Wolfsberg Art Salon

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The Haus zum Wolfsberg at Bederstrasse 109 in Zurich- Enge , where the Wolfsberg art salon was located

The Wolfsberg Art Salon was an art gallery that existed from 1911 to 2007 at Bederstrasse 109 in Zurich .

history

The lithographer Johann Edwin Wolfensberger (1873–1944) organized an exhibition of modern Swiss art in 1908 in the Villa Osenbrüggen in Zurich . In 1911 Wolfensberger founded the Wolfsberg Art Salon , which he set up in the Wolfsberg office building at Bederstrasse 109 in Zurich. In addition to business premises and a printing shop, the building contained the Wolfensberger family's apartment. The first director of the art salon was Gottfried Tanner , who later founded the modern gallery on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse . The Wolfsberg Art Salon focused on modern Swiss art ( Cuno Amiet , Alexandre Blanchet , Max Buri , Adolf Dietrich , Alberto Giacometti , Giovanni Giacometti , Ferdinand Hodler , Niklaus Stoecklin , Édouard Vallet and others) and sometimes foreign, especially French art. Wolfensberger opened a branch in Basel in 1916 ; This was closed two years later due to lack of interest. The art salon in Zurich was continued first by a son and then by a grandson of the founder. Since the Second World War , the art salon has increasingly focused on figurative art such as that of Max Gubler , Adolf Herbst and Rudolf Zender . The descendants of the company's founder decided in 2007 to close the art salon. The printing plant continued to operate in Birmensdorf / ZH, the lithographic printing plant on Eglistrasse in Zurich. Condominiums were set up in the listed building at Bederstrasse 109.

gallery

  • Poster for the exhibition by Jean Verhoeven in the Wolfsberg Art Salon, ca.1915

  • Kirchner's poster for the exhibition German graphics in the Wolfsberg art salon, 1920s

  • Giacometti's Lago con nebbia , exhibited at the Wolfsberg Art Salon, among others

  • Doesburg's Simultaneous Composition XXIV , exhibited at Kunstsalon Wolfsberg in 1930

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Koella : The Wolfsberg Art Salon: The first gallery for modern art in Zurich. Lecture at the interdisciplinary conference Le marché de l'art en Suisse, du XIXe siècle à nos jours of the Swiss Institute for Art Research and the Department of History of the University of Lausanne , November 6th and 7th, 2009. Summary


Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '39.7 "  N , 8 ° 31' 31.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-two thousand and ninety-eight  /  246144