Margaretha Dubach
Margaretha Dubach (born December 23, 1938 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss object, installation and performance artist. She creates sculptures, installations, jewelry, collages, drawings, murals, illustrations and works as a painter . She was also director of the Musée Bizarre in Rieden bei Baden AG .
Life
Dubach was born and raised in Lucerne. From 1955 to 1960 she attended the Lucerne School of Design . From 1963 until his death in 2019 she was married to the psychiatrist and author Jürg Willi , with whom she has two sons. She lives and works in Zurich and spends time on her country estate in Provence, a former monastery where objects and poems were created. After starting out in painting, she is particularly active in object art and works with found materials. She works with tools, shoes, sheets of paper, fabrics, bones, plant materials from Europe, America and Africa and transforms emotionally charged objects into works of art.
Exhibitions
Margaretha Dubach has her works in solo exhibitions in galleries in Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The most important exhibitions were:
- Solo exhibitions at Galerie Krebs, Bern, 2007, 2001, 1995, 1990, 1987
- Solo exhibitions at the Esther Hufschmid Gallery, Zurich, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1995, 1990, 1986
- Heaven, hell, purgatory , figures and masks on the theme of death. Swiss National Museum, Zurich and Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Cologne, 1994
- Livre sans paroles , Musée des Arts décoratifs, Lausanne, 1987
- Books without words , Belleville Museum Zurich, 1986
- Object art from Duchamp to today , Kunsthaus Zug, 1985
- Solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1985
- ART 11/80 (1980) ART 15/84 (1984) and ART 16/85 (1985) Basel, solo exhibition at Galerie Liatowitsch, Basel
- Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979 and 1980
- Art Dock Zurich, 2015 and 2016
literature
- Margaretha Dubach: About the hidden stories of things. with the assistance of Tobia Bezzola , Thomas Bonotto, Beat Brechbühl , Alois Maria Haas , Herbert Meier, Niklaus Oberholzer , Jürg Willi , Benteli Verlag, Bern 2011.
- Lilli Binzegger: Margaretha Dubach's cosmos. In: NZZ Folio . April 2003 (online) Retrieved March 5, 2016.
Web links
- Margaretha Dubach's website: http://www.margaretha-dubach.ch
- Niklaus Oberholzer : Dubach, Margaretha. In: Sikart (as of February 28, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dubach, Margaretha - SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland. In: www.sikart.ch. Retrieved March 5, 2016 .
- ^ Margaretha Dubach. In: website of the artist. Retrieved March 5, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubach, Margaretha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willi-Dubach, Margaretha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |