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Swiss Pavilion
The Swiss pavilion houses Switzerland's national pavilion, national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. Background Organization and building The Swiss pavilion was designed by Swiss architect Bruno Giacometti as part of a design competition and was constructed in 1952. It has multiple rooms linked by courtyards. Between 1990 and 2009, Switzerland also used the San Stae church as exhibition venue. From 1932 until 1952 Switzerland had another pavilion, designed by Brenno Del Giudice on the island Sant'Elena. As of 2012, Pro Helvetia has assumed responsibility for the Swiss contributions to the Venice Biennale. Representation by year Art * 1920 — Group exhibition * 1926 — Group exhibition * 1932 — Paul Bodmer, Numa Donzé, Augusto Giacometti, Karl Otto Hügin, Reinhold Kündig, Martin Lauterburg, Ernst Morgenthaler, Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini, Karl Geiser, Hermann Haller, Hermann Hubacher, Johann Jakob Probst, René Auberjonois (painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (; 19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer. Born in 1889 in Davos, and raised in Trogen, Switzerland, she attended a trade school in St. Gallen and, later, art schools in Germany, before moving back to Switzerland during the First World War. At an exhibition in 1915, she met for the first time the German-French artist Hans Arp, Hans/Jean Arp, whom she married shortly after. It was during these years that they became associated with the Dada movement, which emerged in 1916, and Taeuber-Arp's most famous works – ''Dada Head'' (''Tête Dada''; 1920) – date from these years. They moved to France in 1926, where they stayed until the invasion of France during the Second World War, at the event of which they went back to Switzerland. In 1943, she died in an accident with a leaking gas stove. Despite being overlooked since her death, she is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Armleder
John Armleder (born 1948, in Geneva) is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations and collective art activities that were strongly influenced by John Cage. However, Armleder's position throughout his career has been to avoid associating his artistic practice with any type of manifesto. Early life and education Armleder was born as the son of a hotelier (owners of Le Richemond). He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva (1966-7) and at the Glamorgan Summer School, Britain (1969). Work In 1969, with Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner, Armleder founded the ''Groupe Ecart'' in Geneva, from which stemmed the Galerie Ecart and its associated performance group and publications. The ''Groupe Ecart'' was particularly important in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s, not only through its activity as an independent publishing house, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Cahn
Miriam Cahn (born July 21, 1949, in Basel) is a Swiss painter. Biography Cahn studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basle from 1968 to 1975. Work Cahn's paintings and drawings incorporate feminism themes and female rituals; featuring "violent and shocking representations of sexual organs". They are often created using unorthodox methods.Priscilla Frank (September 3, 2012"Swiss Painter Miriam Cahn On Her Upcoming Exhibition 'Lachen Bei Gefahr' At Badischer Kunstverein, Germany" ''Huffington Post (Arts & Culture)''. Retrieved 2013-06-18. Cahn's first exhibition was ''Being a Women in My Public Role ''in 1979. Cahn's first exhibition in the United States was at the Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, in 2011. Cahn's work has been said to show influence by the Neo-Expressionism movement. At first glance, most of the motifs used by Miriam Cahn appear unspectacular,: people, buildings, animals, plants, some in bright or even garish colours, some in gloomy shades of black an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot. Biography Early life He was born Karl-Dietrich Roth in Hannover, the first of three sons. His mother Vera was German; his father Karl-Ulrich was a Swiss businessman. After the beginning of World War II, Roth was to spend each summer in Switzerland at the behest of the Swiss charity Pro Juventute, a group trying to protect Swiss-German children from the worst ravages of the war. By 1943 the exile had become permanent, and Roth was sent to live with a family in Zürich. This house, the home of the family of Fritz Wyss, was shared with Jewish and communist artists and actors. It was here that Roth would be encouraged to start painting and to write poetry. He wasn't to be re-united with his family, which was by now utterly destitute, until 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (''Staatliches Bauhaus'') school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus. Life and work He was born in Südern-Linden, Switzerland. From 1904 to 1908 he trained as an elementary school teacher. Beginning in 1908 he taught using methods developed by the creator of the kindergarten concept, Friedrich Fröbel, and was exposed to the ideas of psychoanalysis. In 1909 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva but was unimpressed with the educators there, and returned to Bern. Itten's studies at the Bern-Hofwil Teachers' Academy with Ernst Schneider proved seminal for his later work as a master at the Bauhaus. Itten adopted principles espoused by Schneider, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Kemény
