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Kunstmuseum Solothurn
The Kunstmuseum Solothurn or Art Museum Solothurn is an art museum in the Swiss town Solothurn. History The museum opened in 1902. The early exposition showed the town's collections of arts, historical artifacts and natural historical objects. Around 1980, the natural history collection was moved to the Naturmuseum Solothurn, the museumsbuilding was converted and since then exhibits art from various collections along with short-period exhibitions of contemporary art. Collection The collection has five divisions: old masters, Swiss landscapes from the 18th until the 20th century, Swiss contemporary art, and two separate collections from gifts from collectors; the Dûbi-Müller and Josef-Müller collection, focused on international atr from the late 19th and early 20th century, and a collection of works by Max Gubler. Highlights of the collection of old masters include a "Madonna of the Strawberries" from 1425, the '' Solothurner Madonna'' by Hans Holbein the Younger, and wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
The Kunstmuseum Solothurn or Art Museum Solothurn is an art museum in the Swiss town Solothurn. History The museum opened in 1902. The early exposition showed the town's collections of arts, historical artifacts and natural historical objects. Around 1980, the natural history collection was moved to the Naturmuseum Solothurn, the museumsbuilding was converted and since then exhibits art from various collections along with short-period exhibitions of contemporary art. Collection The collection has five divisions: old masters, Swiss landscapes from the 18th until the 20th century, Swiss contemporary art, and two separate collections from gifts from collectors; the Dûbi-Müller and Josef-Müller collection, focused on international atr from the late 19th and early 20th century, and a collection of works by Max Gubler. Highlights of the collection of old masters include a "Madonna of the Strawberries" from 1425, the '' Solothurner Madonna'' by Hans Holbein the Younger, and wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Méret Oppenheim
Meret (or Méret) Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. Early life Meret Oppenheim was born on 6 October 1913 in Berlin. She was named after Meretlein, a wild child who lives in the woods, from the novel ''Green Henry'' by Gottfried Keller. Oppenheim had two siblings, a sister Kristin (born 1915), and a brother Burkhard (born 1919).Bice Curiger, ''Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the Face of Freedom'' (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989), p. 9 Her father, a German-Jewish doctor, was conscripted into the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Consequently, Oppenheim and her mother, who was Swiss, moved to live with Oppenheim's maternal grandparents in Delémont, Switzerland."Curiger, ''Defiance'', p.10" In Switzerland, Oppenheim was exposed to a plethora of art and artists from a young age, including Alfred Kubin, German Expressionists, French Impressionists and poems of the Romantics. Oppenheim was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo Giezendanner
Ingo Giezendanner (born 1975) is a painter and installation artist and member of the Kroesos Foundation. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 1998, Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen on paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wallpaintings. In conjunction with Mark Divo he painted the exterior façade on the squatted factory grounds Wohlgroth in Zürich in 1993. Since then, GRRRR has realized many wall paintings. During his stay in New York, he painted a mural on East 2nd Street. In 2004, he worked on a large-scale mural on a site hoarding at the Kunsthaus Zurich depicting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wüthrich
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Ian Anüll
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Felix Stephan Huber
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Uwe Wittwer
Uwe Wittwer (born 1954) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. The media he uses include watercolor, oil painting, inkjet prints and video. Life and work Uwe Wittwer is an autodidact. Born 1954 in Zurich where he went to school, he originally trained as a social worker (Bern, 1974–1977). In 1979 he rented his first studio. His early works were colourful abstract expressive oil paintings. The change towards figurative painting took place during the mid 80s. His first solo exhibition was at ''Galerie Walcheturm'', Zurich in 1983. In 1989 he spent time in London on a studio grant (Binz 39 Foundation, Zurich). In 1994 studied in Paris for a year, financed by a grant by the Canton Zurich. In the same year, he received the Swiss federal scholarship for the arts. 1998 solo exhibition at ''Helmhaus Zurich'', the first time his digitally edited photographs were shown. Since then, digitally manipulated images are part of his work.Kraft, Martin (1998). ''Biografi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Schnider
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