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Somm, Peter

* 23.02.1940 Sulgen

Peter Somm was born in Sulgen in 1940. He studied medicine in Fribourg, Vienna and Zurich and then trained as an anaesthetist in Münsterlingen, Berlin, Zurich and St. Gallen. He practised as an anaesthetist until 1999.

Painting has always been a part of his life since he first began his studies. He attended painting courses in Berlin and Switzerland and trained as an autodidact. From 1958 to 1969 Somm created an extensive body of early work. However, he made no effort to exhibit these works, instead delving into the oeuvre of Paul Klee and Johannes Itten. He concentrated on developing a style of his own, characterised by a layered structural principle in continuous colour gradations and rectilinear bands, in a black-grey-white palette.

In 1969, as part of the annual winter exhibition at the Helmhaus in Zurich, one of his acrylic paintings was accepted by the first-class jury headed by Max Bill, which enabled him to enter the art scene. In his circular paintings, which he began in 1971 and which were made to rotate, colour became increasingly important to Somm. The colour began to glow and vibrate, qualities that the artist pushed to an ever-greater intensity over the years and made the goal in each of his works. Somm's light pictures are usually based on three personal pictorial motifs: the cross, the circle and the horizon.

In 1972 Peter Somm settled with his wife and three children in Herrenschwanden, where he still lives and works today.




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Lot 3476 - A195 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 05 December 2020, 02.30 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 1979.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated, numbered and the artist's date of birth and location: Somm 1979 Werk Nr 175 PETER SOMM*23/2/1940 à Sulgen-Thurgovie.
101 × 100 cm.

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Lot 3468 - A185 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 30 June 2018, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Gelbes Kreuz. 1979.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse: Somm 1979 Werk Nr. 172 "Gelbes Kreuz".
160 x 160 cm.

CHF 2 500 / 3 500 | (€ 2 580 / 3 610)

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Lot 3458 - A189 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 29 June 2019, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 2011.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated and with the work number on the reverse: Somm 2011 Werk Nr. 1045, as well as signed and dated on the stretcher: P. Somm 2011.
110 x 110 cm.

CHF 3 000 / 5 000 | (€ 3 090 / 5 150)

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Lot 3455 - A187 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 08 December 2018, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Yin and Yang. 2011.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated on the reverse: Somm 2011, as well as with the work number: Werk Nr. 1046.
80 x 80 cm.

CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)

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Lot 3454 - A187 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 08 December 2018, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 2001.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated and with the work number on the reverse, as well as on the stretcher: Somm 2001 Werk Nr. 838.
60 x 60 cm.

CHF 1 500 / 2 000 | (€ 1 550 / 2 060)

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Lot 3464 - A191 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 07 December 2019, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 1980.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated and with the work number on the reverse: Somm 1980 Werk-Nr. 237.
60 x 60 cm.

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Lot 3475 - A195 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 05 December 2020, 02.30 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 2002.
Aquarell and coloured pen on paper.
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse: Peter Somm, 2002 Werk Nr 872.
56 × 56 cm.

CHF 800 / 1 200 | (€ 820 / 1 240)

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Lot 3473 - A195 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 05 December 2020, 02.30 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 2002.
Watercolor on paper.
Signed and dated lower left: Somm 2002, and numbered lower right: 865. On the reverse signed, dated and numbered: Peter Somm 2002 Werk Nr. 865.
56 × 56 cm.

CHF 800 / 1 200 | (€ 820 / 1 240)

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Lot 3460 - A189 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 29 June 2019, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untiteld. 2012.
Watercolour on wove paper.
Signed and dated lower left: Somm 2012, also with the work number lower right: 1066. Additionally signed, dated and with the work number on the reverse: Peter Somm 2012 Werk Nr. 1066.
66 x 57 cm.

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Lot 3459 - A189 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 29 June 2019, 02.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Untitled. 2009.
Watercolour on wove paper.
Signed, dated and with the work number on the reverse: Peter Somm 2009 Werk Nr. 999.
56 x 76 cm.

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Lot 7097 - ibid128 Prints & Multiples - online only - Wednesday 06 July 2022, 04.00 PM

PETER SOMM

(Sulgen 1940–lives and works in Herrenschwanden)
Doppelkreis. 1980.
Granolithograph. E.A., épreuve d'artiste, artist's proof. Signed and dated in white pencil lower right: Somm 81. Sheet size 80 × 80 cm.

CHF 200 / 300 | (€ 210 / 310)

Sold for CHF 550 (including buyer’s premium)
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