Rolf Winnewisser

Rolf Winewisser, 2018

Rolf Winnewisser (born June 5, 1949 in Niedergösgen , Canton Solothurn ) is a Swiss draftsman , painter , printmaker and object artist .

life and work

Winnewisser grew up in Lucerne and attended the "School for Design" there from 1966 to 1971, from which he completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer. In 1972 he was invited by Harald Szeemann and Jean-Christophe Ammann to take part in documenta 5 in Kassel . From 1972 to 1974 he worked as a draftsman in a project for literacy in Tillabéri , Niger . From 1974 he was a freelance artist with teaching assignments , including at the School of Design and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . As a result, he lived and worked in frequently changing locations, including Lucerne, Zurich, Banjul / Gambia , New York , Schongau , Rome and London . From 1989 to 1995 he lived in Paris, then in Birrwil , Canton Aargau . Today the artist lives and works in Ennetbaden AG.

Scholarships and Awards

• 1972: Federal art grant (also 1978 and 1988)
• 1975: Kiefer-Hablitzel scholarship
• 1983: Vordemberge Gildewart Foundation Prize
• 1989: Manor art award and recognition award from the city of Lucerne
• 2006: Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim of the Federal Office for Culture

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1972: documenta 5 - Individual Mythologies Department , Kassel
• 1975: Kunstmuseum Luzern , Beryll Cristallo (with Aldo Walker )
• 1979: Kunsthalle Basel , Asymmetrical and Reciprocal
• 1982: Mannheimer Kunstverein , Stromern in the picture (with Aldo Walker)
• 1989: Art Museum Solothurn , MAPTRAP WI-WI.R
• 1990: Kunsthalle Luzern , Die Milchstrasse , (with Theo Kneubühler )
• 1990: Kunstmuseum Luzern, See a blob split a blank spot
• 1991: Helmhaus Zurich, double unadjusted neither form nor appearance and yet in relation to both
• 1994: Museum Wiesbaden , artist support foundation Vordemberge-Gildewart
• 2006: Kunstmuseum Bern , traveling with the arts - Stiftung Kunst heute
• 2008: Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau , retrospective split horizon
• 2016: Art (stuff) house , Rapperswil, In focus: Rolf Winnewisser

Works in public collections

• Art Museum Bern
• Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main . Five watercolors, inv. No. 2003/116 to Inv. No. 2003/120, all acquired in 2003 by Jean-Christophe Ammann .
• Lucerne Art Museum
• Solothurn Art Museum
• Kunsthaus Zurich

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Winnewisser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at SIKART (lexicon and database on art in Switzerland)
• Rolf Winnewisser on kunstaspekte.de
• Materials by and about Rolf Winnewisser in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Untitled, 1973, watercolor on paper, 11 × 15 cm, inv. No. 2003/116; Untitled, 1976 watercolor on paper, 11.9 × 24.9 cm, inv. No. 2003/117; Untitled, 1976, watercolor on cardboard, 10.7 × 12 cm, inv. No. 2003/118; Untitled, 1978, watercolor on lined paper, ballpoint pen, pencil. Together with Inv. No. 2003/120 mounted on cardboard 7.7 × 12.7 cm. Inv. No. 2003/119; Untitled, 1978 watercolor on cardboard with a wavy edge, together with inv. No. 2003/119 mounted on cardboard 10.4 × 14.8 cm;