Albert Lutz

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Albert Lutz (born November 21, 1954 in Chur ) is a Swiss art historian and former director of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich .

Career

Albert Lutz, a native of Chur in Graubünden, moved to Zurich as a teenager, where he studied art history, the history of art in East Asia and German literature at the University of Zurich .

In 1982 he started working at the Museum Rietberg as a curator for Chinese art. After numerous trips to China and a research stay in the province of Yunnan in Kunming, Albert Lutz obtained his doctorate on a subject of Buddhist art in the province of Yunnan. He regards the art ethnologist Eberhard Fischer , director of the Museum Rietberg until 1998, and the East Asian art historian Helmut Brinker as his mentors. Albert Lutz was appointed director of the Museum Rietberg in 1998 and managed the house until he retired in early December 2019. He handed over the management to his successor, Annette Bhagwati.

"Smaragd" extension

In addition to his exhibition and collection activities at the Museum Rietberg, Albert Lutz launched the project of a spacious, underground extension for the Museum Rietberg, with which large, temporary exhibitions are possible. Thanks to the political support and the commitment of many sponsors, the so-called “Smaragd” by the architects Krischanitz and Grazioli was opened in 2007.

Create

Albert Lutz realized around 30 exhibitions, as sole curator or together with other curators, in the course of his work at the Museum Rietberg and presented a loose series of cross-cultural exhibitions.

This also includes the exhibition “SPIEGEL - Man in Reflection” (May 17 to September 22, 2019). It showed over 200 objects and works from antiquity to the present, which have accompanied people and inspired artists in all media, including painting, film, photography, and installations. The works came from 95 international museums and private collections.

On the initiative of Albert Lutz, the Rietberg Museum was one of the first museums in Switzerland to set up its own provenance research center in 2008.

Publications (selection)

  • with Helmut Brinker: Chinese Cloisonné / Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection. Museum Rietberg Zurich 1985.
  • The Temple of the Three Pagodas of Dali, on the Buddhist art of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom in Yünnan, China. Museum Rietberg Zurich (doctoral thesis), 1991.
  • (Ed.), With contributions by Qiu Xuanchong, Yü Chünfang, Angela F. Howard u. a .: The gold treasure of the Three Pagodas. Museum Rietberg Zurich 1991.
  • with Huang Qi: Chinese scenes 1656/1992, the 13 meter long picture scroll by the painter Xiao Yuncong from 1656. Photographs by Daniel Schwarz. Museum Rietberg Zurich 1992.
  • 1993–2004: Numerous articles in exhibition catalogs as well as in museum guides (exhibitions of Asian painting, Chinese scholarly stones, oracles, love art etc.)
  • Through the stone to paradise, stories and notes on Chinese scholar stones. In: Philip origin: Herzog & De Meuron, natural history. Lars Müller, Baden 2003 (English), 2005 (German).
  • The Bodhisattva's odyssey. In: Zurich Studies in the History of Art, Volume 13/14, Zurich, 2009.
  • (Ed.): Mystik - The longing for the absolute. Museum Rietberg Zurich. Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich 2011.
  • (Ed.): Gardens of the World, Places of Longing and Inspiration. Zurich 2016.
  • ma (ed.): Kosmos, world designs in comparison. Zurich 2014.
  • Mirror - Man in reflection. Zurich 2019.
  • Various publications in scientific journals and in the press.

Exhibitions in the Museum Rietberg (as sole curator or as co-curator) (selection)

  • 1985: Chinese cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection.
  • 1986: Dian. A sunken kingdom in China. New finds from the People's Republic of China.
  • 1988: lotus flowers in the desert. Buddhist art from Central Asia.
  • 1989: Oxus. 2000 years of art on the Oxus River in Central Asia.
  • 1991: The gold treasure of the Three Pagodas. Buddhist art of a sunken kingdom between China and Burma.
  • 1992: Shiva and Buddha. Buddhist masterpieces from museums in Sri Lanka.
  • 1992: Chinese scenes. Chinese painting from Anhui Province.
  • 1993: Gold and silver from ancient China. The Pierre and Alice Uldry Collection.
  • 1995: On the path to enlightenment. Berti Aschmann's Tibet Collection.
  • 1996: Mandate from Heaven. Emperor and artist in China. Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  • 1998: Paths to Paradise or the Love of Stone in China.
  • 1999: Secret Visions. Early Tibetan painting.
  • 1999: Oracle. The look into the future.
  • 2000: Korea. The old kingdoms. Treasures from the Korean national museums.
  • 2002: The Return of the Buddha. New finds of Buddhist sculptures from the 6th century in the Chinese province of Shandong.
  • 2002: love art. Love lust and love sorrow in world art.
  • 2003: masks. Faces from other worlds.
  • 2005/2007: Refurbishment of the Rietberg Museum collection
  • 2007: Liao - China's forgotten nomad dynasty
  • 2007: Angkor - Divine Heritage of Cambodia
  • 2009: Buddha's Paradise - Treasures from ancient Gandhara in Pakistan
  • 2011: Mysticism - The longing for the absolute
  • 2013: Chinese ceramics - Meiyintang Collection
  • 2014: Cosmos - the mystery of humanity
  • 2015: World in Color - Color Photography around 1915
  • 2016: Gardens of the World
  • 2019: Spiegel - Man in reflection

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://rietberg.ch/media/1220559/publikationsliste_albert_lutz.pdf
  2. ↑ http://rietberg.ch/media/1220562/wahl_ausstellungen_albert_lutz.pdf
  3. ↑ Mysticism - The Longing for the Absolute
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian and music director
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur