451 - Fred Stauffer, New Objectivist Family Portrait, oil painting from 1927

Fred Stauffer, New Objectivist Family Portrait, oil painting from 1927 Friedrich Arnold Stauffer, 1892 Gümligen near Bern - 1980 Thörishaus, Swiss painter, draughtsman and graphic artist, here: Mother, Father and a Toddler, New Objectivist oil on canvas, 65 x 65 cm, signed and dated on the right (19)27 About the artist: Fred Stauffer grew up in Gümligen and Bern. From 1914, he attended Walter Georgi’s drawing class at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Art. From 1915 to 1916, he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Art under Franz von Stuck. His first major exhibition was his participation in the annual exhibition of the GSMBA (Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors) in 1919 at the Kunsthaus Zürich. In 1925, Fred Stauffer exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bern alongside Giovanni Giacometti, Victor Surbek, Eugen Zeller and Carl Angst, and in 1926 at the Glaspalast in Munich. Also in 1926, he took part in the Venice Biennale. In the years that followed, Fred Stauffer exhibited at all the major museums in Switzerland, for example at the Kunsthalle Basel (1938), the Kunstmuseum Luzern (1939) and the Kunstmuseum Bern (1944 and 1951). In 1952 and 1962, Fred Stauffer held solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern. Even after his death, his works continued to be exhibited regularly. To mark what has so far been his most comprehensive exhibition at the Fondation Saner in Studen near Biel, a new monograph by Anna M. Schafroth was published in 2007.