Michael Grossert

Alois Josef Michael Grossert ("Michael") (Sursee, 31 January 1927) is a Swiss sculptor.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] == From 1943 to 1946 Grossert followed an apprenticeship as a Carpenter and visited in 1948 the arts and crafts school in Luzern. From 1949 to 1953, he worked in the Studio of the stone sculptor Albert Schilling in Arlesheim and followed courses at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel. In 1953 his first exhibition in the Grossert got Art museum Luzern in Lucerne. In the same year he moved to Basel. From 1955 to 1960 he was an art teacher at a high school in Sursee and from 1960 to 1966 to a gymnasium inAarau.
 * 2 works (selection)
 * 3 Photo Gallery
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Grossert got in 1952 and in 1955 the Förderpreis der Swiss Federal Institute of Kunstkom mission. In 1958, he was invited for the important Plastikausstellung Biel 1958 and in 1960 he took part in the second Symposium Europäischer Bildhauer for stone sculpture by Karl Prantl in the Austrian Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland. In 1966 he got some stipends and moved with his family to Paris. He took part in several group exhibitions, such as the Salon de Mai, the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture Salon des Réalités Nouvellesand the. He discovered plastic as a material for his sculptures, which he painted. He made spatial images groups, the Polychrome Polyester landscapes, such asZone Infinie and Lieu dit.

He exhibited in France and in Switzerland. In 1990 burned his Parisian workshop and lost nearly all his work went. In 1993, the Prix de la Sculpture Grossert of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist now lives in Basel. ==Works (selection)[ Edit] ==
 * Composition 1957 C7 (1957), Plastikausstellung 1958 in Biel
 * Without title (1960), Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland
 * Transformateur polychrome (1966)
 * Zone Infinie (1968)
 * Skulpturenhof (1973), primary school Aumatt in Reinach (Aargau)
 * Lieu dit (1975), am Heuwagen in Basel
 * Brunnen (1987/88), square in front of the Stadthalle in Sursee