Oskar Dalvit
Born in 1911.
Died in 1975.
From 1925 to 1929 he trained as an apprentice with a sign painter in Zürich, then continued his training as a graphic designer at the Orell Füssli company. In 1936 he left a position as an advertising graphic designer to work as an independent painter. From 1970 onwards, he worked mainly on wood reliefs.
Among his publications is Ein Lebensbuch, an edition of 23 polychrome woodcuts published in Zürich in 1941.
His career included presentations abroad: the 1948 dossier mentions The London Gallery (London), the Galerie d’Art moderne (Basel) and the Galerie Chichio Haller (Zürich). In 1951 he exhibited at the Galerie Dietrich in Brussels and the Galerie Salto in Milan. Presentations at the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), the Art Museum (Michigan) and The Arts Club of Chicago are recorded for 1952.
According to the source L'UOVO DI LUC, he was signed by the art dealer Karl Nierendorf in 1947.
Sources indicate that in his final years he worked almost exclusively on wood reliefs.
The dossier points to a technical evolution, from the illustrated woodcuts in the edition Ein Lebensbuch (1941) to the practice of wood reliefs developed from 1970 onwards.
