Paul Bodmer

Paul Bodmer ( born August 18, 1886 in Zurich, † December 19, 1983 ) was a Swiss stage and muralist of modernity.

Career

Bodmer first worked in Germany after an apprenticeship as a scene painter. Since 1910, he worked in Switzerland. He is best known for his murals and frescoes. Several pictures aroused public uproar and had to be re- painted, his abstract paintings at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich and in the schoolhouse Latvians. Today to see are his frescoes in the cloister of the cathedral wife, which he created from 1924 to 1934. Make the legends surrounding the founding of the woman Münster Abbey dar. Bodmer made ​​a major contribution to the renewal of the reformed religious painting in Switzerland.

In the parish hall of Zollikon Bodmer painted the walls of the meeting room 1941-1945 with frescoes. A part shows the Zolliker conscripts in 1476 before the Battle of Murten in Zollikon besammeln itself, the other part is the donation of a Zolliker Rebberges Mechthild, the abbess of the Fraumünster in 1145th