Fritz Glarner (1899-1972)

Professions: Painter

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  Relational Painting Nr. 55, 1951

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  Relational painting II/81, 1957

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  Fritz Glarner , 1899-1972 Relational Painting 1953, #65 Oil on canvas in artist's frame

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  FRITZ GLARNER 1899-1972

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Fritz Glarner Biography

(b Zurich, 20 July 1899; d Locarno, 18 Sept 1972). American painter of Swiss birth. Brought up in France and Italy, he studied at the Regio Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples from 1914 to 1920. Three years later he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Colarossi intermittently between 1924 and 1926 and became acquainted with modernist artists, including Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Alexander Calder, Theo van Doesburg, Jean Hélion, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and Georges Vantongerloo. During the late 1920s and 1930s Glarner’s work consisted largely of semi-abstract still-lifes and interior scenes such as Painting (1937; Zurich, Ksthaus), in which flat, hard-edged areas of colour are used to indicate the simplified forms of a table in the corner of a room. Although right angles predominate, a limited number of diagonal edges and overlapping forms serve to establish a sense of spatial recession and indicate the naturalistic origin of the imagery.

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