Father and daughter Jacques Schedler + Cornelia Schedler

Jacques Schedler (1927-1989) Jacques Schedler was born in Bürglen in 1927. Apprenticeship as a flat painter. In the winter months he attended the School of Applied Arts in St. Gallen. In 1949/1950, he spent time studying in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His teachers were Fernand Léger (1881-1955) and Johnny Friedlaender (1912-1992). Schedler settled in Warth TG in 1960. Between 1974 and 1976, he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for the "Nebelspalter" and various newspapers. He also created works in public spaces, such as the "Stadtwächter" (city watchman) on the Gambrinus building in Frauenfeld, created in 1982, and windows in several churches in Thurgau and the canton of Zurich. Cornelia Schedler Her copperplate printing studio has been located at Grabenstrasse 29 in Frauenfeld for over 30 years. Always fascinated by artistic printing techniques, she encountered copper plates, burins, masking varnish and acid baths in her early youth: at her father's house. Jacques Schedler had learned etching in an artist's workshop in Paris. The young students were inspired by Pablo Picasso, who regularly came there to etch. Cornelia Schedler was also inspired by her uncle Bruno Stamm, who taught intaglio printing at the former Zurich School of Applied Arts for 34 years. After his death, she was able to take over his small private print shop at the end of the 1980s. She works with traditional intaglio printing techniques such as aquatint, vernis mou, line etching and drypoint, as well as with techniques she has developed herself on recycled material (Tetrapak). In contrast to the classic art of etching, she rarely prints editions for herself. She mainly creates unique prints, of which variations, as well as drawings, paper and textile objects. Source: