Rolf Sachs

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Rolf Sachs (born August 10, 1955 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss artist , designer and set designer .

Life

Rolf Sachs is the son of the industrial heir and photographer Gunter Sachs and his first wife Anne-Marie Faure. Sachs attended the Le Rosey boarding school in the canton of Vaud , where he also met his wife Maryam Banihashem (* 1962) from Tehran, whom he married in 1985. The three children Philipp, Frederik and Roya Sachs came from the marriage. In 2014, he separated from Maryam by mutual agreement. Mafalda von Hessen has officially been his partner since 2015 .

From 1975 he studied economics at the universities of London and San Francisco . He then worked as an investment banker . He has worked as a furniture designer since 1984 and as a set designer since 2006. A large special exhibition with design objects that deal with German virtues took place in 2014 at the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne .

Rolf Sachs has lived in London since 1994 and founded his design studio rolf sachs fun'ction there . According to his own statements, he was influenced by Suprematism , Dadaism , Surrealism , the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and the artist Joseph Beuys . His penchant for chairs led to an extensive collection of chairs that began in the late 1980s.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

"Typical German?" - Museum for Applied Arts in Cologne
  • Typical German? , Museum of Applied Art, Cologne (2014)
  • Camera in Motion , St. Moritz (2014)
  • Heart Shot, Chanf (2012)
  • in-pulse , Studio Visconti, Milan (2011)
  • flawless / imperfection , Studio Visconti, Milan (2010)
  • take 2 , Phillips de Pury, London (2008)
  • etc ... etc ... , Designers Gallery, Cologne (2007)
  • Delicatessen , Project b Gallery, Milan (2007)
  • Wild & Real , Phillips de Pury, London (2006)
  • Duality 2 , Louisa Guinness Gallery, London (2004)
  • Duality , Galleria Mauro Brucoli, London (2004)
  • Galerie Blau, Freiburg (2001)
  • Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne (1999), (1997), (1996), (1995), (1994)
  • Faggionato Fine Arts, London (1997)
  • Gallery Monika Reitz, Frankfurt am Main (1997)
  • Tanit Gallery, Munich (1997)
  • Galleria Internos, Milan (1996), (1995), (1994)
  • Pur Pur, Design Horizonte, Frankfurt am Main (1995)
  • Collection Gallery, London (1994)
  • Mobilia, Nuremberg (1994)
  • Werkhaus, Fuschl am See (1990)
  • Kulturring, Sundern (1990)
  • Wunderhaus, Munich (1990)

Group exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Petra Hesse (Ed.): Rolf Sachs Typically German? , Catalog Museum for Applied Art Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9547605-2-7 , p. 152.
  2. ↑ a b Anna Richardson: The winking designer. Rolf Sachs, son of the playboy Gunter Sachs and successful furniture designer, talks about humor in his work, the beauty of chairs and formative childhood memories . In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 43/2012 , October 21, 2012, Stil, p. 70 .

literature

  • Petra Hesse (Ed.): Rolf Sachs Typically German? , Catalog Museum for Applied Art Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9547605-2-7 , 157 pp.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist, designer and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne