Bernhard Luginbühl, a well-respected Swiss sculptor, has died just a few days after his 82nd birthday.
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His work featured a variety of materials, including iron, bones, wood and even weapons and industrial waste.
“Every little thing has meaning for me,” said Luginbühl on the occasion of his 2003 exhibition at Museum Tinguely in Basel.
A park in Bern showcases about 60 of his enormous rusty creations, including animal figures.
In addition to sculpture, Luginbühl also produced graphic design, lyric poetry and more fleeting works such as burning things in public as a form of protest.
The son of a butcher, the Bern-born Luginbühl remained very down-to-earth despite the critical acclaim he received.
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Fifty-nine pieces are exhibited in the Mötschwil sculpture park near Bern. Almost as intriguing as these sculptures are the enormous quantities of scrap metal on display – including 150 ploughs, an entire airplane wing, and piles of rusty chain. These are the bones of future sculptures. Hans Christoph von Tavel, former director of Bern’s fine…
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His work featured a variety of materials, including iron, bones, wood and even weapons and industrial waste. In addition to sculpture, Luginbühl also produced graphic design, lyric poetry and more fleeting works such as burning things in public as a form of protest. About 60 of his works are on display in a park in…
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Sculptor Bernhard Luginbühl has created a park in Mötschwil, canton Bern, that is open to the public every second Sunday of the month from April to October. It’s there amid abundant greenery that he has planted his rusty sculptures. (Pictures: Karen Cordes, swissinfo.ch)
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