Hauser & Wirth

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Hauser & Wirth is a gallery for contemporary art founded in Zurich in 1992 , with further exhibition and sales rooms in London and New York and a collection in Henau in the canton of St. Gallen .

The Hauser & Wirth branch in London
Hauser & Wirth in Somerset

history

Ursula Hauser-Fust, the then partner in the electrical goods chain Dipl. Ing. Fust , which was run by her brother , began to build up her own art collection in the 1980s after her children had grown up. Hauser, who grew up in Gossau and Niederuzwil , bought works by Max Bill and Meret Oppenheim and added contemporary art to the collection.

Together with her daughter Manuela and her later husband Iwan Wirth , she founded a gallery in Zurich in 1992 with established artists such as Gerhard Richter and Marcel Broodthaers and participated primarily as a sponsor in various contemporary art projects. In 1998, Hauser & Wirth became a partner in the Walcheturm gallery in Zurich, which soon operated as Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber alongside Hauser & Wirth .

The collaboration between Iwan Wirth and the German entrepreneur Friedrich Christian Flick , for whose collection Wirth, known as the Flick Collection, wrote the collection concept and acted in an advisory capacity, was essential for the development of the gallery . With increasing success, Hauser & Wirth opened their own collection in Henau. After the Wirth family moved to London in 2003, they opened a branch there. In the rooms of the Colnaghi Gallery in London's Bond Street , acquired in 2002 by Munich art dealers Konrad Bernheimer and Katrin Bellinger , which until now has only sold old masters , Hauser & Wirth have been operating another exhibition space since October 2006 under the name Hauser & Wirth at Colanghi . In the summer of 2014, the gallery opened additional premises on Durslade Farm in Somerset . The Zurich gallery is located in the so-called Löwenbräu area on Limmatstrasse. In Los Angeles, the gallery is also located in old industrial rooms.

In addition to Swiss artists such as Roman Signer , Christoph Büchel and Pipilotti Rist , Hauser & Wirth also represent international artists such as Louise Bourgeois , Maria Lassnig and Paul McCarthy , and manage the estates of Eva Hesse , Jason Rhoades , Lee Lozano , André Thomkins , Philip Guston and Eduardo Chillida .

Hauser & Wirth Collection

The Hauser & Wirth Collection , which emerged from the gallery, is located in Henau in the canton of St. Gallen , from whose holdings several exhibitions have been assembled:

The Collection in Henau is registered as a collection of national importance in the list of the Swiss inventory of cultural goods of national and regional importance .

bibliography

  • Michaela Unterdörfer (Ed.): Alternating current, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89611-101-9
  • Roman Signer, Michaela Unterdörfer: Installation in the water tower, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89611-099-3
  • Michaela Unterdörfer (Ed.): Swiss Made: The Art of Falling Apart, Zwolle 2005, ISBN 90-400-9078-5
  • Michaela Unterdörfer, Fritz Emslander: Ballerina in a Whirlpool, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-936859-47-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eastern Switzerland - The Ursula Hauser Collection returns to the Lokremise . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . August 31, 2016 ( srf.ch [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ The collector Ursula Hauser returns . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . March 6, 2012 ( tagblatt.ch [accessed April 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ "The Company" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: art magazine 2/2002 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  4. ^ Hanno Rauterberg: The Imperialist from Oberuzwil , in: DIE ZEIT 40/2005
  5. ↑ Alice Rawsthorn: "The Dealer" , in: NY Times December 3, 2006
  6. ^ Daniel Schreiber: Lustmord in der Scheune , in: DIE ZEIT 33/2015, August 13, 2015
  7. ↑ Website of the gallery: Globe Grain and Milling Company - History ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 31, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauserwirthschimmel.com
  8. ↑ Website of the gallery: We are delighted to announce that we now represent the Estate of Philip Guston ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hauserwirth.com
  9. ^ "Hauser & Wirth is delighted to announce worldwide exclusive representation of The Estate of Eduardo Chillida." Hauser & Wirth on Instagram , November 30, 2017.


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