Hermi Breitenmoser
April 21, 2006 – May 27, 2006
Hermi Breitenmoser, born 1922, defied suspiciously commercialisation and publicity and stood aside the official art scene. He protected carefully his work, which may be characterised as of raw and genius spirit.
The paintings reveal a quick and powerful stroke and the motives of local landscapes in subtle colours or of dark men and figures stand in tense relationship to each other. Pygmalion or Medusa are not to be taken as intellectual referencing but as an original urge to express his inner world. The work he has left is of potent and unspoiled language.
Hermi Breitenmoser lived and worked as a craftsman in Wil, Switzerland and was a member of the local society ‘Hofgesellschaft’, which gathered regularly to discuss various subjects of art, music and theatre. He was an autodidact in painting and died 2004.
The paintings reveal a quick and powerful stroke and the motives of local landscapes in subtle colours or of dark men and figures stand in tense relationship to each other. Pygmalion or Medusa are not to be taken as intellectual referencing but as an original urge to express his inner world. The work he has left is of potent and unspoiled language.
Hermi Breitenmoser lived and worked as a craftsman in Wil, Switzerland and was a member of the local society ‘Hofgesellschaft’, which gathered regularly to discuss various subjects of art, music and theatre. He was an autodidact in painting and died 2004.
