René Gilsi

René Gilsi ( born May 31, 1905 in St. Gallen, † January 20, 2002 ) was a Swiss graphic artist, painter and caricaturist.

He was the son of the painter and engraver Fritz Gilsi ( 1878-1961 ). He attended a grammar school during his school days in St. Gallen. Even then his great aversion to mathematics and languages ​​showed. Rather, it was interested in his childhood for drawing, and so he made after his graduation a flat painting apprenticeship. At twenty, he went to Paris for a year. He then worked as a draftsman of political cartoons in the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter.

René Gilsi spent some time in Vienna and worked as a graphic artist and caricaturist in Zurich and St. Gallen. Soon he also began to write lyrics and verses to his own drawings. For example, in 1950 he published his book uncle Ferdinand and the pedagogy and 1964 Sometimes stimmts. In recent years, he turned to painting and produced many artistic works.