Swiss Institute for Art Research
The Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) is a research and documentation center for art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein .
history
The institute was founded in 1951 by the art historian Marcel Fischer (1906–1962) in Zurich . From 1963 to 1994 Hans A. Lüthy was head of SIK-ISEA. In the thirty years of its management, it gained international recognition. At his instigation, the institute was accepted into the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1971. In 1981, SIK-ISEA was recognized by the Swiss Federal Council as an eligible research institution .
The head office is located in the Villa Bleuler in Zurich's Zollikerstrasse. The villa with garden, built by the architect Friedrich Bluntschli on behalf of Colonel Hermann Bleuler-Huber from 1885 to 1888 , was fundamentally remodeled from 1989 to 1994. Today the institute's offices are located on the upper floors. The representative rooms are located on the ground floor of the villa. The institute's library, which is open to the public, was set up in an underground extension, while the restoration and photo studio is located in a new building on the formerly terraced site. Since 1988 the institute has had a branch at the University of Lausanne ("Antenne romande") for the Suisse romande . In 2010 SIK-ISEA opened a Ufficio di contatto for Italian-speaking Switzerland in the Museo Vincenzo Vela in Ligornetto . From 1993 to 2010 Hans-Jörg Heusser was director of the institute. On September 1, 2010 the former director of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen , Roger Fayet , took over the management of the institute.
Scientific work
The focus of the scientific work is on research, documentation, knowledge transfer and information in the fields of fine arts and the art business in Switzerland, to which the long-time director Hans A. Lüthy did important development work. The institute is run by the non-profit foundation SIK-ISEA, Anne Keller Dubach is the President of the Board of Trustees. The association for the promotion of SIK-ISEA supports the institute financially and ideally. The Swiss Confederation, the Canton and City of Zurich and other cantons make financial contributions to the non-profit institute . Further resources are raised through fundraising and services.
SIK-ISEA publishes scientific lexicons, books, catalogs and essays on art history and art technology as well as on the art business. Important series are: “Catalogs of works by Swiss artists”, “Catalogs of Swiss museums and collections”, “Museums of Switzerland”, “outlines” and “KUNSTmaterial”.
SIKART digital database
With the Sikart online lexicon , the institute operates a digital text and image database that can be used to query biographical information on all artists with a connection to Switzerland. It contains information on around 16,000 artists, 14,000 illustrations of their works, 1,500 biographical articles as well as video films and digitized documents.
Swiss art archive
The SIK-ISEA Swiss Art Archive is a publicly accessible special archive. It houses two collections: the documentation of artists and art institutions as well as the manuscript archive. The documentation contains dossiers on around 19,000 artists and institutions. The estate archive comprises 200 written estates from Swiss artists, including Giovanni Segantini , Giovanni , Augusto and Alberto Giacometti , Otto Meyer-Amden , Max von Moos and Petra Petitpierre .
Library
The public library is a reference library with a focus on Swiss art and art history and currently comprises 120,000 books, journal volumes and audiovisual media. The holdings can be researched online via the NEBIS union catalog and via artlibraries.net. The rooms were newly created by the architects Arthur Rüegg, Ueli Marbach and Klaus Dolder in the base zone of the villa and refer to Alvar Aalto's library building in Vyborg with the reading recess .
literature
- Annual reports. SIK-ISEA, Zurich (first recorded in 1962).
- Hans A. Lüthy: Swiss Institute for Art Research: Exhibition for the 20th anniversary. Exhibition catalog, Helmhaus , Zurich 1971.
- Hans-Jörg Heusser (Ed.): The Swiss Institute for Art Research in the Villa Bleuler. SIK-ISEA, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-908184-63-0 .
- Urs Hobi (Ed.): Art and Science. The Swiss Institute for Art Research 1951–2010 [Translation from the French (article by Paul-André Jaccard) Regula Krähenbühl]. SIK-ISEA / Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85881-322-0 (Scheidegger & Spiess) / ISBN 978-3-908196-75-4 (SIK-ISEA).
Web links
- Literature from and about the Swiss Institute for Art Research in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Swiss Institute for Art Research
- Database of the Swiss Art Archives
- Information about Villa Bleuler on the website of the City of Zurich
Individual evidence
- ↑ the building of the institute (formerly Villa Bleuler). In: arch INFORM .
- ↑ Quotation from the SIK-ISEA website (publications) ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Admission criteria for Sikart
