Eva Wipf

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Eva Wipf (born May 23, 1929 in Santo Ângelo do Paraiso, Brazil ; † July 29, 1978 in Brugg , legal resident in Trüllikon ) was a Swiss surrealist painter and object artist .

life and work

Eva Wipf was the eldest daughter of the missionary Johannes Wipf and Frieda, née Hablützel. She spent the first five years of her life in Santo Angelo do Paraiso. The family returned to Buch in the canton of Schaffhausen in 1934 . Eva Wipf spent her youth here with her four siblings and attended schools in Buch, Ramsen and Schaffhausen.

After secondary school , Eva Wipf began an apprenticeship as a ceramic painter in the Zielger pottery factory in Thayngen in 1946 and broke it off again after a year. During this time she discovered the Pittura metafisica for herself and self-taught began to paint and draw.

When her family returned to Brazil in 1949, Eva Wipf stayed in Switzerland and was able to show her pictures in numerous exhibitions. She also took part in various group exhibitions, for example in Schaffhausen, Zurich and Aarau . Willi Baumeister later saw her work and offered to teach her, which she refused. Several study trips to Amsterdam , Paris , Munich and Florence followed .

From 1953 to 1966 Eva Wipf lived in Zurich, where she ran a studio in the "Künstlergemeinschaft Südstrasse" for a while and where she met Mario Comensoli . From 1965 onwards, her large-format collages with political and ideological content etc. a. The painting gradually declined environmental issues. After a heated argument with the artist community, Eva Wipf moved to Merenschwand in 1966 to live with her patron Mariann Werner. After returning from a pilgrimage to the Madonna de Laghette near Nice , in 1967 she created the first assemblage shrines with religious and meditative themes, which from then on shaped her artistic work.

Later she dealt with the chaotic, ambivalent, fragile and demonic and also processed topics such as alchemy and transcendental experiences. Eva Wipf had accompanied her constant confrontation with the two extreme poles of utopian-peaceful calm and the unconscious-chaotic areas in her phases of paralyzing depression as well as in her extremely active creative phases. She tried to alleviate her conflict with psychotropic drugs and alcohol, but did not succeed. In addition, Eva Wipf had little success as an outsider and loner in the later years and hardly any social recognition.

Eva Wipf received a scholarship from the City of Zurich in 1959 and 1965 and a tuition fee from the Canton of Zurich in 1968 and 1969. In 1975 she received a grant for a year of work from the Aargau Board of Trustees.

One of her main works is the " Silent Altar" , a large shrine with defective loudspeakers, with two zithers as wings, the strings of which have cracked and whose surfaces are rotting.

After Eva Wipf returned from a trip around the world in 1972, a benefactor from Zurich made it possible for her to buy a house in Brugg and receive a monthly donation of 1,000 francs. Eva Wipf lived there withdrawn until she died at the age of 49 in the old town of Brugg.

The "Eva Wipf Museum Association" in Pfäffikon looks after your estate.

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SURNAME Wipf, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surrealist painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Santo Ângelo do Paraiso, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1978
Place of death Brugg