Walter Linck

Swiss sculptor Walter Linck was the son of painter Ernst Linck. From 1916-1920 he received his education at the Bern trade school and at the School of Applied Arts in Zürich, studying metalwork. From 1921-26 Linck studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, there studying sculpture. He moved in 1928 to Paris and worked as a figure and portrait sculptor, staying until 1932. Through 1939 he lived and worked alternately in Paris and Bern. In 1940 he returned to Switzerland for good and eventually settled in Reichenbach near Bern in 1941.

In 1943 Linck destroyed most of his work in the previous classical, plastic representation and at that time began to use only metals. He created wire sculptures and structures made of elastic steel bands. In 1956 Linck became a professor in Kassel for a year and participated in documenta 2 in 1959. During the 1960s and 1970s he created numerous large-scale steel sculptures. Copies of his bronze figure of Don Quixote created in 1943/44 can be found in the Art Museum Glarus and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. The 55 cm high figure shows a symbolic, surrealistic representation.