Lukas Gloor

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Lukas Gloor (born December 9, 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss art historian . Since 2002 he has been director of the EG Bührle Collection Foundation in Zurich .

Life

Lukas Gloor was born in Basel in 1952. After finishing school, he studied art history at the Universities of Basel and Bern . He completed his studies with a doctorate on From Böcklin to Cézanne: The Reception of French Impressionism in German-speaking Switzerland . After his first job at the Kunstmuseum Basel , Gloor worked at the Swiss Institute for Art Research from 1980 to 1987 , most recently as assistant to the director Hans A. Lüthy . He then worked as curator of the Segantini Museum in St. Moritz . From 1990 to 1995 he worked as a cultural attaché at the Swiss Consulate General in New York . 2001–2002 he worked as an expert on Swiss art in the Zurich branch of the auction house Sotheby’s . In 2002, he was appointed director of the EG Bührle Collection Foundation in Zurich. In this role he prepares the move of the Bührle Collection to the extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich . Under Gloor's direction, the Bührle Foundation repeatedly published archive material on provenance history and thus made a significant contribution to the scientific processing of the collection. At the same time, he organized the Bührle Foundation's collection presentations at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2010, in Cologne in 2016, in Lausanne in 2017 and in Japan in 2018. In addition, Gloor has been President of the Oskar Kokoschka Foundation since 2015 .

Publications

  • Peinture non figurative de 1900 a 1945 en Suisse , booklet accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Université de Lausanne, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich 1980.
  • From Böcklin to Cézanne: The Reception of French Impressionism in German-speaking Switzerland , dissertation, Lang, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-261-03572-2 .
  • The guest book of the Henneberg Gallery in Zurich , article in the yearbook of the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich 1986, ISSN 0258-9524.
  • Albert Welti: 1862-1912 , Gut, Stäfa 1987, ISBN 3-85717-041-7 .
  • Karl Hügin , Wolfsberg, Zurich 1987, ISBN 978-3-85997-010-6 , together with Silvia Volkart.
  • The history of the Basler Kunstverein and the Kunsthalle Basel: 1839–1988; 150 years between patriotic art care and modern exhibitions , Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 1989.
  • Ferdinand Hodler: Max Schmidheiny Collection , publication for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-908184-88-6 , together with Marcel Baumgartner.
  • In the light of French-speaking Switzerland, Oskar Reinhart as a collector of art from Western Switzerland , exhibition catalog Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur, Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-908196-01-9 , together Alberto de Andres.
  • The revisions and works 1994–2003, Max Hari , Stämpfli, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-7272-1096-6 .
  • Van Gogh - real, wrong: two self-portraits from the Emil Bührle Collection Exhibition catalog, EG Bührle Collection Foundation, Zurich 2005.
  • Foundation EG Bührle Collection Zurich , collection catalog Foundation EG Bührle Collection, Linea d'ombra Libri, Zurich 2005, ISBN 88-87582-88-2 , together with Marco Goldin.
  • In dialogue: the two collections of Oskar Reinhart Winterthur , catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur 2009.
  • The Swiss participation in the Cologne Sonderbund exhibition in 1912 - Mission Moderne: the show of the century of the Sonderbund , catalog for the exhibition in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Wienand, Cologne 2012, ISBN 3-86832-111-X .
  • Between national antiquarian and international modern art care: Art collections in Switzerland 1890–1940 in art without a history: aesthetically motivated collecting in Europe and America , Hirrmer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2184-1 .
  • Edvard Munch and the Esche family: the portraits, the collection , Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85881-544-6 , together with Christian Klemm.
  • Like the father, not at all the son, Theodor and Oskar Reinhart, collecting art in very different ways , article in Glänzende EigenArt , Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 8-3-7774-2763 -8.
  • Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bührle collection: Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh ... , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Fondation de l'Hermitage, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne 2017, ISBN 978-2-88453-207 -5 , together with Sylvie Wuhrmann.
  • Calme et exaltation: Van Gogh dans la Collection Bührle , catalog for the exhibition in the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Foundation EG Bührle Collection and Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles 2017, ISBN 979-10-94966-06-8 .

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SURNAME Gloor, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel