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Carl Walter Liner | |
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 Liner in his Appenzell studio, c. 1955 | |
| Born | 17 August 1914 St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Died | 19 April 1997 (aged 82) Appenzell, Switzerland |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Father | Carl August Liner |
Carl Walter Liner (17 August 1914 – 19 April 1997) was a Swiss painter. He trained first with his father, Carl August Liner, and later at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. His work included landscapes, portraits and still lifes, and later developed toward abstraction and non-representational painting.
Biography
[edit]Carl Walter Liner was born on 17 August 1914 in St. Gallen,[1] and grew up in Appenzell.[2] He was the son of the painter Carl August Liner, who gave him his early artistic training.[1][2] After beginning but not completing a graphic-arts apprenticeship in Aarau in 1930, he continued his training with his father in Appenzell.[1][2]
In the late 1930s, Liner spent time studying abroad, including in Egypt, Italy and France.[1] During his stay in Paris, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière,[1] where he studied under Othon Friesz.[2] His Paris period exposed him to French modernism.[1][2] He returned to Switzerland in 1939 and performed active service until 1944.[2] In 1944, he moved to Zürich and married Käthi Rüf.[1][2]
From 1954, Liner divided his career between Appenzell, Paris and southern France.[1][2] He received the Prix du bimillénaire of the city of Arles in 1983 and the cultural prize of the Stiftung Pro Innerrhoden in 1984.[1][2] In 1996, he was made an honorary citizen of Fontvieille in Provence.[2] Liner died in Appenzell on 19 April 1997.[1][2]
Work
[edit]Liner painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes.[1] His landscape painting included late Impressionist approaches and Expressionism influenced by Fauvism.[3] From the late 1940s, he moved away from the Impressionism associated with his father and turned toward Expressionism and abstract painting, including influences from the Zürich Concrete artists.[1] In the early 1950s, some of his works moved gradually away from recognisable subjects, although he continued to paint landscapes.[2]
His later work drew on postwar artistic developments of the 1950s and 1960s.[4] Liner’s work has been associated with the development of non-representational art in Switzerland, particularly through its connection between landscape and abstraction.[2][3] By the time of his death, he had produced around 2,500 oil paintings and 4,000 gouaches.[4]
Exhibitions
[edit]Liner exhibited regularly in Switzerland and abroad during his later career. From 1962 to 1967, he participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris.[2] In Switzerland, his work was shown at Galerie Iris Wazzau in Davos.[2] In 2014, the centenary exhibition Pendler zwischen den Welten was shown at the Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte in Appenzell.[4]
Gallery
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Hottingerstrasse im Winter, Zürich, 1944
Komposition Rot, Blau, Gelb, Ocker, Weiss, 1959
Cover image by Liner for Innerrhoder Liederbuch, 1968
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Bischofberger, Hermann (18 September 2008). "Carl Walter Liner". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Rutka, Georges (2017). "Carl Liner (junior)". SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Carl Walter Liner (1914-1997)". Die Mobiliar (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 Breu, Michael (8 April 2014). "Ostschweiz - «Pendler zwischen den Welten»". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2026.
External links
[edit]- "Carl Walter Liner". BnF Catalogue général. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
