Jean-Frédéric Schnyder

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Jean-Frédéric Schnyder (born May 16, 1945 in Basel ) is a Swiss painter , graphic artist , photographer , object and installation artist and conceptual artist . He has lived in Zug since 1996 .

life and work

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder grew up in the orphanage in Bern . From 1962 to 1965 he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer in Wengen .

From 1966 he created his first artistic works, which were to be located as object art in the vicinity of Pop Art . That year, Harald Szeemann invites him to participate in the exhibition When Attitudes Become Form in the Kunsthalle Bern . From 1970, Schnyder dealt with oil painting and conceptual art. In 1972 he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department with some objects . He was also represented as an artist at Documenta 7 in 1982.

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder had important solo exhibitions in 1987 in the Kunsthalle Basel , in 1992 in the Kunstmuseum Bern and in the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau . In 1993 Schnyder represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale .

As an artist, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder is self-taught . His work, his media and topics are diverse. As a painter he worked in the areas between realism , symbolism and abstract color field painting . He also created sculptures made of clay, metal and wood and objects made of various materials such as Lego blocks or chewing gum. Schnyder's art often walks a tightrope between humor, kitsch and a parody of the conventional art world.

Exhibitions

Sources and literature

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today . Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.): Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 . Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel ; Vol. 1: (visual biographies of the artists); Vol. 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 ISBN 3-920453-02-6
  • Exhibition catalog edited by Philipp Kaiser: Jean-Frédéric Schnyder , Kunstmuseum Basel 2007 ISBN 978-3-7204-0171-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SIKART: Schnyder, Jean-Frédéric , March 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schnyder, Jean-Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland