Stanislaus von Moos

Stanislaus von Moos (born July 23, 1940 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss art historian and architecture theorist .

Act

After a year of architecture , von Moos studied art history at the University of Zurich, wrote for newspapers and curated exhibitions. a. with Hans Curjel . After his first teaching assignments at Harvard , Bern and New York, he received a professorship for art history at the TU Delft and was finally appointed to the newly created chair for modern and contemporary art in Zurich in 1983 , where he taught until his retirement in 2005. He then lectured in Mendrisio as well as in Yale (2010–2014) and in Lausanne (2016). In 1997 he was Jean Labatut Visiting Professor at Princeton .

In 1968 he published Le Corbusier - Elements of a Synthesis , a later a. a. Standard work on urban planners and painters, translated into French and English . In 1971, together with Hans Reinhard , he founded the specialist journal Archithese, which still exists today . He has published other works on the political iconography of Italian Renaissance architecture, the history of design in Switzerland and the American architects Venturi, Scott Brown & Ass. He curated exhibitions a. a. on Esprit Nouveau, on the architecture of Venturi & Rauch, and (as co-curator) on Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. In 2004 he published Not Disneyland , a collection of essays on Swiss architecture and art in the 20th century . Stanislaus von Moos' uncle was the Lucerne painter Max von Moos . His wife is the sculptor Irene von Moos .

literature

• Philip Ursprung: Without fear of contact . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 168 of July 23, 2010, p. 16.
• Karin Gimmi, Christof Kübler et al .: SvM - Die Festschrift . gta Verlag, Zurich 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stanislaus von Moos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stanislaus von Moos. In: arch INFORM .
• Short biography and reviews of works by Stanislaus von Moos at perlentaucher.de