Sigg

We were six children. I spent my happy childhood on my parent’s farm in Oberhasli, a small village near Zurich, Switzerland (and) till my father decided that I have to inherit the farm and I have to be a farmer as I said, No. I would be artist. It was a tragedy for my father. In his eyes I was a traitor on the holy grounds. In their time it was a disgrace for a farmer to have a son as artist.

I studied at the School of Applied Art in Zurich and afterwards at the Academe Andre Lhote in Paris.

Now I’m seventy-eight, and I live with my wife again in this small village of Oberhasli. We built our house with two studios, and the Swiss writer Marc Schwitz was our advisor, because he was at first architect. I married with my wife Hilda for fifty-three years. We met at the Academe in Paris, 1947. She gives me the good art, and she is a great help, as well as our son Daniel and his wife Ellen. They live in New York. I would say we four, thinking in a similar way, and we are a good thing. Good (laughter).

I am not a city man. I need nature. I need our large garden with big trees, with the leaves, their different forms and colors. The smell of grass, of blossoms and flowers. I think I am more a kind a Zen priest in his garden. The way of my working-- I believe that in silence, in the meditation there lies an energy, a radiant power.

Herman A. Sigg. Painter. Oberhasli, Switzerland. Studied at School of Applied Art, Zurich, and Academie Andre Lhote, Paris. Mr. Sigg exhibits internationally, including a 2002 twelve city tour in the USA. Among his many collectors are Gerling Insurance Collection, Germany; Swissair Collection, Zurich; the Museums of Art in Allergeiligen, Chur, Olten, Colothurn, and Thun, and the Swiss Fed. Govt. Collection.