Paul Bodmer

Paul Bodmer (18 August 1886 – 19 December 1983) was a Swiss painter and muralist associated with the circle around Otto Meyer-Amden. He is best known for the series of frescoes he painted in the cloister of the Fraumünster in Zürich between 1924 and 1941.

Biography Paul Bodmer was born in Zürich on 18 August 1886. He grew up in Zürich and attended the Gewerbeschule and Kunstgewerbeschule before completing an apprenticeship as a theatre painter between 1903 and 1906.

From 1907 to 1910, Bodmer worked as a theatre painter in Berlin, Düsseldorf and other German cities. During this period, he undertook a study trip to the artists' colony at Worpswede. He returned to Switzerland in 1910 and began working as a freelance artist. He married Emma Rauch in 1915 and taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich from 1917 to 1923. Bodmer and Otto Baumberger won the competition for the project in 1921, although Bodmer was later selected to execute the frescoes alone.