Bernhard Lüthi

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Bernhard Lüthi (born August 21, 1938 in Bern ) is a Swiss painter and curator .

life and work

Bernhard Lüthi trained as a photo retoucher in Berne, after which he worked as a designer in an advertising agency in Basel from 1961 to 1964 and at the same time began to produce his own artistic work. He has lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 1968 . He stayed several times for longer periods in Australia (1974-75, 1977-78 and 1985), where he dealt with the art and culture of the Aborigines . Lüthi spent 1976 in New York.

Bernhard Lüthi had teaching positions from 1979 to 1980 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and from 1989 to 1990 at the Art Academy in Münster .

In the 1980s Bernhard Lüthi was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and from 1990 to 1994 he curated the exhibition "Aratjara - Art of the First Australians", which was shown in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, London and Louisiana. In 1989 he was in charge of the Australian contribution to the Magiciens de la terre exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris . From 1999 to 2001 he was co-curator of the exhibition "Altars of the World" in the Museum Kunstpalast . In 2006 he initiated a retrospective on the work of the Australian artist John Mawurndjul in the Museum Tinguely in Basel and in the Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Bernhard Lüthi and Gary Lee Aratjara: Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders , 1993 ISBN 3926154160
  • Carl Haenlein exhibition 1977-Bernhard Lüthi / Switzerland, Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3: hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel, page 118, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
  2. ^ Where art and cultural mediation come together, Fiona Siegenthaler strange and familiar , accessed on January 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Lüthi. In: Sikart accessed on January 12, 2015
  4. ↑ artfacts artist biography Bernhard Lüthi ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 12, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artfacts.net
personal data
SURNAME Lüthi, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern