Daniel Hug (art dealer)
Daniel Claude Hug (* 1968 in Zurich ) is an American art dealer . He has been the director of the Art Cologne art fair since 2008 .
Live and act
Origin and career
Daniel C. Hug grew up in an art-friendly family in Zurich. He was born as the younger son of the Swiss architect Hans-Ruedi Hug and his wife Hattula Moholy-Nagy (* 1933). His mother was the older daughter of the artist László Moholy-Nagy , who - born in Berlin - emigrated with her parents László and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and grew up in the United States. She studied archeology (with an MA and PhD) and became sole heir and administrator of her father's estate after the death of her mother and sister in 1971. After their divorce in 1979, Hattula Hug-Moholy-Nagy moved to Ann Arbor , Michigan with two sons, Andreas and Daniel .
After attending Ann Arbor Community High School until 1987, Daniel Hug studied painting, photography and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in the early 1990s .
Professional Activities
After various activities in the art field in Los Angeles , he returned to Chicago in 1994 and entered the art trade after giving up his own painting. With his RX Gallery , he was unexpectedly admitted to Art Chicago , the most important American art fair at the time, and became a member of the admission committee in the following years 2000 and 2001. With a colleague, the artist Michael Hall, he ran the Chicago Project Room (CPR), where, among other things, they put on performances, staged contemporary music and exhibited artists such as Candice Breitz , Helen Mirra, Muntean / Rosenblum and Gerwald Rockenschaub .
In 2003 Hug moved his art dealership to the Chinatown district in Los Angeles, trading under the name of Daniel Hug Gallery and representing young artists from the USA, Germany and Poland, among others in cooperation with the Berlin gallery Baudach. As with the CPR, he took part in the art fair Liste - The Young Art Fair in Basel and sent to Art Basel Miami Beach , Art Forum Berlin and Art Chicago. At the same time, he was a participant and advisor to Art LA , the Los Angeles art fair. At the same time, he worked for the Moholy-Nagy Foundation and was able to expand his contacts with collectors, art museums and galleries of classical modernism. In 2007 he was a member of the jury of the Open Space at Art Cologne.
On May 1, 2008, Hug was appointed director of the Art Cologne art fair, succeeding Gérard Goodrow. In 2012 he was also acting provisionally at the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques trade fair, which took place in November of the same year .
Hug lives in Cologne. He is a Swiss abroad .
literature
- Richard Hertz: The Beat and the Buzz: Inside the LA Art World. Hol Art Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-936102-20-4 , pp. 250 ff.
- Thomas W. Kuhn: Daniel Hug shows himself in Cologne. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 28, 2008.
- Burkhard Maus: Daniel Hug - On the right track. In: art - the art magazine from April 11, 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Hug in the catalog of the German National Library
- Daniel Hug on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hug, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hug, Daniel Claude (full name); Hug, Daniel C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art dealer, director of Art Cologne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |