Hansjörg Mattmüller

Hansjörg Mattmüller (born May 21, 1923 in Lucerne ; † December 22, 2006 in Zurich ) was a Swiss art teacher.

life and work

He first studied at the Basel School of Applied Arts and then in Paris. His artistic ambitions soon pointed in the direction of non-representational art. At the end of the 1950s, Mattmüller was one of the protagonists in what Arnold Rüdlinger called "signal art".

In 1959, Hans Fischli appointed Mattmüller to lead the preliminary course at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (KGSZ) . Many of his students wanted to become artists like David Weiss , Urs Lüthi or Hansruedi Giger . Due to the promising results, the F + F class (for “Form and Color”) was founded in 1965 under the direction of Mattmüller and the art theorist and Duchamp expert Serge Stauffer . In 1970 the class was disbanded by their pupils and teachers due to “unacceptable conditions” in the KGSZ.

As early as 1971 he founded the private art school F + F School for Experimental Design together with Bendicht Fivian, Peter Gygax, Peter Jenny, Doris Stauffer and Serge Stauffer . From 1971 to 2000 he headed F + F as rector.

Known students

Peter Schweri (1939–2016), Swiss painter, draftsman and object artist

Editorships

with Gerhard Johann Lischka: There is genius. The seventies at the F&F School for Experimental Design. Betzel, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
with Hans-Rudolf Lutz , Serge Stauffer: Experiment F + F 1965–70. Lutz, Zurich [1970].
F + F Zurich. The open art course. Benteli, Bern 1991.

Web links

Mattmüller, Hansjörg. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Hansjörg Mattmüller, Serge Stauffer (eds.): Experiment F + F 1965-70. Zurich: Verlag HR Lutz, 1970.
↑ Lutz u. a., 1970, o. S. (Pappelmann-Repport, letter of termination of class F + F of March 13, 1970).
^ Serge Stauffer: Autobiography. In: Marcel Duchamp: Interviews and Statements. Collected, translated and annotated by Serge Stauffer. Edited by Ulrike Gauss . Stuttgart: Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1992. pp. 243 f., Here p. 244.

personal data
SURNAME	Mattmüller, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 2006
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Hansjörg Mattmüller, Serge Stauffer (eds.): Experiment F + F 1965-70. Zurich: Verlag HR Lutz, 1970.

[2] Lutz u. a., 1970, o. S. (Pappelmann-Repport, letter of termination of class F + F of March 13, 1970).

[3] Serge Stauffer: Autobiography. In: Marcel Duchamp: Interviews and Statements. Collected, translated and annotated by Serge Stauffer. Edited by Ulrike Gauss . Stuttgart: Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1992. pp. 243 f., Here p. 244.