Death Artist Yvan Pestalozzi deceased at the age of 86
The inventor of the Lozzi worm, which used to be installed in many school playgrounds, and the creator of many wind chimes and giant marble runs has died: artist Yvan "Lozzi" Pestalozzi died on July 3 at the age of 86.
11.07.2024, 12:50
SDA
Pestalozzi's works were often playful. This is not surprising if you know his guiding principle, as the Lozzi Museum in Wald in the Zurich Oberland announced on Thursday. This was: "Think like a mature person - be able to be happy like a child."
"Lozzi" wrote on his website that he wanted to use his work "with my own, often cheerful and ironic playfulness to combat the adversities of this world". "I want to bring some light into this gloom with my work."
People who enter his museum with a "Lätsch" should leave with a smile, the artist said at the opening of his museum in Wald in 2021, as the "Zürcher Oberländer" wrote in his obituary on Tuesday.
Yvan Pestalozzi was born in Glarus in 1936. He completed an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker and trained himself as an artist. Because: "There was and is no vocational or school education for what I wanted to learn for my work".
In 1964, at the age of 27, he took the plunge into self-employment; he worked as a freelance artist all over the world. According to his museum, his best-known works include the Lozzi worm, wind sculptures, giant spherical roller coasters, the time machine for UBS and the ABB Weltmobile.
