Rolf Iseli

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Rolf Iseli (born January 22, 1934 in Bern ) is a Swiss painter and graphic artist .

Life

Rolf Iseli was born in Bern on January 22, 1934. He attended the arts and crafts school in Bern from 1950 to 1954 and trained as a lithographer . After completing his training, he received a scholarship to spend one year in Paris in 1955 . In France he made contact with young American artists such as Sam Francis and others. In 1957 Iseli had his first solo exhibition in the “Galerie 33” in Bern . In 1961 Rolf Iseli bought a plot of land in Saint-Romain (Burgundy) in France and from then on lived alternately there and in Bern.

From 1962 to 1976 Iseli went on study trips to New York , Moscow and China . Rolf Iseli currently lives and works in Bern and Saint-Romain.

He lives in Bern and Saint-Romain , Burgundy , France .

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Rolf Iseli is one of the most important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in Switzerland in the post-war period.

Until 1966, Iseli mainly painted oil paintings in the Informel style . After 1966 there were no more oil paintings, only lithographs, copperplate engravings, watercolors and collages. From 1969 he also made cast iron objects with three-dimensional room design. From 1971 onwards he created works as "material painting" and his "earth pictures", in which he used sand and earth, as well as rushes and nails (e.g. "Big Cake", 1971). From the mid-1970s onwards, he produced many large-format prints.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • 1957 Drawing in the work of young Swiss artists, Kunsthalle Bern / “La peinture abstraite en Suisse”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Neuchâtel
  • 1958 Non-representational painting in Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Kongresshalle Berlin
  • 1959 documenta 2 , Kassel / 1ère Biennale de Paris, Paris
  • 1961 Pittsburg International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pittsburgh ; United States
  • 1963 7th Biennale, São Paulo
  • 1968 History of Collage, Zurich Museum of Decorative Arts
  • 1969 222 young Swiss2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1970 “The thing as an object”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg , Sonja-Henie-Niels-Onstad Foundation Oslo
  • 1971 “Swiss Drawings in the 20th Century”, Kunstmuseum Winterthur , State Collection of Graphics, Munich Art Museum, Bern Art Museum
  • 1972 documenta 5 , Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department
  • 1975 13th Biennale, São Paulo / Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 1976 Drawing now, Kunsthaus Zürich
  • 1977 L'identité et ses visages, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne
  • 1978 Start of Tachism in Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zürich / Kunstverein Braunschweig
  • 1979 Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1980 Printed Art. A view of two decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1981 Le dessin Suisse 1970-1980, Musée Rath , Geneva, Tel Aviv
  • 1985 L'Autoportrait à l'âge de la photographie, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 7 Apocalypse, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • 1986 Construction and gesture: Swiss art of the 50s, Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe , Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Münster , Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen / With an enlarged eye, Art Museum Bern
  • 1989 Dimension: petit, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne / Gesichte, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
  • 1991 de Klee à Iseli, Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim, Geneva 1995 Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole / A chacun sa montagne, Musée Jenisch, Vevey
  • 1998 Five Swiss in Russia, Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg , Moscow Manege / Tyrolean Folk Museum, Innsbruck
  • 2000 15th Triennial Original Prints Grenchen, Kunsthaus Grenchen
  • 2001 Since Kandinsky a Pollock, Museo cantonale d'arte Lugano / “Au rendez-vous des amis 2”, Mamco Geneva
  • 2002 Europe-wide. Art of the 1960s, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
  • 2003 Peter Stein, Rolf Iseli, Alois Lichtsteiner, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 2006 Sam Francis and Bern. Sam Francis, Samuel Buri, Franz Fedier, Rolf Iseli, Peter Stein, Kunstmuseum Bern
Solo exhibitions
  • 1957 "Gallery 33" in Bern
  • 1960 Riehentor Gallery, Basel
  • 1972 Raeber Gallery, Lucerne
  • 1974 Ulm Museum
  • 1975 Cabinet des estampes, Geneva / Die Druckgraphisches Werk, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 1976 De Moorian, 's-Hertogenbosch , Holland
  • 1977 Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon
  • 1978 Kunsthaus Zürich / Kunstverein Braunschweig
  • 1982 Périgord 1980/81, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 1983 Rolf Iseli, Georg Baselitz, Monumental Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1984/85 Sprengel Museum, Hanover / Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein / New Gallery of the City of Linz
  • 1985 Estampes monumentales, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva
  • 1987 Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
  • 1988 Overbeck Society , Lübeck / Graphic Collection of the ETH, Zurich
  • 1989 Black and White, prints, Wilhelm Hack Museum and Municipal Art Collections, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • 1990 Rothe Gallery, Frankfurt am Main , Philip Gallery, Paris Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
  • 1992 Gallery Philip et Center Culturel Suisse, Paris
  • 1993-2005 Galerie Krugier- Ditesheim, Geneva (93, 99, 05) Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
  • 1996 Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Zurich
  • 1996-2001 Galerie Ditesheim, Neuchâtel , Kunsthalle Burgdorf
  • 1997 Arte Fiera, Bologna
  • 2001 The Hubert Goote Gallery, Zug
  • 2002 Kornfeld Gallery, Zurich
  • 2003 Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 2006 House of Art St. Josef, Solothurn
  • 2009/10 Kunstmuseum Bern
Publicly owned works
  • The school of Sarandschasch of the Sent parish received a number of lithographs by Rolf Iseli from Max Huggler , which are exhibited in the multi-purpose hall and classrooms.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Representation of the community of Sent , accessed on August 13, 2009

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Iseli, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern