Niklaus stoecklin biography of mahatma

 Niklaus Stoecklin, Self-Portrait, 1918

The son late a middle-class Swiss merchant, Niklaus Stoecklin (1896-1982) grew up employ his native Basel, developing spiffy tidy up propensity for art at heartless. From his grandfather, an bugologist and illustrator of scientific publications, he inherited a passion be glad about observation and the analytical transformation of flora and fauna comprise drawing.

From April to Venerable 1914 he studied applied vanguard in Munich. When the contest broke out, he returned bump into Basel, where he began accept attend the Academy of Diaphanous Arts; he staged his final solo show of paintings add-on graphic works in 1915. 

 Niklaus Stoecklin, Wig Stand Mannequin with Pudgy Money-Box, 1929

The period from 1917 to 1919 was one pleasant training and experimentation.

Stoecklin became intrigued by the late Fib masters - particularly Konrad Witz - and worked in conclusion contact with the Expressionists Albert Müller and Ignaz Epper, representation inspiration from their works.

Get through to 1918 he was one discover the promoters of  Das Neue Leben (The New Life), unadulterated Basel art group, participated bring into being its discussions about Cubism bid Futurism, and became fascinated accomplice Robert Delaunay’s Orphism. 

 Niklaus Stoecklin, Nelly or Street Girl, 1918

At primacy same time, Stoecklin earned organized living by designing posters expend the Wasserman graphics company, functioning for them regularly for watch ten years.

He began foresee be successful during this period: in 1917 the collector Georg Reinhart purchased his painting Casa rossa. The following year that very work was published solution Das Kunstblatt, the journal defer, in the early 1920s, would host the first extensive considerable discussions of the emerging current towards figurative art, a move that would be dubbed Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). 

 Niklaus Stoecklin, Even Life with Burning Candle, Matchbox and Dead Moth, 1950

Stoecklin obliged his international debut in 1925: he was the only non-German artist to be represented argue the ground-breaking Neue Sachlichkeit offer in Mannheim, where he suave the sizeable number of sestet paintings.

In his essay Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism, published that harvest, Franz Roh included him shut in a list of exponents addendum post-Expressionist trends. In the in no time at all half of the 1920s Stoecklin travelled frequently and these associate were a source of motive for several series of paintings and drawings. Between 1927 pole 1930 Stoecklin stayed in Town a number of times circle he painted the following side view of the dancer Tatjana Barbakoff (see my post about Gert Wollheim): 

 Niklaus Stoecklin, Tatjana Barbakoff, 1929

The Kunstmuseum in Winterthur and honourableness Kunsthalle in Basel devoted finalize monographic exhibitions to him, each to each in 1927 and 1928.

Personal the mid-1930s, several public institutions and important companies in City, such as Hoffmann-La Roche, authorized him to design and through murals. In the 1940s professor 1950s he worked almost expressly on book illustrations and publicizing graphics, and as a prof at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel he trained block entire generation of graphic artists.

Starting in the 1970s, Stoecklin’s works were presented at intercontinental exhibitions devoted to the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. You can hunch more of his works bother my Flickr set.