Regina Marxer

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Regina Marxer (born October 10, 1951 in Grabs , Switzerland ) is a Liechtenstein graphic designer and visual artist .

Life

Regina Marxer is one of the three daughters of the teacher and long-time director of the Liechtenstein National Museum , Felix Marxer , and his wife Melitta , geb. Emperor. After attending secondary school , she completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer with Louis Jäger in Vaduz from 1966 to 1970 . From 1974 to 1978 she attended the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin . Also Clément Moreau was one of their teachers.

Since 1979 she has been working as a freelance artist in the fields of painting , sculpture , graphics and installation . She had solo and group exhibitions in Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland. As a graphic artist, she became known in particular for her designs for stamps for the Principality of Liechtenstein.

In 1981, together with the psychologist Barbara Rheinberger, Marxer initiated the “ Sleeping Beauty Campaign ” and with this women's initiative successfully campaigned for the introduction of women's suffrage in Liechtenstein.

Together with Myriam Bargetze, Monika Michels, Stefan Sprenger and Martin Walch, she founded the artists' association “Shift Change” in 1989 in the old weaving mill in Triesen , of which she was first president until 1997. The association promotes supra-regional networking and provides artists from home and abroad with changing rooms. Since it was founded, he has been running a space for new art in Triesen. The founding of the association contributed to the strong expansion of the Liechtenstein art scene.

For the newly built Obergufer schoolhouse in Triesenberg , Marxer created the computer installation Herr Ehrengast in 1995 - the deer with the talking eyes that utters texts in the Walser dialect. Another example of Marxer's contributions to art in architecture is her work of art Gras , a floor-level metal channel in the paving on the forecourt of the Liechtenstein National Archives in Vaduz.

Regina Marxer lives and works in Vaduz.

Awards and honors (selection)

  • In 1991, Marxer was the first woman to receive the Josef Gabriel von Rheinberger Prize , which has been awarded by the municipality of Vaduz since 1976.
  • Her stamp design “Das Plankner Fülle” in the “Sagen und Legenden” series from 1997 was awarded the “Gran premio d'Asiago per il migliore francobollo Europa” philately for the most beautiful European stamp .

Publications

as an author
  • with Claudine Kranz, Iren Nigg: May . Verlag I. Nigg, Schaan 1987, OCLC 891916260 .
  • with Hansjörg Quaderer: Reading is speaking with the eyes . Edition Eupalinos, Schaan 1995, OCLC 867783133 .
  • Nothing is what it seems . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-86600-021-6 .
as an illustrator
  • Max Waibel (Hrsg.): The big book of the Walser sagas . Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7193-1548-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Ernst Wanger: From women's studies to women's suffrage in Switzerland and Liechtenstein . In: International association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings (ed.): Writings of the association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings . tape 122 . Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-1710-3 , p. 154 .
  2. ↑ Regina Marxer: Reading is speaking with the eyes . Ed .: Edition Eupalinos. 1995 ( online [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Schoolhouse celebrates its 20th anniversary. In: Liechtenstein Fatherland . May 16, 2015, accessed July 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Archive location. Foundation Documentation Art in Liechtenstein, June 27, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 (with a picture of the work of art in front of the State Archives).
  5. ↑ Awards. In: Philately Liechtenstein. Retrieved July 20, 2019 (with brand image).
personal data
SURNAME Marxer, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein graphic designer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabs , Switzerland