Michel Thévoz

Emilienne Farny : Portrait of Michel Thévoz (1996)

Michel Thévoz (* 1936 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss art historian . He is an expert in art brut , honorary professor at the University of Lausanne and founding director of the Collection de l'Art brut in Lausanne.

Live and act

After studying literature at the University of Lausanne, Michel Thévoz studied at the École du Louvre in Paris. As an art historian and conservator , he worked part-time at the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne . In 1976 he took over the management of the newly founded Musée de l'Art brut. In 2001 he gave up this position in favor of his successor and former student Lucienne Peiry .

In addition to Art Brut, Michel Thévoz deals in his publications and essays with boundaries and transgressions: academicism , the art of the mentally ill, suicide , and spiritualism .

Thévoz was married to the artist Emilienne Farny , who died in 2014 .

Publications

• Kind of Brut . Skira, Geneva 1975. ISBN 978-2-605-00307-5 .

  German translation: Art Brut. Art beyond art. AT-Verlag, Aarau 1990. ISBN 978-3-85502-386-8 .

• The langage de la rupture . Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), Paris, 1978. ISBN 978-2-13-035633-2 .
• Les écrits bruts . PUF, Paris, 1979. ISBN 978-2-13-035870-1 .
• L'académisme et ses fantasmes . Ed. de Minuit, Paris 1980. ISBN 978-2-7073-0318-9 .
• Art, foil, LSD, graffiti, etc. L'Aire, Lausanne 1985. ISBN 978-2-88108-472-0 .
• L'écrit, le signe: autour de quelques dessins d'ecrivains , with Annie Cohen, Bernard Noel. Paris, BPI 1991. ISBN 978-2-902706-49-5 .
• Martin Luther, l'inventeur de la solitude , with Frédéric Pajak. L'Aire, Vevey 1997. ISBN 978-2-88108-459-1 .
• Dubuffet . Skira, Geneva 1986, new edition 1998. ISBN 978-2-605-00087-6 .
• Le théâtre du crime. Essai sur la peinture de David. Ed. de Minuit, Paris 1989. ISBN 978-2-7073-1312-6 .
• Art Brut, psychose et médiumnité. La Différence, Paris 1990. ISBN 978-2-7291-1267-7 .
• Requiem pour la folie . La Différence, Paris 1995. ISBN 978-2-7291-1115-1 .
• "Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne", German translation, Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich 2001. ISBN 3-908196-04-3
• L'esthetique du suicide. Ed. de Minuit, Paris 2003. ISBN 978-2-7073-1852-7 .
• Tout va bien . Favre, Lausanne 2004. ISBN 978-2-8289-0796-9 .
• Dubuffet & l'Art Brut , with Jean-Hubert Martin, Lucienne Peiry, Mattijs Visser. 5 Continents, Milan 2005. ISBN 978-88-7439-226-1 .
• L'Heure d'hiver . Favre, Lausanne 2008. ISBN 978-2-8289-0951-2 .
• Le corps peint . Skira, Geneva 1984.

  German translation: The painted body . Zurich, Opinion AG 1990. ISBN 978-3-85504-097-1 .

• Jacqueline Oyex . Infolio, Gollion 2011. ISBN 978-2-88474-624-3 .
• Émilienne Farny et l'oiseau noir . Lausanne, art & fiction, 2015. ISBN 978-2-940377-89-3

Web links

• Biography at the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne