Ingeborg Lüscher
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Ingeborg Lüscher, born 1936 in Freiberg
Freiberg, Saxony
Freiberg is a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, administrative center of the Mittelsachsen district.-History:The city was founded in 1186, and has been a center of the mining industry in the Ore Mountains for centuries...
, is a German/Swiss painter, working on painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
and video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
. She was first married to the Swiss psychotherapist Max Lüscher
Max Lüscher
Max Lüscher is a Swiss psychotherapist. He's known for inventing the Lüscher color test, a tool for measuring the person's psychophysical state based on his or her color preferences. Besides research, teaching and practicing psychotherapy in Basel, Lüscher worked for international companies,...
, then to the Swiss curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
and art historian Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann was a Swiss curator and art historian.-Life:Szeemann was born in Bern. He studied art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and Paris, and in 1956 he began working as an actor, stage designer and painter, as well as doing one-man shows. He started creating exhibitions in 1957...
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Since 1967 she works and lives in Tegna
Tegna
Tegna is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-Geography:Tegna has an area, , of . Of this area, or 11.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 59.5% is forested...
, Ticino
Ticino
Canton Ticino or Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. Named after the Ticino river, it is the only canton in which Italian is the sole official language...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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Books
- Ingeborg Lüscher: Dokumentation über A.S.. Der grösste Vogel kann nicht fliegen. Fotos von Ingeborg Lüscher. Köln: DuMont Schauberg, cop. 1972. ISBN 3-7701-0651-2
- Ingeborg Lüscher (Herausgeberin): Erlebtes und Erdäumeltes einander zugeordnet. Oumansky-Preis, Fantonigrafica, Venezia 1975
- Ingeborg Lüscher: Die Angst des Ikarus oder Hülsenfrüchte sind Schmetterlingsblütler. Arbeit mit 13 übermalten Polaroidfotos u. Texten; Aarau; Frankfurt am Main; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1982. ISBN 3-7941-2275-5
- Ingeborg Lüscher: AVANT – APRES / Sheer Prophecy – True Dreams, (Hrsg.) centre d’art contemporainCentre d’Art Contemporain GenèveThe Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Geneva, Switzerland, established in 1974.CAC was the first contemporary art institution in Suisse Romande...
, Genf 1980 - Ingeborg Lüscher (Kuratorin der Ausgabe Nr. 21 der Zeitschrift Studio, Oktober 1983): Jeder Winter hat seinen hellsten Tag. Fotos und Texte; zusammen mit Beiträgen von Francesco ClementeFrancesco ClementeFrancesco Clemente is an Italian and American contemporary artist. Influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti, the art of Francesco Clemente is inclusive and nomadic, crossing many borders, intellectual and geographical.Dividing his time...
, Bernhard Johannes BlumeAnna and Bernhard BlumeAnna and Bernhard Blume refers to the German art photographers Anna Blume and Bernhard Johannes Blume . They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared themselves, with objects taking on a "life" of their own...
, Ulrike Rosenbach, Michael ButheMichael ButheMichael Buthe was a German artist. From 1964 to 1967 he studied art at the Werkkunstschule Kassel. Thereafter he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as master student of Joseph Beuys. From 1985 to his death 1994 he worked as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf...
, Jörg ImmendorffJörg ImmendorffJörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :...
und James Lee Byars - Ingeborg Lüscher: Der unerhörte Tourist – Laurence Pfautz. Aarau; Frankfurt am Main; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1985. ISBN 3-7941-2712-9 (nur erhältlich bei Buchhandlung Libri & Arte in Locarno-MuraltoMuraltoMuralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-Roman settlement:In the second half of the 19th Century, the ruins of a Roman settlement were discovered. However, all the items discovered in these early excavations are either lost or they are kept in...
) - Ingeborg Lüscher (Bilder) und Adolf MuschgAdolf MuschgAdolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.- His life :...
(Text): Japanische Glückszettel. Suhrkamp Insel Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-458-16814-1 - Ingeborg Lüscher, Zaubererfotos / Magician Photos, JRP-RingierJRP-RingierJRP-Ringier, formerly JRP Editions, is a Swiss publisher of high-quality books on contemporary art.Run by Lionel Bovier in Zurich, Switzerland, the company has more than 400 titles in active distribution worldwide, including artists’ books, monographs, exhibition’s catalogues, anthologies and...
, Zurich, 2010, ISBN : 978-3-03764-103-3
Literature
- MANUALE, A reference book about the works of Ingeborg Lüscher, Samuel Herzog (text), Niggli 1999, ISBN 3-7212-0354-2
- Viveri polifonici - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Mart, Rovereto, Verlag Skira, 2004 (texts in Italian and English)
- Lass einen Zweig von weißem Flieder in Südafrika. - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Wiesbaden, 14. Mai - 23. Juli 2006. Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-89258-066-9 (texts in German and English)
External links
- Books by Ingeborg Lüscher
- Ingeborg Lüscher appears in this TV program on Swiss Television: http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=04ce6747-1d48-4458-b1a1-9ec24e0b8072;DCSext.zugang=videoportal_sendungsuebersicht