Doris Stauffer

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Doris Stauffer-Klötzer (born July 21, 1934 in Amden ; † April 26, 2017 in Zurich ) was a Swiss artist and art educator . She was a co-founder of the F + F School for Experimental Design in Zurich and the women's liberation movement (FBB).

life and work

From 1952 to 1955, Stauffer attended the photography class at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich KGSZ , which was led by Hans Finsler and Alfred Willimann . There she met Serge Stauffer , whom she married in 1954. In 1955 daughter Salome was born, in 1957 Monika Thais, in 1959 son Veit followed.

The first assemblages were created in 1961 (also called "object pictures" by Doris Stauffer), for which she used material from her immediate surroundings, such as discarded toys, food and sewing utensils. She showed a selection of these works in a solo exhibition at Club Bel Etage in Zurich and in the group exhibition freunde + freunde (1969) in the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .

In 1969, Stauffer founded the women's liberation movement FBB together with seven other women . At the same time, she began to teach the subject “Teamwork” in the Form and Color (F + F) class at KGSZ. The aim was to encourage improvisation, collaboration and open communication. Inspired by Alexander Sutherland Neill's anti-authoritarian educational concepts, Stauffer suggested using each other's terms and introduced a class council in which everyone involved had a vote. But the school management was critical of the course. After months of pulling the rope around Stauffer's course and discussions about the continuation of class F + F in general, the class council decided on March 13, 1970 to dissolve itself.

Together with Bendicht Fivian, Peter Gygax, Peter Jenny, Hansjörg Mattmüller and Serge Stauffer, she founded the private art school F + F School for Experimental Design in January 1971 and worked there as a teacher until 1981. At F + F, Stauffer continued to teach “teamwork” courses and others such as “people and space”, “awareness exercises” and “provocations”.

In 1975 she worked with around 34 women from various professions - including Bice Curiger , Barbara Davatz , Rosina Kuhn , Irene Staub and Sissi Zöbeli - the group exhibition Women see women: a soulful, intelligent, dangerous show in the Strauhof Zurich. The aim was to provoke a critical examination of everyday female life and the prevailing gender roles. Using different media, topics such as women's biographies, roles and clichés, household, job, sexuality and eroticism were staged. Doris Stauffer was involved in the exhibition with the works Patriarchalisches Panoptikum , consisting of eight peep boxes, and the readymade of house rules. She contributed the work Peniswarmer to the exhibition catalog One-off Catalog , which included three knitted objects and a flyer.

In 1977 Doris Stauffer held her first “witch's course” as a summer course at F + F. The course announcement read:

“We deal with feminism and creativity, the male-oriented concept of culture, sexist tendencies in art. We discover and realize our ideas of creativity, our own language, our concerns and what we as women have to communicate. Working method: information, discussion, practical work with different media (spatial, flat, video, photo, etc.) "

The course was not only aimed at female artists, but wanted to address all interested women. The aim was to create a protected space in which women could jointly investigate what they had to say. The fact that men were not admitted meant that Stauffer had to continue the witchcraft courses externally on a private basis. In 1978 the women's workshop was opened, in which day, evening and holiday courses were held regularly until 1980.

Interviews with Doris Stauffer on her artistic and political work can be found in We Are Few, But Are All - Biographies from the 1968 Generation (Ed. Heinz Nigg) and Upside Down in Zurich (Ed. Fritz Billeter and Peter Killer).

Works by Doris Stauffer were shown retrospectively in 2013 in the exhibition serge stauffer - art as research in the Helmhaus Zurich and at the end of 2014 in a solo exhibition in the art space Les Complices in Zurich. In 2015 she was awarded the Zurich Art Prize. Under the title Je peux faire disparaître un lion , the first institutional solo exhibition opened in 2019 at the Center Culturel Suisse in Paris.

The Serge and Doris Stauffer archive is in the graphic collection of the Swiss National Library in Bern.

