Marianne Eigenheer

Marianne Eigenheer (born April 20, 1945 in Lucerne ; † January 15, 2018 in Basel ) was a Swiss artist .

Life

Before she turned to art, Marianne Eigenheer's career was focused on the music career as a pianist. She received piano lessons as a child (from 1950 to 1964). However, since she wanted to become a composer herself, which was not possible at the moment, she began to draw and paint after graduating from high school . In 1964 she got the teacher license in Aarau and then in 1970 the art teacher diploma at the University of Design and Art , Lucerne and began to work as an artist. From 1973 to 1976 she studied art history, anthropology and psychology at the University of Zurich . From 1971 to 1988 she worked as a research assistant at the Kunstmuseum Luzern with Jean-Christophe Ammann and later with Martin Kunz . In 1987 she had an artist residency in Tokyo and in 2001/2002 the studio of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London.

She was active as a lecturer and art professor at various art colleges: 1994–1996 with a teaching position at the Art Education Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main, 1995–1996 with a substitute professorship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung , Offenbach; 1997–2007 she held a professorship for painting and free graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts , Stuttgart. From 2003 she was director of the ICE Institute for Curatorship and Education at the eca in Edinburgh from 2009 honorary professor there. From 2011 to 2013 she was a tutor at the Royal College of Art in London . Marianne Eigenheer lived in Basel and London.

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Marianne Eigenheer, Untitled, from the series Bilder zur Lage , 1981/1982, watercolor on paper, 15 × 12.5 cm

Marianne Eigenheer's practice comes from drawing, whereby the freely guided line has priority over the flat, painterly dimension. Her drawings are gestural, free lines on paper, in which the spontaneous, unconscious activity - based on the écriture automatique - is combined with conscious decisions regarding form and content. In the 1980s, he produced the important series Bilder zum Lage , postcard-sized drawings. They are semi-abstract forms and “amalgamations of completely different beings”, which borrow from comics, erotic associations, symbolic elements and at the same time contain great dynamism. During this time she also painted large canvases, the Misere des Herzens series with animal silhouettes, human figures and hybrid creatures that seem to float or lie in front of monochrome backgrounds. Eigenheer described the creation of these pictures as follows:

“Once in my life, while I was still in Lucerne, I had a very large studio and then I also painted very large pictures, and from the lines, from these tangled lines that were there first, animals suddenly emerged, my own Astonish. But these animals, or better animal forms, were not important to me as animals, but they literally depicted my physical condition. So whatever animals are: an indication of their own condition. "

Marianne Eigenheer, exhibition view, Les Guédés dansent toujours, The dining room, Bonn, 2012

Later, works on canvas and wall works were added, which are particularly characterized by the use of red, black and gold, mostly as borders, and show amorphous, semi-abstract forms and form developments, such as the murals The Book of 5 Rings by Mushahi, 1991, am Busbahnhof Kiel or Les Guédés dansent toujours, 2012. Her works are always created in series or “blocks”, as she called them. If a series was exhausted, it started with a new topic, materiality or another format. Since 2011 she has been laying several sheets of paper side by side and letting the pen wander over the boundaries of the paper. In this direct graphic work, the relation to the body, the body feeling, the intuitive movement in space became important - whereby Eigenheer saw itself in a continuity with other female artistic positions, as emphasized:

“The music studies have an effect, the movements in space and time. I can make things visible that I couldn't even describe. I already feel related to Maria Lassnig , Louise Bourgeois or Nancy Spero . Perhaps that has to do with the fact that I am in the world with the body of a woman, I anchor myself again with myself with this drawing. "

Marianne Eigenheer, Untitled (triptych), oil pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm, 2015

Parallel to drawing and painting, photography was also of great importance in her practice, although for a long time these recordings were only used for the personal archive to “fix one's gaze” and were rarely shown. Since 2015, photographs have been taken that refer to a pool of lace and embroidery templates from her grandmother's lace shop in Lucerne.

Prizes and awards

• 1975: Press award from the city of Lucerne
• 1980/1981: Federal art grant

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2015: Marianne Eigenheer. Location pictures, Museum Quality Brooklyn, October 17 - November 15, 2015
• 2015: Marianne Eigenheer, Vado Via - excerpts from a drawing life , Museum Quality, Brooklyn, 2. – 30. April 2015
• 2014: Galerie Volker Diehl , Berlin (with Paul Neagu)
• 2013: Bugdahn & Kaimer Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2012: Marianne Eigenheer, sic! - Room for Art, Lucerne January 7, 2011 - February 11, 2012.
• 2012: Das Ding Galerie, Lucerne
• 2012: The dining room, Bonn
• 2011: Sleeper, Edinburgh, UK
• 2003: Sleeper, Edinburgh, UK
• 2000: Marianne Eigenheer. Time-places, local time. Drawings and photography 1979–1999, Lichtstein Körner & Partner, Stuttgart, July 6, 2000 - January 5, 2001
• 1995: Rivolta Gallery, Lausanne
• 1995: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
• 1995: Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich
• 1993: Bugdahn and Kaimer Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 1993: Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
• 1993: Studio Eraarte, Bologna
• 1992: Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
• 1989: Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1988: Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
• 1986: Palazzo, Liestal
• 1985: Marianne Eigenheer, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, January 12 - February 10, 1985
• 1983: Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, Lyon
• 1983: Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn
• 1978: Galerie Loeb, Bern
• 1977: Marianne Eigenheer, Kunstmuseum Luzern, March 27–1 . May 1977.
• 1970: Galerie Stampa , Basel

