Markus Raetz
Markus Raetz (born June 6, 1941 in Bern ; † April 14, 2020 there ) was a Swiss painter , sculptor and photographer .
life and work
Raetz grew up in Büren an der Aare in an art-friendly family. Even as a schoolboy, he assisted a local artist during the holidays. From 1957 to 1961 he attended the state teachers' seminars in Münchenbuchsee and Bern, after which he taught as a primary school teacher in Brügg near Biel . Since 1963 he has been a freelance artist. He lived in Bern from 1963 to 1969, where he was in contact with Harald Szeemann , the director of the Kunsthalle Bern and his assistant Jean-Christophe Ammann . From 1969 to 1973 he lived and worked in Amsterdam and from 1973 to 1976 in Carona in the canton of Ticino . In 1970 he married Monika Müller, their daughter Aimée was born in 1972. In 1977 the family returned to Bern. 1981 to 1982 he lived in Berlin on a DAAD scholarship .
Raetz was one of the most renowned Swiss contemporary artists. At the beginning of his artistic work he took part in documenta 4 in 1968 and in documenta 5 in 1972 and was represented in Harald Szeemann's legendary exhibition When Attitudes Become Form in the Kunsthalle Bern in 1969 . Raetz dealt with the phenomena of perception in his works, which he carried out in a wide variety of materials and media. The focus was not on what was depicted, but on the way it was received. He encouraged the viewer to interact, because many of the artist's works are only accessible through the movement of the viewer in front of the work. In 2004 Raetz was awarded the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize and in 2006 the Prix Meret Oppenheim .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1968: documenta 4 , Kassel
- 1969: Kunsthalle Bern , When Attitudes Become Form
- 1972: documenta 5 , Kassel; Art Museum Basel
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
- 1979: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- 1982: Kunsthalle Basel
- 1986: Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne; Kunsthaus Zurich ; Moderna Museet , Stockholm
- 1988: Venice Biennale (Swiss Pavilion)
- 2001: Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
- 2004: Kunstmuseum Bern , Toni Gerber collection
- 2006: Carré d'art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes (France); Kunsthaus Zürich , The Expanded Eye ; Wolfsburg Art Museum , Swiss Made 1
- 2008: Kunsthalle Bern, NO LEFTOVERS
- 2012: Kunstmuseum Basel , drawings
- 2014: Kunstmuseum Bern , Markus Raetz. Graphic arts, sculptures.
Works in public collections (selection)
- Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum of Contemporary Art
- Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
- Art Museum Bern
- Solothurn Art Museum
- Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York
- Schaulager , Basel
- Art collection Center PasquArt Biel
Movies
- The Naples Frieze - an argonautical journey with the camera through the work of Markus Raetz, directed by Gaudenz Meili , 1988
- The film Markus Raetz by Iwan Schumacher
Web links
- Literature by and about Markus Raetz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Urs Stahel: Markus Raetz. In: Sikart
- Materials by and about Markus Raetz in the documenta archive
- Catalog of the important retrospective of drawings, 2012/13 at the Kunstmuseum Basel, with contributions by Anita Haldemann, Toni Hildebrandt, Stephan Kunz and Didier Semin
- Works by Markus Raetz on www.creativtv.net
Individual evidence
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↑ Markus Raetz has died
Raetz, Markus. In: sikart.ch. April 15, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 . - ↑ Kathan Brown: Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood - Painters and Sculptors, Crown Point Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8118-0469-1 .
- ↑ The enigmatic Raetz. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
- ^ Entry on Raetz, Markus at the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
- ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on April 29, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raetz, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss multimedia artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Büren on the Aare |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2020 |
| Place of death | Bern |