- Ernst Linck
Ernst Linck (
October 14 ,1874 –June 29 ,1935 ) was a Swiss painter.Baumgartner, M.: " [http://www.sikart.ch/artikel%5C4025790.pdf Linck, Ernst] ", 1998. In German. URL last accessed2007-12-20 .]Born in
Windisch , he became adecorator (apprenticeship inZürich from 1889 to 1890) and then worked in several Swiss cities as a statue painter. After two study trips toItaly in 1894 and in 1899 he settled atBerne , where he opened a school of painting that he carried on until 1912. From 1904 on, he also taught figure drawing at the local school of art.Originally a
Jugendstil painter, Linck became heavily influenced in Berne by the work ofFerdinand Hodler . His paintings frequently depicted patriotic-pastoral settings.Linck also created several works of ecclesiastic painting (murals, but also painted glass windows). He was contracted frequently as a restorer; he was responsible for the ornamental painting of the figures on the historic fountains in the town centre of Berne.
His son
Walter Linck became a well-knownsculptor .References
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