Hubert Looser

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Art collector Hubert Looser

Hubert Looser (born April 5, 1938 in Vilters , Switzerland ) is a former Swiss businessman, philanthropist and art collector. Looser was President of Walter Rentsch Holding AG and ELCO Looser Holding AG . Today Looser is a board member of the Fondation Hubert Looser .

Life

Looser was born the sixth of seven children in 1938 in Vilters, Switzerland, where he grew up and went to school. His parents were entrepreneurs and had built up the ELCO company . After Looser had obtained his MBA at Columbia University in New York , he joined his parents' company in 1964 and was entrusted with building up and managing the ELCO group in France, Belgium and Luxembourg until 1980.

During this time, Remaco AG was founded for corporate brokerage and Walter Rentsch AG was taken over in the area of ​​office technology. In 1973 Looser took over the management of Walter Rentsch AG with 120 employees and had 1,200 employees when he left in 1992. In 1990/92 Looser resigned as President of the Walter Rentsch AG and ELCO Looser Holding AG corporate groups .

After the sale of his company shares, Hubert Looser became increasingly involved in the Fondation Hubert Looser, which he co-founded in 1988, in which he still functions as president and which supports around 40 worldwide aid projects with financial means from his assets. Among other things, projects for people with disabilities and children in need, as well as training grants for young people in countries such as Cambodia , Albania and Romania or AIDS projects in South Africa , Zimbabwe and Nigeria are implemented.

Looser is married, has two children and lives in Zurich .

Art collection

During his language stay in Paris in 1957, he was impressed by posters from an Impressionist exhibition and since this experience he went to museums all over the world whenever he had time - in his twenties, Looser completed various language stays and study trips as part of his training, which included him Mexico , Japan , Paris , London and New York and laid the foundation for his passion for collecting. However, most of the first 200 works were still Swiss art. Today Hubert Looser, who resigned as President of Walter Rentsch Holding AG and ELCO Looser Holding AG in 1990/92, after having managed and expanded both companies for decades, is considered an outstanding private collector in Switzerland. His main focus is on works of surrealism , abstract expressionism and minimalism . One of the largest Willem de Kooning collections outside the USA was created as part of the collection. The museum-compatible works of the collection were brought to the Hubert Looser Foundation in 2008, which makes this cultural asset available to the public as a permanent loan at the Kunsthaus Zürich .

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Web links

  1. ↑ NZZ issue No. 124, June 1, 2013
  2. ^ Homepage of the Hubert Looser Foundation
  3. ^ Homepage of the Hubert Looser Foundation
  4. ↑ The 2013 exhibition as a preview of the 2017 Kunsthaus expansion ( memento of the original from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.kunsthaus.ch
personal data
SURNAME Looser, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman, philanthropist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilters , Switzerland