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Gottfried Tritten was born in Lenk in 1923 and grew up in the Bernese Oberland. After grammar school in Burgdorf, he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule [school of arts and crafts] in Basel between 1943 and 1948. He then studied art history, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Basel and Bern until 1951, before training as a teacher in Thun. He began his professional career teaching art, mainly in Thun and Bern, and wrote several works on art education, which became standard works. In 1955 he moved to Oberhofen am Thunersee [Oberhofen on Lake Thun]. He started to show his works abroad in 1967, and also had numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, including a retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Thun in 1974. Between 1968 and 1984 he was a teacher at the Centre de Formation du Corps Enseignant Secondaire [Secondary Teacher Training Centre] at the University of Bern. In 1977, he moved to Grimisuat in the canton of Valais. Tritten received numerous awards and scholarships, such as the Eidgenössisches Stipendium für angewandte Kunst [Swiss Federal Scholarship for Applied Arts] (1953), the Grosser Kulturpreis [Grand Culture Prize] of the city of Thun (1986), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (1985). Tritten died in 2015.
Gottfried Tritten was born in Lenk in 1923 and grew up in the Bernese Oberland. After grammar school in Burgdorf, he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule [school of arts and crafts] in Basel between 1943 and 1948. He then studied art history, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Basel and Bern until 1951, before training as a teacher in Thun. He began his professional career teaching art, mainly in Thun and Bern, and wrote several works on art education, which became standard works. In 1955 he moved to Oberhofen am Thunersee [Oberhofen on Lake Thun]. He started to show his works abroad in 1967, and also had numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, including a retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Thun in 1974. Between 1968 and 1984 he was a teacher at the Centre de Formation du Corps Enseignant Secondaire [Secondary Teacher Training Centre] at the University of Bern. In 1977, he moved to Grimisuat in the canton of Valais. Tritten received numerous awards and scholarships, such as the Eidgenössisches Stipendium für angewandte Kunst [Swiss Federal Scholarship for Applied Arts] (1953), the Grosser Kulturpreis [Grand Culture Prize] of the city of Thun (1986), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (1985). Tritten died in 2015.