Works (selection)

  • 1968, Fulfilled Woman's Life 1, object from a two-part dollhouse, 36 × 60 × 36 cm, Kunsthalle Bern and Düsseldorf
  • 1970, undated, installation with tactile bags made of blue fabric, Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1975, undated, installation with peep boxes, Strauhof Zurich

Publications (selection)

  • 7 songs for Thais. Alice Lang Publishing House, Zurich [1977]
  • 6 short stories about photographs by Liliane Csuka. Self-published, Zurich 2003/2004.

literature

  • André Behr: Doris Stauffer. In: Susanna Nüesch u. a. (Ed.): Room for rooms. Interlokal - an exhibition in the Shedhalle Zurich. Shedhalle, Zurich 2005, pp. 123–126.
  • Heinz Nigg: Conversation with Doris Stauffer. In: Heinz Nigg (Ed.): We are few, but we are all. Biographies from the 68 generation in Switzerland. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2008, pp. 178–184.
  • "It started with a scandal and ended with a party." Doris Stauffer in conversation. In: Fritz Billeter and Peter Killer (eds.): 68 - Zurich is upside down. Rebellion, denial, utopia. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, pp. 37–41.
  • conversation between doris and serge stauffer about emancipation. 1970. In: Helmhaus Zurich (ed.): Serge Stauffer. Art as research. Essays, conversations, translations, studies. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, pp. 57–84.
  • After proofreading Duchamp's interviews. [A conversation between Doris and Serge Stauffer]. 1986. In: Helmhaus Zurich (ed.): Serge Stauffer. Art as research. Essays, conversations, translations, studies. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, pp. 255–274.
  • Monica Danuser: feminist, artist, pioneer. Doris Stauffer wrote a piece of Zurich history. In: ZS Zürcher student newspaper . 4/2014, September 19, 2014 ( zs-online.ch ).
  • Simone Koller, Mara Züst (eds.): Doris Stauffer. A monograph. Photographer, musician, mannequin, baby sister, educator, saleswoman, housewife, housewife, housewife, housewife, housewife - demonstrator! Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-445-6 .
  • Daniel Meier: The witch. Obituary in: NZZ am Sonntag . May 7, 2017, p. 21. ( epaper.nzz.ch ).
  • Denise Marquard: «I am honored for my resistance». In: Tages-Anzeiger . September 1, 2015 ( tagesanzeiger.ch ).
  • Simone Koller, Mara Züst: Doris Stauffer (1934–2017). «When the moon rises, the sun sets». In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung 18/2017, May 4, 2017 (obituary: woz.ch ).
  • Philipp Meier: Doris Stauffer died at 82. The polyactivist. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 4, 2017 (obituary: nzz.ch ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stauffer, Doris. In: Sikart (as of 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Simone Koller, Mara Züst, Doris Stauffer, Andrea Thal, Kay Turner, Michael Hiltbrunner: Doris Stauffer A monograph . Ed .: Simone Koller, Mara Züst. 1st edition. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-445-6 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Hansjörg Mattmüller, Serge Stauffer (eds.): Experiment F + F 1965-70. Verlag HR Lutz, Zurich [1970].
  4. ^ Serge Stauffer: Autobiography. In: Marcel Duchamp: Interviews and Statements. Collected, translated and annotated by Serge Stauffer. Edited by Ulrike Gauss . Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992. p. 243 f, here p. 244.
  5. ↑ Women see women, F_5130. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  6. ^ Exhibition Helmhaus 2013
  7. ^ Exhibition Art Space Les Complices 2014
  8. ^ Brigitte Ulmer : Zurich Prize for Cultural Merit. Doris Stauffer's subversive universe. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ Doris Stauffer award ceremony. (with speech by Mayor Corine Mauch and laudation Bice Curiger ).
  10. ↑ Je peux faire disparaître un lion. Retrieved April 27, 2019 (French).
  11. ^ Graphic Collection of the Swiss National Library ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Stauffer, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stauffer-Klötzer, Doris (full name); Stauffer-Kloetzer, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Amden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2017
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland