Niklaus Stoecklin (19 April 1896 – 1 December 1982) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist was born in Basel as the son of businessman Johann Niklaus Stoecklin (1859–1923). Stoecklin grew up in Basel, but in 1914 went to Munich to study under Robert Engels at the School of Arts and Crafts. It was there that his friendship with the sculptor Alexander Zschokke began.
At the outbreak of war, Stoecklin returned to Switzerland and took courses at Basel School of Arts and Crafts, where his teachers included Burkhard Mangold. He spent his period of active military service in the Canton of Ticino. There he painted his Casa Rossa (1917), a masterpiece of New Objectivity that was sold just a few months later, in 1918. The buyer was Georg Reinhart, an entrepreneur of Winterthur who became the Stoecklin’s first and most important collector, and a lifelong friend. In 1918 Stoecklin, was one of the founding members, alongside Zschokke, Fritz Baumann and Otto Morach, of the artist group Das Neue Leben. Ignaz Epper was another artist to whom he had contact at the time. 1920 saw Stoecklin and Albert Müller sharing a studio in San Gimignano in Tuscany.
Stoecklin was the only Swiss artist to be included in the seminal exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit. Deutsche Malerei seit dem Expressionismus curated by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub at Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1925. This was the show from which the New Objectivity of the 1920s and 1930s derived its name.
For many decades Stoecklin was also active as a poster designer. Some of his works in this genre were for competitions organized by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt. His public works, including his fresco above the public notice board for posting marriage banns on the Münsterplatz in Basel (1920) made him a well-known figure in Basel, as did his involvement in the painting of lanterns for the Basler Fasnacht. He also designed somel postage stamps for the Schweizer Post and illustrated the Schweizerfibel.
For earlier works see parts 1 - 3 also. This is part 4 of a 4-part series on the works of Niklaus Stoecklin:
1958 The little Rabbit
watercolour over pen on paper 31.8 x 44.5 cm1958 Altstadtgasse in Basel
pencil & watercolour on paper 27 x 17.5 cm1960 White garden chair with geraniums in a clay pot
oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm1960 Vor Paris
oil on hardboard 24 x 33 cm1961 Clifden Nonpareil moth
oil on hardboard 22 x 27 cm1963 Sail butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius)
oil on hardboard 24 x 30 cm1963 Notre-Dame, Paris
watercolour on paper 25 x 34 cm1963 Bell meat company
colour lithograph poster 128 x 90 cm1964 Still Life
oil on canvas 46 x 33 cm1965 View out of the studio (Southern France)
pencil and watercolour on paper 29 x 22.5 cm1966 Niklaus Stoecklin poster exhibition,
Gewerbe Museum, Basel
colour lithograph poster 128 x 90 cm1966 Flower study
watercolour on paper 28 x 17 cm1966 Carnation in a vase
watercolour and gouache on paper 19 x 15 cm1967 Mümsterberg, Basel
oil on panel 40.5 x 57.5 cm1968 Church of Grosshüningen
oil on hardboard 29 x 32 cm1970 Still Life with Cherries
oil on chipboard 23.5 x 28.3 cm1970 Still Life with rose and book
oil on painting board 33.5 x 27 cm1971 Flowers in a pitcher
oil on canvas mounted on board 22 x 19 cm1971 Gate of Spalen, Basel
colour lithograph 128 x 90 cm1972 Praying Mantis
watercolour on paper 9.5 x 16.5 cm1973 Still Life with Mandarin
oil on painting board 15.5 x 20.2 cm1977 Pasque flower
watercolour on paper 20 x 14.5 cm
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| Architecture study watercolour & gouache on cardboard 16 x 22 cm |
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| Architecture study watercolour & gouache on cardboard 15.5 x 16 cm |
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| Boccalino with Flowers colour lithograph 45 x 38.5 cm |
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| Bi-oro Sonneschutz sun cream colour lithograph poster 127 x 90 cm |
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| Christmas Presents ink and watercolour on paper 21.5 x 15.5 cm |
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| Camellia in a ceramic jug oil on wood panel 25 x 20 cm |
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| The Saint (medium not given) 44 x 37.5 cm |
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| Fisherman on the Rhine oil on cardboard 17 x 22 cm |
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| Golden Star Inn colour lithograph 25.5 33.5 cm |
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| Passion Flower watercolour on paper 15 x 12 cm |
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| Parisian Window (details not found) |
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| Quai Kronstadt, Toulon - The Spy (details not found) |
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| Restaurant in Hasenburg colour lithograph 49 x 65 cm |
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| Studio window with a view of Basel gouache on canvas on painting board 42.5 x 27.5 cm |
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| Still Life colour lithograph 14.5 x 17.5 cm |
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| Three roses with coral oil on fibreboard 34.5 x 27.6 cm |
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| The lonely one oil on board. 26.5 x 34.5 cm |
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| Walnut watercolour over pencil on paper 11.5 x 9.5 cm |
