FRANZ GERTSCH
Franz Gertsch
1930 Bern, Switzerland – 2022 Riggisberg, Switzerland
Inspired by his father’s interest in drawing and music, Franz Gertsch already receives positive impulses as a small child for his later artistic life. His artistic abilities become apparent at an early age. From 1947 to 1950, Gertsch attends the painting school Max von Mühlenen, and then studies craftsmanship with the painter Hans Schwarzenbach in Bern until 1952. From 1957, Gertsch’s works are shown in exhibitions such as “Die Zeichnung im Schaffen junger Schweizer Künstler” at the Kunsthalle Bern.
Catalogue
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“Light and colour are the central element in Gertsch’s woodcuts. The artist never ceases to surprise us with his choice of colours because he produces both prints with strong colours such as vermillion, ochre-brown and carmium yellow or lapis lazuli and manganese blue in addition to the subtlest shades of green, brown and violet that quasi suggest apparitions in the mist.”
Erika Schlessinger-Költsch
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