Curriculum vitae
Born in Interlaken in 1927 as the youngest son of three to Italian parents. Originated in Padua, they live in Switzerland in modest circumstances.
Already in 1928 they move to Zürich. At the age of only 13 months Cesare falls ill with Poliomyelitis. A severe walking handicap remains.
With his father he learns how to plaster, pour cement and restore, as a schoolboy around 1935. At the same time he starts modelling. Because of his handicap he is not meant to find a teacher among the sculptors after the war so he becomes an autodidact. He continues his education as a student at the university of arts in Zürich, attends the academy in Florence and during his years of travel works together with sculptors as Manzù, Marini or Poncet.
In 1958 he starts giving lectures at the university of arts and vocational school as well as holding his courses at the club school in Zürich. And he gets married to the artistic talented Jacqueline Renfer in the same year, with her he has raised three children and has been living in Zürich to this day.
In the subsequent fifty years he became a Swiss citizen, established his methodical courses ‘introduction into stone sculpture’ and built up his artist’s workshop in Höngg where he has created dozens of masterpieces. He has been working with stone in this same studio up to today being in his eighties now.