Charles Rollier
Charles Rollier ( born September 27, 1912 in Milan, † May 15, 1968 in Geneva) was a Swiss artist of Italian origin. He is often referred to as the representative of informal painting, but found his own personal style.
Life
Charles Rollier was born in 1912 in a Waldensian family in Milan. His father was an industrialist. His artistic education began in 1930 at the Art Academy of Brera in Milan.
In the spring of 1938 Rolling fled from the Italian fascism and moved to Basel in Switzerland. There he met Georg Schmidt, head of the Basel art house, know, who introduced him to other Basel painters, including Ernst Stocker ( Coghuf called ).
Between 1938 and 1940 he lived in Paris and became friends with the painter Gustav Bolin, whom he followed to Mirmande in the Drôme (France ) to escape the German occupation. There he met ( called Sacha ), with which he will always remain in contact Alexandre Garbell.
1941 feared his father the danger of war and Rollier returned back to Switzerland and moved to Geneva. He frequently visited the frequented by artists and intellectuals cafes and became friends with Alberto Giacometti and Roger Montandon. In La Clemence, one of these cafes, he presented Giacometti Annette Arm, who married him in 1943. Rollier married Alice Vincent, with whom he remained together for only two years, from 1942 to 1945.
In 1946, Rolling for the first time in Geneva, along with Arnold Arti, in the gallery Georges Moos. Although the sale was difficult, he has been recognized by well-known artists such as Tristan Tzara or Constant Rey- Millet, and met the art critic Pierre Courthion, who was a good friend and great admirer of his work. He went back to Paris in May, visited Montparnasse, Saint- Germain -des- Prés and its cafes (Les Deux Magots, Le Flore, Le Dôme) and met Montandon, Giacometti, Tzara, Bolin and Garbell again. He also learned painters of the so-called new school of Paris know, especially Jean Bazaine, Charles Lapicque and Nicolas de Staël. With the latter, a close friendship developed. On October 5, 1946 married Gisèle Rolling Bachmann. At the time he was very interested in the work of Pierre Tal Coat. This worked on a "return to the people " by prehistoric art.
From 1948 Rolling participated in Paris for three consecutive years at the Salon de Mai. Until 1952 he lived between Geneva and Paris, and spent his summer in Torre Pellice (Piedmont), where the family home stands. In Paris he saw regularly Courthion and de Staël, Hans Hartung learned, Raoul Dufy, know the sculptor Francisco Nino China, the painter Marie Raymond. He was of the Galerie du Siècle (Paris) and issued in the helmet house ( Zurich ) for the artist community " Reveil ". He studied Husserl 's phenomenology and the production of Byzantine culture.
In 1952, Rolling finally moved to Geneva, where he, from then on, lived with his wife and two children. He set up his studio in the vicinity of his home in Chêne -Bourg, where he created most of his work. He has participated in numerous exhibitions ( in Switzerland, in France, in Italy, the UK, Germany, Denmark and Japan) and showed great interest in various philosophical and religious traditions, such as the Zen thought, Buddhism, Sufism, the Shaktism, the romantic mysticism of Hölderlin, the Christian mystics and also for the artistic oriental traditions, such as Indian and Chinese art ( Lobue 1984, 1985).
From 1955 found burnishing its own picturesque language. For the Swiss art of the 20th century, the National Exhibition of 1964, he created the poster. He exhibited there three of his works. He is seen as one of the most important artists of the development of the century Swiss art.
Its production ended on May 15, 1968, when he succumbed to a heart attack.