A Hidden Art Treasure in the Zurich Oberland. Estate from the Paris studio of the sculptor Morice Lipsi, 1898 Pabianice (Poland) - 1986 Küsnacht-Goldbach and his wife, the painter Hildegard Weber-Lipsi, 1901 Wädenswil - 2000 Küsnacht-Goldbach.
More than half a century beginning in 1912 with the classical modernism in La Ruche, Montparnasse, as colleagues of Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine, Zadkine, Laurens and Sonja Delaunay to the abstraction after the 2nd World War and the culmination of the work of Morice LipsiI as an internationally recognized masters of direct stone work. Large sculpture sin public spaces in Europe and Japan.
In addition to oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, the marionettes of Hildegard Weber-Lipsi, awarded a gold medal at the 1937 Paris World's Fair, are worth mentioning. It was planned to show these rod puppets at the 1939 National Exhibition in Zurich, prevented by the outbreak of the Second World War.
The visit to the collection will take 2 hours, guided if you like by Gabrielle Beck, the youngest daughter of the artist's Lipsi and Weber-Lipsi.
Of special interest for art students
