisse.

He works during his youth as draftsman out of building. In 1927, it joined the school of art of Lucerne. Since 1928, it goes in various towns of Europe of which Paris and Berlin. It meets there Kandinsky, Mondrian and well of others. Its influences are clearly cubists through Braque and Picasso. At the end of the years 1930, it makes several Voyage S with London where it discovers the abstract movements. From 1930 to 1934, he works under the Pseudonyme of François Grèque . It is only after the war that its Génie bursts with many paintings and exposures. Erni works in several workshops disseminated in Europe. It takes part in the creation of the Swiss Alliance, a group of Swiss artists.

It carries out Fresque S, a form of expression which it always appreciated. Erni is also at the origin of many stamps intended for Swiss postal and telecommunications authorities (Station, Télégraphe and Telephone), the organization Pro Juventute, the Liechtenstein and UNO. In 1979, the museum bearing its name opens in Lucerne close to the Swiss Musée of transport. In 1989, Erni receives a price for its works in the sporting field on behalf of the United States Sports Academy with Daphne, Alabama. In 1992, Erni carries out the Portrait of the General secretary of UNO, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, which is posted in the building of UNO with New York. UNO was to some extent played the part of Mécène since many works of Erni were Mandat ées by the organization.

Erni is still an active painter and very popular in Switzerland, its talent is not limited only to painting but also to the Sculpture and the Gravure. Its single style, with marked contours of a white feature, fleshy characters but accurately represented at the sides of animals, returned it Célèbre. The Science, the Histoire and the Mythologie are recurrent themes, its paintings put in scene contrast between the Antiquité, the contemporary world and the Civilization S. Of many exposures are devoted to him, whether it is in Switzerland or Europe.

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  • Stamps of Hans Erni

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