Louise Lawler

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Louise Lawler at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2012)

Louise A. Lawler (* 1947 in Bronxville , New York , United States ) is an American artist.

life and work

She finished her studies at Cornell University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts .

Louise Lawler works with photographs, material images and installations . In her approach, she shows different works of art in different places and with different functions. To do this, she follows the path of the works of art sold in her exhibitions to their new place of residence after they have left the studio , right up to their presentation in museums, private or company collections. In doing so, she captures the new place of the works through her photographs.

She photographed works of art in the living rooms of art collectors and in museums in situ , i.e. with their respective surroundings. It thus shows the context in which art is received and how it is staged in rooms.

However, when taking photos, she is not looking for an exact and perfect reproduction of the works of art she has photographed. On the contrary, she is interested in a unique atmosphere in her pictures, in which she explores the changes that arise from the various presentation locations. The viewer is made aware of the surrounding context, the production and the presentation of the works.

The first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work showed the Museum Ludwig in 2013/14 and used the entire building.

Lawler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 . She lives and works in New York.

Appropriation Art

Louise Lawler is a photographer who is assigned to Appropriation Art : The term comes from the Latin usage “appropriare” and translates as “to make your own”. So it is the art of appropriating other (art) works. In the artistic field, Appropriation Art includes any approach in which artists intentionally use other people's goods as part of their own productions.

Exhibitions

Books

German

English

  • Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) . The MIT Press, 2006, ISBN 0-262-62206-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louise Lawler and others . Hatje Cantz Verlag; Kunstmuseum Basel, 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1420-0 .
  2. ^ Elger, Dietmar, Weski, Thomas: For sale . Cantz Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-89322-269-3 .
  3. ^ Kaiser, Philipp., Baker, George .: Louise Lawler and others . Hatje Cantz Verlag; Kunstmuseum Basel, 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1420-0 .
  4. ^ Elger, Dietmar, Weski, Thomas: For sale . Cantz Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89322-269-8 .
  5. ↑ Schaffner, Ingrid., Winzen, Matthias., Batchen, Geoffrey .: Deep storage: arsenals of memory: collecting, storing, archiving in art / edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen; with essays by Geoffrey Batchen ... [et al.]; and short articles by Hubertus Gassner ... [et al.]; An initiative of the Siemens culture program. Prestel, 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1847-0 .
  6. ↑ Blume Huttenlauch, Anna .: Appropriation Art - Art at the borders of copyright . Nomos, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-4838-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Lawler, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist (photography, material images, installations)
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronxville , New York (State)