Pierre Haubensak

Pierre Haubensak (1964)

Pierre Haubensak (born June 19, 1935 in Brünig on the Brünig Pass , municipality of Meiringen ) is a Swiss painter, draftsman and printmaker.

Artistic career

Pierre Haubensak grew up as a child of hoteliers in central and western Switzerland. From 1942 to 1951 he attended primary school in Meiringen. This was followed by training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (1951–1952) and at the Basel School of Applied Arts (1952–1958). Haubensak then lived and worked for a long time in Paris (1958–1960), Ibiza (1961–1969) and New York (1969–1977) and in 1977 returned to Zurich, Switzerland. His artistic work is influenced by color field painting and hard edge painting . The first group of works Doors of Perception (1968–1974) consists of panels that evoke a meditative quality. This was followed by more expressive pictures with intense colors in the 1980s. In an intermediate phase, Haubensak renounced the abstract division of his pictures and concentrated on depictions of landscapes until he took up and further developed the principle of evenly dividing the picture surface with his group of works Tetras (from 1988). This also includes the wall friezes in the reading room of the Zurich Central Library . In order to be able to fulfill the requirement that the wall friezes also have to have a sound-absorbing function, Haubensak resorted to a technique with strongly thinned acrylic , which he had already practiced in his time in New York.

Important exhibitions

• Bonnier Gallery, Lausanne (1963)
• Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich (1965)
• Rose Esman Gallery, New York (1974)
• Willard Gallery, New York (1975, 1976)
• Bündner Kunstmuseum , Chur (1983)
• Kunstmuseum Winterthur (1990)
• Helmhaus , Zurich (1996)
• Kunsthaus , Zurich (2002)
• Rosenberg Gallery, Zurich (2008)
• Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich (2014, 2015, 2017)

Works

• Public art collection Basel
• Three-part picture (1980, Basel, station buffet)
• Three-part picture (1980, Basel, urn area, Hörnli cemetery )
• Bündner Kunstmuseum (Chur)
• Musée d'art et d'histoire (Geneva)
• Musée cantonale des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne)
• The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
• Kunsthaus Zurich
• Group of six pictures (1988, Romanshorn, canton school)
• Wortwasserfall (2002/03, Winterthur, City Library )
• Wall frieze (1994, Zurich, reading room of the central library )
• Aargauer Kunsthaus (Aarau)

literature

• New city library in medieval walls . History and present of the new city library and the «Tösserhaus» in Winterthur, In: New Year's sheet from the city library in Winterthur ISSN  0254-3680 . City Library, Winterthur 2003, ISBN 3-908050-22-7 .
• Works on Paper 1977–2002 (exhibition catalog, published for the exhibition Pierre Haubensak - Works on Paper 1981–2002 at the Kunsthaus Zürich from November 8, 2002 to February 16, 2003, editorial team Bernhard von Waldkirch). Benteli, Wabern 2002, ISBN 3-7165-1278-8 .
• Pierre Haubensak (exhibition catalog for the Pierre Haubensak exhibition in the Helmhaus Zurich from February 10 to March 24, 1996, edited by Kathrin Frauenfelder), Helmhaus Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-906396-32-0 .
• Italo Valenti, Matias Spescha, Pierre Haubensak: Exhibition catalog in the Stadthaus Olten , Kunstverein, Olten 1969.

Web links

Commons : Pierre Haubensak  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Beat Stutzer: Haubensak, Pierre. In: Sikart
• Literature by and about Pierre Haubensak in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pierre Haubensak In: Art Credit Collection
• The Wall - Pierre Haubensak - Network 2011–2016 - Turbinenstrasse Zurich-West. Video by Pascale Gmür