Verena Loewensberg
Verena Loewensberg
Buch
- MAMCO
- Herausgeber: Lionel Bovier
- König, Walther, 09/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch, Japanisch
- ISBN-13: 9783753304069
- Bestellnummer: 11550327
- Umfang: 175 Seiten
- Gewicht: 964 g
- Maße: 303 x 225 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.9.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Concrete art, the final modernist movement in Switzerland, dominated the country's art scene until the end of the 1960s. This movement, which emerged during the interwar period, called for an objective, autonomous visual idiom free from any exterior referentiality-a reason why it is often seen as a cornerstone of Minimalism. It was not until the movement had already peaked that Verena Loewensberg (1912- 1986), the only female member of the "Zurich Concretes," finally enjoyed the same recognition as her peers (who included Max Bill, Camille Graeser, and Richard Paul Lohse). She created concise, structured compositions that showed considerable freedom in terms of shape and color, while working in the local textile industry and accepting commissions for applied art. A jazz enthusiast, she also opened City-Discount, a record store, in Zurich in the 1960s. From this point on her work focused on formal elements and series that broke from the limitations of Concrete art and moved closer to the ideas of Colorfield painting, Pop art, and Minimal art.Text: Anke Kempes, Philip Ursprung.
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Verena Loewensberg
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