Dieter Schwarz (museum director)

Dieter Schwarz (born September 14, 1953 in Zurich ) is a Swiss curator and author. From 1990 to 2017 he was director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur .

Life

Schwarz studied German and French literature, linguistics and comparative literature in Zurich and received his doctorate in 1981 with a dissertation on the Swiss artist / poet Dieter Roth . From 1981 to 1983 he carried out an edition work for the Adolf Wölfli Foundation at the Kunstmuseum Bern . From 1983 to 1985 he did research on the writer Stéphane Mallarmé in Paris as a scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation .

After initially being a curator, he became director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 1990. Numerous exhibitions and publications, in particular various collection catalogs, were realized under his direction. In 1995 the museum received an extension. He also pursued an active collection policy, particularly for modern and contemporary American works. He is considered to be on friendly terms with the German artist Gerhard Richter , who gave works to the art museum after his double exhibition in 2014.

Schwarz works in Zurich today; he is a member of the board of trustees of the Thomas Schütte Foundation and of the foundation board of the Fondation Félix Vallotton .

Fonts (selection)

• Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968–1989. Catalog raisonné . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1989.
• Gerhard Richter: Drawings 1964–1999. Catalog raisonné. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999.
• Otto Meyer-Amden: The early work 1903–1914 . Scheidegger & Spiess Publishing House, Zurich 2015.
• Art / work: Dieter Schwarz in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur . Edited by Simona Ciuccio. Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern and Vienna 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Schwarz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schwarz Dieter, * 1953, director of the Kunstmuseum 1990–2017 in the Winterthur Glossary.
• Dieter Schwarz's website