Ursula Hirsch (artist)

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Ursula Hirsch or Ursula Hirschi (born August 16, 1952 in Zurich ) is a Swiss sculptor, installation artist, wall painter and curator.

Life

Hirsch Ursula, "HausinHaus", 2008, spruce frame accessible, Kunstkammer AZB Schlieren (ZH).
Ursula Hirsch: "HausinHaus" (5 × 6 × 6 m), installation Kunstkammer AZB Schlieren, 2008. Spruce frame, accessible.
Hirsch Ursula: Installation Kulturpfad Wettingen (CH / AG). Art collection Kt. ZH
Ursula Hirsch: Fixed installation Kulturweg Wettingen (CH / AG), 3.8 × 3 × 6 m, steel métalisé, chrome steel, 6 colored bases. Art collection of the Canton of Zurich.
Hirsch Ursula: "Narcissus", Eisen 89, Dietikon (CH / ZH)
Ursula Hirsch: Narcissus (3 × 6 × 3 m), chrome steel, steel, paint. Installation on the Limmat near Zurich, exhibition Eisen 89 .

Ursula Hirsch is the youngest daughter of the blacksmith Rudolf and the housewife and gardener Johanna Hirschi. She often stayed with grandmother Rosa Leibundgut, who wrote stories and poems. In 1968/1969 he attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts. She worked with emphasis on materials, often ceramic. She was denied further training. She worked as a decorator, fabric and fashion designer, ran a second-hand shop, and set up the Caritas clothing store in Zurich. She has been in partnership with architect Heinz Baumann since 1982. Thanks to a scholarship from the Canton of Zurich, she trained with Zoltin Peeter at the State Art Academy in Enschede, Holland, with a diploma in 1985. The first large-scale sculptural-constructive works were created. In 1986 the figurative-narrative-constructive fountain figure (steel, etc.) was purchased and publicly placed by the Canton of Zurich. In 1987 his son Linus was born and he joined the artists' society GSMBA (now Visarte ). The red installation , a sequence of geometrical body figures, was shown in 1988/1989 in St. Gallen, Zurich, Lucerne and Enschede.

In 1989 she received the invitation to the Swiss overview exhibition Eisen 89 and showed Narcissus - air cube on the Limmat. Hirsch participated in open-air exhibitions in Môtiers, Bex, Bad Ragaz, Wettingen and the like. a. In 1994 she created her first wall painting with color accords (Bildungszentrum Zürichsee / Stäfa). She became a member of the Zurich Sculptors Working Group (AZB). She created figurative-architectural sculptures in wood based on her own body mass (seat sculptures, house-in-house installations). Hirsch won several art in building competitions , including a. Primary school Zurich-Höngg ( sowing and harvesting , 1996, conversion / renovation 2013). In 1997/1998 she undertook a postgraduate course in “ Art in Architecture ” with P. Jenny at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH Zurich ). She designed using materials from the construction industry. In 2004/2005 she continued her education in fresco technology at the Centro Europeo in Venice. This is used in the senior citizens' center in Zug-Oberwil , 2005 (13 wall paintings / 10 rooms / 9 floors). Sometimes there was a turn to biographical works, u. a. in Karussell (2009/10), a large-format, funnel-shaped blacksmith work with the inclusion of dried plants (homage to father Rudolf). The result was a collaboration with master blacksmith Ueli Weidmann. She had an exhibition in the "Zimmermannshaus" in Brugg. In 2009/2010 she was curator of the AZB exhibition cube in Schlieren near Zurich, with a catalog after graduation. In 2011/2014/2017 she worked as artist in residence at the Kartause Ittingen (Thurgau). She undertook three-dimensional experiments with dress and body shapes (wood / fabric / plants). A retrospective of his own work was created in the form of four or six richly illustrated booklets on various groups of works, topics that run through 45 years of work (publication 2013/2015 in Edition Hirschbaum). Since 2016 she has been designing ceramic works (figurative) in installative interior settings.

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Characteristic of Ursula Hirsch's work are recurring, constantly intensifying themes; especially light and shadow (matter and cavity, presence and reflex, rhythmic color accords), but also the mass of one's own body as parameters. Furthermore, the localization in social and / or scientific fields of thought (the cycle of nature, human coexistence, etc.). The sculptural, communication-oriented seating furniture for two to four people should be mentioned as an example.

Another characteristic feature is the craftsmanship aimed at precision, be it through in-house work or cooperation with specialists. The choice of material is always part of the artistic statement, in combination with the proportions of the work and the color design. Metal, wood, glass, rubber, textiles, clay, paint and, more recently, plant artifacts are used in particular. The plastic (sculpture, relief, object) and the spatial, installative dominate, but flat media such as photography, drawing, printing techniques and (less often) audio elements (e.g. Kunsthalle Wil 1992) are also part of Ursula Hirsch's working method . Stylistically, the work oscillates between associative-narrative content (see Die Brunnenfigur 1986) and formal, constructive-geometric reduction (see sculpture Kulturweg Wettingen, 1991/2017 or Narziss , Eisen 89 ). The latter is divided into linear concepts, but also from architecture and the construction industry through the use of reinforcing iron, steel girders, etc., the design of walls with repetitively patterned wallpaper, rooms, room skeletons or - on the contrary - entire (model) houses. Linear conversions can be found e.g. B. in strict costumes made of colored ribbons. Individual works and what has been assembled into installations mix together. Since the 1990s, the inclusion of the movement takes place, be it with fans or in installations with wind-guided panels (z. B. seas , Thalwil, 2015).

