Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini

Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini ( born January 10, 1881 in Basel; † August 5, 1958 ) was a Swiss painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was next to Heinrich Altherr, Paul and Walter Bodmer Clénin the most employ muralists of Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Pellegrini was born as the son of Isidoro stone sculptor Pellegrini. After high school he studied at the Basel trade school at Fritz Schider and Albrecht car. He also worked in the directed, by his older brother, paternal sculptor business. From 1899 to 1901 he attended as a student of Gabriel von Hackl the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In Stuttgart, he worked 1906-1908, first as an illustrator and commercial artist and was a member of the Munich Secession in 1906. In the years 1908-1912 he took lessons with Adolf Hölzel at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. From 1914 to 1917 Pellegrini stayed in Munich and became a member of the New Artists ' Association of Munich. In 1917 he returned to Basel. In 1948 he was awarded the art prize of the city of Basel.

Work

Pellegrini was influenced by Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch. His works include panel paintings and frescoes, also portraits, landscapes and figure paintings. Through his friendship with the architect Theodor Fischer granted him orders for murals, so in 1909 a mural for the Church in Kirchheim unter Teck. After incurred in the course of a competition designs Pellegrini painted for the church of St. James in 1917, completed fresco showing the stone's throw of the Arnold Schick in the battle of 1444. Pellegrini designed within its large period of decorative wall painting, within the following generation on Hodler, among others 1922 mural on the Basel Stock Exchange and 1941, the large mural, Apollo and the Muses, to the front of the Municipal Casino Basel.