Publications (selection)

• Jean-Christophe Amman: Marianne Eigenheer. Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, March 27 - May 1, 1977.
• Marianne Eigenheer: Journal Gallery E + F Schneider. Le Landeron, No. 26, 1981.
• Marianne Eigenheer. Schaffhausen Art Association, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, January 12 - February 10, 1985
• Armin Wildermuth: Images of Change (1984). Marianne Eigenheer's Recent Work. In: Marianne Eigenheer. Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 1985.
• Annemarie Monteil: Life track and color game change. In: artist. Critical lexicon of contemporary art. Weltkunst, Bruckmann, Munich 1990.
• Marianne Eigenheer, Stephan Berg, Kunstverein Freiburg e. V. (Ed.): Marianne Eigenheer. Wall works 1991/92. Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Freiburg 1991.
• Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin (Ed.): Marianne Eigenheer. Berlin 1996.
• Marianne Eigenheer, Hans Ulrich Obrist: Conversation between Marianne Eigenheer and Hans Ulrich Obrist. In: sic! Raum für Kunst Luzern (Ed.): LACK. Flying animals, bodies and stars in the sky. No. 3, Maniac Press, Lucerne 2012.
• Yasimin Kunz, Suzi Teo: Marianne Eigenheer. In: Vado Via - excerpts from a drawing life. Exhibition catalog, ed. by Museum Quality, Brooklyn 2015.
• Suzi Teo: Marianne Eigenheer. Pictures of the location. Exhibition catalog, edited by Museum Quality. Brooklyn 2015.

Works in collections

• Art Museum , Basel
• Lucerne Art Museum
• Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• Swiss National Bank, Bern
• New gallery at the Joanneum, Graz
• Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• "Deep Views" collection, Darmstadt
• Amelio Collection, Naples
• Swiss Mobiliar, Bern
• Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
• Ludwig Collection, Forum for International Art, Aachen
• Collection Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
• Nouveau Musée Collection, Villeurbanne, Lyon
• UBS New York City, New York, NY
• UBS Switzerland
• Swiss Confederation, Switzerland
• Credit Suisse, Berlin and New York City, NY
• CSS, Lucerne
• State Gallery Stuttgart
• Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Bury, Mancheste, UK
• Art Museum, Beijing

Web links

Commons : Marianne Eigenheer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Barbara Wucherer: Marianne Eigenheer. In: Sikart
• Silvia Henke: The obstinacy of the private army. Tageswoche.ch, February 3, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2018.
• origin.arch.ethz.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Academy mourns the loss of Prof. Marianne Eigenheer. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, January 23, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Marianne Eigenheer, Hans Ulrich Obrist: Flying animals, bodies and stars in the sky . Ed .: LACK, sic! Room for Art Lucerne. No. 3 . Maniac Press, Lucerne 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Marianne Eigenheer, Stephan Berg: Marianne Eigenheer. Wall works 1991/92 . Ed .: Kunstverein Freiburg e. V. Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Freiburg 1991, p. 24 .
4. ↑ Galerie Marianne Grob, Berlin (ed.): Marianne Eigenheer . Berlin 1996, p. 8 .
5. ↑ Landis & Gyr Foundation | All studio guests. (No longer available online.) Lg-stiftung.ch, archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; Retrieved March 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ICE Institute for Curatorship and Education at the eca in Edinburgh ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Sculpture Staff. (No longer available online.) Royal College of Art, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved March 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Barbara Wucherer: Marianne Eigenheer. In: Sikart
9. ^ Armin Wildermuth: Bilder der Wandlung (1984). On a group of works by Marianne Eigenheer . In: Museum zu Allerheiligen (Ed.): Marianne Eigenheer . Schaffhausen 1985.
10. ↑ sic! Space for art - detail. sic-raum.ch, accessed on March 5, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Les Guédés dansent toujours | Marianne Eigenheer »The dining room | Space for art +. dasesszimmer.com, accessed March 5, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Marianne Eigenheer - Kunstmuseum Luzern. (No longer available online.) Kunstmuseum Luzern, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved March 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.