Doris Fässler

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Doris Fässler (* 1954 in Zurich ) is a Swiss art historian , curator and Germanist .

Life

Fässler studied art history , German literature and monument conservation at the University of Friborg and the ETH Zurich . In 1982 she graduated in art history (lic. Phil.), In 2002 in German (lic. Phil.) And a diploma as a secondary school teacher at the University of Zurich. She worked at various museums, including as a research assistant at the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur . She then worked for many years as a deputy head of department at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich. From 2002 to 2004 she was research officer and from 2004 to 2018 lecturer for art history at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Design & Art . Fässler curated exhibitions and worked as a publisher. She has written publications on 20th century Swiss art, including a number of publications on Expressionism , among others. a. she is the author of the books published in 1993 and 1999 on the work of Eduard Gubler .

On the 100th anniversary of the initiation exhibition of the Swiss artist group Der Moderne Bund , an exhibition in collaboration with Doris Fässler took place in 2011 at the Lucerne Art Museum . As part of the exhibition, Fässler gave the monograph Der Moderne Bund as the result of her research . Beginning of modernity in Switzerland . According to the review in Sehepunkte, it was not a classic exhibition catalog, "but rather a monographic handbook that, following a strictly historical approach, examines the genesis of this first and most important Swiss group of modern artists and their activities". Fässler introduced the volume with a detailed essay, "which describes the history of the Modern Bund from the first meetings of the founding members to the breakup of the group". Their investigations make it possible to specify previously imprecise data. The volume extends and deepens the results of known research.

Fonts (selection)

  • Meggenhorn Castle , in: Gfrd. 138/1985, pp. 79-14 [Part 1], Gfrd. 139/1986, pp. 101–158 [Part 2]
  • Irma Ineichen : The silent magic of the picture. With texts and poems by Jean-Christophe Ammann . Weltwoche-ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85504-120-2 .
  • "Ignaz Epper, Fritz Pauli, Johann Robert Schürch. Three artist personalities of Swiss Expressionism", in: Exh. Cat. Fritz Kunz and religious painting. Christian Art in German-speaking Switzerland 1890-1960 , Museum in der Burg Zug, 1990, pp. 103–115
  • " The artist as a lone fighter. A phenomenon in Swiss Expressionism " , in: Ipotesi Helvetia. Un certo Espressionismo , Pal. Dei Diamanti Ferrara [1990], Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca Locarno [1991]: Pro Helvetia, pp. 63-78
  • Schweizer Lexikon 91 , 6 vols. Lucerne: Schweizer Lexikon, Mengis & Ziehr, 1991–1993 [therein 94 articles on artists from the Central Switzerland region, 20th century]
  • "Hannah Villiger", in: Exh. Cat. Frammenti, Interface, Intervalli. Paradigmi della Frammentazione nell'Arte Svizzera , div. Places, Genoa: Pro Helvetia, 1992, pp. 199-200
  • with Markus Britschgi: Carmen Perrin, work ... exhibition catalog. Museum im Bellpark, Kriens / Luzern 1992, ISBN 3-905198-08-8 .
  • Albert Müller , exhib.-cat. Pinacoteca comunale, Casa Rusca Locarno, 1993
  • "Emil Schill - A painter between Böcklin and Cézanne", in: Markus Britschgi / Doris Fässler, Emil Schill 1870-1958 , Lucerne: Diopter, 1994, pp. 13–49, appendix and catalog, pp. 223–278
  • "Max Oppenheimer in the area of ​​Swiss Expressionism. His reception in Zurich from 1911 to 1917", in: Exh. Cat. Max Oppenheimer, Mopp (1885-1954) , ed. v. Bernhard Echte, Langmatt Sidney and Jenny Brown Foundation, Baden, 1995, pp. 59–75
  • Aspect: landscape. Exhibition catalog Talmuseum Engelberg , June 22 - August 17, 1997. Diopter-Verlag für Kunst und Fotografie, Luzern 1997, ISBN 3-905425-02-5 .
  • Eduard Gubler 1891–1971. Prints and drawings. Diopter Verlag, Lucerne 1993, ISBN 3-905198-11-8 .
  • Eduard Gubler 1891–1971. Paintings 1913–1925 . Diopter Verlag, Lucerne 1999, ISBN 3-905425-06-8 .
  • André Gysi : Exhibition July 6 - August 18, 2002. The Huberte Goote Gallery, Zug 2002, ISBN 3-935019-53-X .
  • " Between times - art and artists around Hermann Hesse " . In: Regina Bucher et al. (Ed.): Hermann Hesse " Hell journey through myself", Siddharta, Steppenwolf , Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-908025-19-2 , pp. 59-96 (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the National Museum Zurich , 22 March 14-14 July 2002)
  • with Klaus von Matt and Marianne Baltensperger: Paul Stöckli : untitled , undated. Nidwaldner Museum, Stans 2006, ISBN 3-9522723-6-1 .
  • Ed .: Der Moderne Bund - Beginning of Modernism in Switzerland , Diopter-Verlag, Lucerne 2011, ISBN 978-3-905425-16-1 .
  • "Otto Morach in the network of his time", in: Otto Morach. Works on paper , ed. v. Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 2016, pp. 153–169

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical note on the website of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Design & Art
  2. ^ Walter Labhart: Weggis or The Cradle of Modern Swiss Art , Southeastern Switzerland, October 14, 2011
  3. ↑ > Elisa Tamaschke: Doris Fässler (ed.): Der Moderne Bund , Sehepunkte, Issue 13 (2013), No. 6 - Review
personal data
SURNAME Fassler, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich