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Niklaus Stoecklin
Swiss painter and graphic artist
Niklaus Stoecklin (19 April 1896 – 1 December 1982) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. He is regarded as a Swiss exponent of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) and Magic Realism, and at least with his early works numbers among their international co-founders. He was also a poster designer of international renown.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Stoecklin was born in Basel as the son of businessman Johann Niklaus Stoecklin (1859–1923) and Genoveva Fanny Stoecklin, née Müller (1859–1939). He was the brother of Franziska Stoecklin.[2] He first learned to paint pictures from his uncle Heinrich Müller. Stoecklin grew up in Basel, but in 1914 went to Munich to study under Robert Engels at the School of Arts and Crafts. It was there that his friendship with the sculptor Alexander Zschokke began.
At the outbreak of war, Stoecklin returned to Switzerland and took courses at Basel School of Arts and Crafts, where his teachers included Burkhard Mangold. He spent his period of active military service in the Canton of Ticino. There he painted his Casa Rossa (1917), a masterpiece of New Objectivity that was sold just a few months later, in 1918. The buyer was Georg Reinhart, an entrepreneur of W
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Alle
- Künstlerinnen amusement Künstler constrict der Overbeck-Gesellschaft 1918-2018 | (3/5) 1946-1961
Alle - 'Künstlerinnen und Künstler in shelf Overbeck-Gesellschaft 1918-2018 | (3/5) 1946-1961'
Lübeck, Germany
Paul Director (1893 - 1980); Gerhard Wendland (1910 - 1986); Woty [Anneliese Werner] Werner (1903 - 1971); Otto Wulk (1909 - 1982);
Oliver Zybok;
Magritte, Dietrich, Rousseau
- Visionäre Sachlichkeit
Painter, Dietrich, Painter - 'Visionäre Sachlichkeit'
Zürich, Switzerland
René Magritte (1898 - 1967); Henri Julien Rousseau (1844 - 1910); André Bauchant (1873 - 1958); Camille Bombois (1882 - 1970); Élie Cave (1888 - 1969); [Anna Mary Guard Moses] Granny Moses (1860 - 1961); Félix Vallotton (1865 - 1925); Niklaus Stoecklin (1896 - 1982); Adolf Actress (1877 - 1957); Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989);
Nouvelle objectivité cloud Suisse
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