#Bruno Weber

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Bruno Weber was a master of crafting fantastical creatures, and there’s no greater example than the 220,000-square-foot sculpture garden bearing his name in his native Switzerland, visited by thousands each year. Inside this magical park, nestled in Spreitenbach and Dietikon, visitors can scale and interact with its inhabitants. Get a look inside the garden with photos from artist Angie Mason on HiFructose.com.

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The “Swiss Gaudí”

Sculpture and architecture scenes are usually dominated by a few, or, sometimes even one, regional artist, giving a unique identity to a city. Europe’s tourist-mecca, Barcelona is one of the best examples. The architect, Antoni Gaudí shaped the city in many ways. His organic approach to architecture made him a sculptor, designer and soon, perhaps, even a saint (his canonisation being under consideration).

While Zurich is shaped by more diverse artistic influences, we have recently discovered a sort of “Swiss Gaudí” here. His name was Bruno Weber. He was much more a sculptor, and is probably far yet, from canonisation. His characteristic clay-toned figures, featuring some rather fanciful animals, are found in many nearby places. For instance, when approaching the summit of Zurich’s resident “mountain” the Uetliberg, one is greeted by what can only be described as “man-moose-giraffe” lamps with large glowing globes on the antlers, flanking either side of the path (in rather large scale).

The best opportunity to compare and contrast the parallels between Weber and Gaudí, is the home of the former, Bruno Weber Park, which is now open to the public. 

It is filled with sculpted curiosities, large and small sculptures and a small (but not so simple) house. Whoever has seen Gaudí’s Park Güell cannot deny some the glaring, if not as fine, resemblances. Weber did not care about the limitations of his main building material — concrete. He moulded it into serpents which acted as a high passerelle around a water feature, unmountable tiny bridges and highly (over)detailed facades. This is also what seems to make restoration and upkeep of the property relatively tricky. The constant struggle is visible. And just like Gaudí, Weber decorated the surfaces with broken, colourful tiles. The park was a lifelong project for him that remained unfinished. 

It doesn’t have the glory of Park Güell, but it is definitely worth a stroll when viewed as a local curiosity rather than a world-renowned architectural highlight.

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L’artiste et son œuvre.

Bruno Weber parmi ses sculptures dans son parc. 

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Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss and Lara Stone by Bruce Weber for W Magazine

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Bruno Weber  /  CH

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...lose yourself or find yourself in Bruno Weber's Fantasy World!

(www.brunoweberpark.ch)

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Library building of the Vienna University of Technology, photo by Peter Haas 2012. The library was built in 1987. The sculptures are by Bruno Weber. The photo was picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons on 2014-03-03.

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@BrunoWeberPark in Dietikon Swizterland

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An enchanted forest in rural Switzerland...

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Unicorn sculptor runs to the great rainbows of the beyond

Oct 25, 2011 - 12:10

  Monster sculptor dies

The artist Bruno Weber, best-known for his monumental concrete sculptures of monsters, has died at the age of 80.

A representative of the Bruno Weber Foundation said he died at home on Monday, surrounded by his family.

Weber’s colourful dragons, snakes, birdmen and unicorns were designed to be a “visionary counterworld” to the “concrete deserts” of highways and factories. They were inspired by eastern mythology and European fables as well as by his own imagination.   They can be seen in the artist’s Sculpture Park on the outskirts of his home town of Dietikon, not far from Zurich.   Weber and his wife lived in a house in the park which they designed themselves and which is also built in fantasy style.   Weber was born and grew up in Dietikon and studied at art school in Zurich. He later continued his art education in Italy, Greece and what was then Czechoslovakia.   He trained as a graphic artist, but switched exclusively to painting for 25 years, in a style he called “fantastic realism”.   He started the sculpture park in the 1960s, at the same time as his house. He was working on the Water Garden in the park until the end of his life. It is due to be inaugurated shortly.

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Switzerland may be known for peaceful ways and Edelweiss, but today we remember this Swiss artist for his unicorn sculptures. Shown here in this video, Bruno Weber lived in a castle, dreamt of a waterpark, and created a fence made of gargantuan dogs.

The unicorns bow their heads in reverence at this man's great work. Or, more accurately, they lift their heads high so they can see the next tall work he was developing.

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Bruno Weber