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Artists from A-Z Otto Staiger

1894–1967
  • Val d'Anniviers I (1958)
    Val d'Anniviers I
    Artist: Otto Staiger Dating: 1958 Type: Work on paper Material: Watercolor on paper Measures: 25 x 32,9 cm Acces / purchase date: 1960 Inventory number: 0384 Copyright: © Nachlass Otto Staiger; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Atelierfenster (1957)
    Atelierfenster
    Artist: Otto Staiger Dating: 1957 Type: Work on paper Material: Watercolor on paper Measures: 23,5 x 30,8 cm Acces / purchase date: 1960 Inventory number: 0383 Copyright: © Nachlass Otto Staiger; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Souvenir d'Italie [Souvenir of Italy] (1934)
    Souvenir d'Italie [Souvenir of Italy]
    Artist: Otto Staiger Dating: 1934 Type: Painting Material: Tempera on canvas Measures: 70 x 95 cm Acces / purchase date: 1960 Inventory number: 0381 Copyright: © Nachlass Otto Staiger; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
Staiger's art is strongly influenced by his training as a glass painter from the very beginning. Clarity and simplicity of expression and form prevail throughout his work. In Geneva, Staiger turned away from dark-toned painting. During the red-blue period the colours become more intense, the forms more austere. Woodcuts, watercolours, oil paintings and glass paintings emerge. Staiger never aimed for an illusionistic imitation of nature. His works are characterised by two-dimensionality, reduction to the essential with a tendency towards geometrisation and stylisation as well as monumentality and static figures. From the mid-1940s onwards, he hardly ever painted in oils. While the glass paintings from the 1950s onwards also feature non-representational compositions, the watercolours are always object-bound.

Simone Thalmann: "Otto Staiger". In: SIKART Dictionary of Art in Switzerland, 2019