Suzanne Baumann

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Suzanne Baumann, 2006

Suzanne Else Baumann (born April 2, 1942 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist.

Life

Suzanne Baumann is the third of four children of the Swiss silk manufacturer Friedrich Baumann from Schafisheim , Canton Aargau , and the artist Lily Else Hansen from Hellerup, Copenhagen . Baumann spent her childhood in Kilchberg on Lake Zurich.

From 1958 to 1963 she studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester , the Royal College of Art in London , the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and the Zurich School of Applied Arts. From 1963 to 1971 she traveled through Europe, stayed at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome and worked with the artist Meret Oppenheim .

Since 1969 she has lived and worked in an old farmhouse in the Marfeldingen district of Mühleberg near Bern .

In 1970 she founded an agency for design and advertising for international medical congresses and made scientific drawings for university institutes. She travels to Africa, India, Israel, Lebanon, South and North America. In the eighties she founded the music and publishing agency ISIS VOICE and organized concerts with artists such as James Brown , Ray Charles , Solomon Burke and Nina Simone . At the same time, some video recordings and video clips were made at ISIS VOICE: B. "The King of love is dead", a homage to Martin Luther King, together with Nina Simone.

She has shown her works in various museums in Europe.

Works

In 1989, Suzanne Baumann published her first short stories Power and Mystery and gives lectures on "the need for totality".

In the eighties she also created the concept for “the small world exhibition” . This exhibition of 185 works has been presented at various locations since 1992, for example at the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg (1993), at the environmental technology fair "New Earth" in Osaka (1996) and at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (2003) . In 1994 UNESCO in Paris granted patronage to the “small world exhibition” through its general director MF Mayor , which was expanded in 1998 for a “World Peace Tour” together with the singer and pianist Nina Simone .

Since 1995, Suzanne Baumann has made several trips to Eastern Europe. In Belarus she organized several exhibitions of Swiss artists and initiated the first exhibition with original works by Marc Chagall . She also organized exhibitions by Belarusian artists in Switzerland. Out of their desire for exchange and understanding between peoples, the projects of the "Energy Tower" ( "Tower of Synopsis and Love" ) and the "World Garden", which were presented in Wizebsk in 1997 and have since become the project: Nature-Man- Have developed culture .

On the occasion of Kasimir Malevich's 120th birthday celebration in Vitebsk in 1998, an architectural model of the tower project was presented and a manifesto by Suzanne Baumann in Russian translation was presented by Vitebsk artist Vasily Vasilyev.

In 2008, as part of Kazimir Malevich's 130th birthday party and a simultaneous exhibition on the occasion with contemporary artists, a reminder letter and homage from Suzanne Baumann to the artist was read out in Vitebsk.

literature

  • Felix A. Baumann , Fritz Billeter: Fantastic figuration . Exhibition catalog. Zurich Art Society , Helmhaus , Zurich 1969.
  • Hans Rudolf Hilty, Hans Heinz Holz, Paul Nizon (Eds.): Zürcher Almanach , 1972.
  • Suzanne Baumann: Power and Secret: 22 short stories with pictures . Marlene Frei Artist-Books, Zurich / ISISVOICE, Bern 1989 (without ISBN).
  • Joseph Helfenstein: Esther Altorfer . Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Bern , 1989.
    • Finger lifetime enlarger: Suzanne Baumann in dialogue with Esther Altorfer . [on the occasion of the exhibitions: "From one world to the other" Art by outsiders in dialogue: DuMont-Kunsthalle, Cologne, 28.9. - 25.11.1990 and the extended exhibition: Zurich and Bern 1990], Marlene Frei Artist-Books, Galerie & Edition / ISISVOICE, Benteli , Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7165-0764-4 .
    • Roman Buxbaum, Pablo Stähli (eds.): From one world to another: Art by outsiders in dialogue . [DuMont-Kunsthalle Cologne, September 28 to November 25, 1990]. In: DuMont documents . DuMont , Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2448-0 (exhibition catalog).
  • Suzanne Baumann, work collection: Stephan Kunz (Ed.): "Suzanne Baumann" , Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, April 11 to May 31, 1992 / Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau , Kartause Ittingen , November 8, 1992 to January 24, 1993. Edition Howeg, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-85736-112-3 (exhibition catalog).
  • Anneliese Zwez: Suzanne Baumann, aesthetics are a piece of nature . In: Artis , magazine for new art. Hallwag , Bern / Stuttgart 1992.
  • Annelise Zwez: Meret Oppenheim, Esther Altorfer, Suzanne Baumann . Exhibition catalog. Rigassi Gallery, Bern 1992.
  • Elisabeth Grossmann: Small world exhibition by Suzanne Baumann . In: Turicum - Swiss Culture and Economy, Orell Füssli , Zurich 1993, ISSN  0254-3710 .
  • Heinz Neidel: Interview: Suzanne Baumann - I have a germ cell to offer . In: Bateria, magazine for art and literature . No. 15, Nuremberg / Fürth / Erlangen 1994, ISSN  0178-000X .
  • Jury Karashun, Tamara Karandasheva: Suzanne Baumann . Exhibition catalog. National Art Museum, Minsk 1995.
  • Wladimir Boyko: Portrait of Suzanne Baumann. In: Euro Style , No. 2, Minsk 1995
  • Tamara Karandasheva, Nikolaj Progranovsky: Modern Belarusian graphics . Exhibition catalog. Winterthur Trade Museum, 1996.
  • Hans Eggenberger, Jury Karashun: Swiss original graphics . Exhibition catalog. Belarusian National Art Museum, Minsk 1995.
  • Ludmilla Khmelnitskaia: Suzanne Baumann . In: Vitebski Cshitak . No. 2, 1996.
  • Stefan Kunz, Beat Wismer: In the realm of drawing . Exhibition catalog. Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau 1998.
  • Larissa Michnewitch: A project that leads into the future . In: Vitebsk Courier . June 19, 1998.
  • Wasili Wasiljev: The energy of the city . In: Vitebsk Courier June 19, 1998.
  • Irina Matac: Suzanne Baumann, a revolutionary from Switzerland . In: Belarus Gazette . No. 6, Minsk 2001.
  • Cynthiya Gavranic: Playroom , Art and Childhood . Exhibition catalog. Coninx Museum , Zurich 2001.
  • Russian Museum St. Petersburg (ed.): Suzanne Baumann - The small world exhibition . St. Petersburg / Bern 2003, ISBN 3-935298-61-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumann, Suzanne Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich