Hermann Haller
Born in 1880.
Died in 1950.
Hermann Haller (born 24 December 1880 in Bern, died 23 November 1950 in Zurich) was a sculptor whose work is distinguished by a pronounced concentration on the human figure, particularly the female nude and the bust portrait (f1, f8).
The documented corpus reveals a practice in which modelling plays a central role: modelling appears here as a privileged medium for rendering flesh and volumes, and the artist’s output occasionally includes life-size nudes (f8). The available documents also point to a recurring tension between the sexes as a thematic thread running through his sculptures (f8).
On the international stage, Haller represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1934 alongside Cuno Amiet (f12). Later, in 1949, he took part, together with Jakob Probst, in the third international sculpture exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (f14).
The artist’s studio is.
These biographical and documentary elements — dates of birth and death, thematic emphases centred on the nude and the bust, the importance of modelling, participation in international events, and the donation of the studio to the City of Zurich — make it possible to sketch the profile of an artist whose attention to modelling and the representation of the body constitutes the most consistently attested constant in the sources brought together here (f1, f8, f12, f14, f10).