Zoltán Kemény (21 March 1907 – 14 June 1965) was a sculptor. Kemény was born in Bănița, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Romania). He was the only Hungarian to win a prize at the Venice Biennale. He died in Zurich, Switzerland, aged 58. See also *List of sculptors This is a list of sculptors – notable people known for three-dimensional artistic creations, which may include those who use sound and light. It is incomplete and you can help by expanding it. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J ... External linksBiography at Lorenzelliarte.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varlin
Willy Leopold Guggenheim, known as Varlin (16 March 1900 – 30 October 1977), was a Swiss painter. His figurative work emphasized the fragility of everyday life. Varlin was friends with Hugo Loetscher and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and painted them. Life Varlin was born in Zurich with a twin sister, Erna. He grew up on the outskirts of Zurich. When he was twelve years of age, his father and elder sister died within two months of each other. This began a fascination with darkness that would influence his work for the rest of his life. In his early teens Varlin and his remaining family moved to St. Gallen. Here he attended high school, eventually taking a year-and-a-half apprenticeship as a lithographer. This gave him easy access to Bavarian limestone, the same material used by Manet, Daumier, and Gavarni to make prints. However he found lithography to be hard work, and was frustrated not to be creating his own works. After finishing his apprenticeship he swore never to make anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Tschumi
Otto Tschumi (4 August 1904 – 18 February 1985 in Bern) was a Swiss painter, considered one of the most important Swiss surrealists. Biography Born to a cabman and a seamstress, Tschumi grew up in modest circumstances in Bern and attended school there. He worked in Nancy, Switzerland as a lithographer but was also able to earn his living as a graphic artist, creating posters, stamps, and other graphics. He was originally self-taught, but began to refine his style after entering an art trade school and receiving guidance from Ernst Link in the 1920s. In 1933, he married the dancer Beatrice Gutekunst, with whom he stayed until the end of his life. From 1936 to 1940, after a short six month stint in London with his wife, he lived in Paris with Beatrice. Tschumi kept in contact with other prominent surrealists, including: Max Ernst, Jean Arp & Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Glarner
Fritz Glarner (July 20, 1899 in Zurich – September 18, 1972 in Locarno) was a Switzerland, Swiss-American Painting, painter. Glarner was a leading proponent of so-called Concrete Art, an artists' movement whose roots lead back to the painters of De Stijl and the principles of the Bauhaus. He was a disciple of Piet Mondrian, strongly influenced by Mondrian's theories of "dynamic symmetry." As he developed as an artist, his works began to be increasingly influenced by Mondrian's Neoplastic theory. His leaning toward nonrepresentational art had begun as early as 1929 in Paris, where he was a member of the Abstraction-Création group. Glarner took up Mondrian's motif of arranging simplified colors and forms on an architectural pattern. Glarner introduced a diagonal into the strict horizontal and vertical geometric aesthetic of Mondrian, creating new, yet equally systematic principles of composition that he termed "relational painting." Like Mondrian, Glarner limited his color ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Eble
Theo Eble (1899–1974) was a Swiss painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai .... References * 20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters 1899 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Graeser
Camille Graeser (1892–1980) was a Swiss painter and member of the circle of Zurich Concrete artists. He was born in Switzerland but grew up in Stuttgart, Germany where he became a furniture designer. He took part in major exhibitions by the association Werkbund and in 1927 was invited to create furniture for Mies van der Rohe. In 1933 he fled to Switzerland as a result of the Nazis coming to power. He then became a member of the Swiss artists’ association Allianz. Works Estate The Camille Graeser Foundation was established in 1981, and is responsible for his artistic estate. Exhibitions * 2020 — Camille Graeser, Museum Haus Konstruktiv *2019 — The Amory Show, Pier 94, Von Bartha * 2016 — Camille Graeser und die Musik, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart *1985 — Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980, The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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