Prices

(27 Cf. edition hirschbaum vol. 1 fountain figure , pages 38/39)

  • 1982: Foreign scholarship from the Canton of Zurich
  • 1986: Federal grant (today: Swiss Art Award )
  • 1987/1988/1989: Scholarships from the Canton of Zurich
  • 1996–2013: Grants from the Cassinelli Vogel Foundation, the Dr. Adolf Streuli Foundation, the STEO Foundation, the Culture Fund (BAK), the Ernst Göhner Foundation , the Georges and Jenny Bloch Foundation, the Canton of Zurich, the cities of Schlieren , Thalwil

Publications (selection)

  • 1989: Catalog Eisen 89 - Perspektiven Schweizer Eisenplastik 1934–1989. ISBN 3-907495-02-0 , pp. 64/65, 190.
  • 1989: Catalog of the Swiss sculpture exhibition Môtiers. Edition d'en Haut, La Chaux-de-Fonds, ISBN 2-88251-008-X , pp. 72/73.
  • 1992: Kunsthalle Wil , brochure for the exhibition Ursula Hirschi, sheet music . Text: Frank Nievergelt.
  • 1993: Catalog 5e Triennale de sculpture contemporaine, Bex (VD). Edition Bex & Arts , pp. 62/63.
  • 2000: analogy to a life of 84 years. (Infin, Pube, Adola, Matura, Universal, Medio, Vortex, Neo, Pleno, Eco, Libero, Testament). 17 postcards with performance-like chair sculptures and a text booklet (Hannes Böhringer, Bernd Rosemeyer, Doris Paschiller, Annelise Zwez). Self-published by Ursula Hirsch.
  • 2010: AZB for ever - the working group of Zurich sculptors as an organism. Catalog for the exhibition in the Helmhaus Zurich . Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85881-314-5 .
  • 2013/2015: 6 color illustrated topic booklets (50 to 64 pages) in box. Edition hirschbaum.
    • Vol. 1: The fountain figure. Texts by Annelise Zwez and Ursula Hirsch. ISBN 978-3-9524117-0-4 .
    • Vol. 2: Le pain urbain - Maturité. Texts by Annelise Zwez, Rudolf Hauschka, Martin Albers, Peter Jenny, Ursula Hirsch, Kathrin Frauenfelder. ISBN 978-3-9524117-1-1 .
    • Vol. 3: Parabola Hyperbola - Energy. Texts / poems by Kathrin Frauenfelder, Ursula Hirsch, Zoltin Peeter. ISBN 978-3-9524117-2-8 .
    • Vol. 4: wall. Texts by Fritz Billeter, Ursula Hirsch. ISBN 978-3-9524117-3-5 .
    • Vol. 5: Orientation. Texts Gottfried Schatz, Kathrin Frauenfelder, Sabine Arlitt. ISBN 978-3-9524117-5-9 .
    • Vol. 6: dorongdorong. Texts by Ursula Hirsch, Sabine Arlitt, Frank Nievergelt. ISBN 978-3-9524117-6-6 .

Works in collections / art in buildings

(28 Cf. edition hirschbaum, Vol. 1 Brunnenfigur , pages 38/39)

  • Rapperswil, Zeughaus , Peter Bosshard Collection.
  • Steinen SZ , retirement and nursing home, wall painting, 2000.
  • Unteriberg , retirement and nursing home, color fields, 2004/2010.
  • Wettingen , Kulturweg / Kloster, space sculpture (metal), 1991/2017.
  • Wetzikon , Cantonal School, Mandala , Metal / Neon, 1987.
  • Zollikerberg , UBS , temporary installation over 2 floors, metal, neon, wood, concrete, plexi, 1989–2007.
  • Zurich , City and Canton Zurich Collection.
  • Zurich- Höngg , primary school, sowing and harvesting , installation in the outdoor area, colored metal, multi-part, 1996/2011.
  • Zurich, Sozialwerk Arche, purchase of a convertible couchet.

literature

  • Annelise Zwez: Ursula Hirsch Zurich. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Volume 73, De Gruyter (formerly KG Saur), 2012, p. 339. Digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Issue 2 le pain urbain - Maturité , Edition Hirschbaum, pp. 38–41.
  2. ↑ General Künstlerlexikon Saur / degruyter, Volume 73, p. 339).
  3. ↑ Ursula Hirsch ch: Contact. In: ursulahirsch.ch. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
  4. ^ Art collection of the Canton of Zurich online, Hirsch Ursula
  5. ↑ Visarte | Members In: visarte.ch , accessed on February 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Special issue edition hirschbaum, Vol. 1 Die Brunnenfigur , pp. 26/27 + p. 38. Also http://www.ursulahirsch.ch/
  7. ↑ Cat. Eisen 89 - Perspektiven Schweizer Eisenplastik 1934–1989 , pp. 64/65, 190.
  8. ↑ http://www.ursulahirsch.ch/permanent.html or http://www.ursulahirsch.ch/Wallpaper.html
  9. ^ AZB Arbeitsgemeinschaft Zürcher Bildhauer - Ursula Hirsch In: plastiker.ch , accessed on February 13, 2019.
  10. ↑ Special issue edition hirschbaum, Vol. 2 le pain urbain - Maturité , pp. 22–40.
  11. ↑ Special issue edition hirschbaum, Vol. 2 le pain urbain - Maturité , pp. 10–20.
  12. ↑ a b c CV Ursula Hirsch In: ursulahirsch.ch , January 2019, accessed on February 13, 2019 (PDF; 2 MB)
  13. ↑ Topical edition hirschbaum, Vol. 4 Wall , pp. 54–56.
  14. ↑ All. Artist lexicon Saur / degruyter. Volume 73, p. 339
  15. ↑ Themenheft edition deer tree, Vol. 3 parabolic hyperbole - Energy , pp 2-10, 14/15, 22-33.
  16. ↑ Ursula Hirsch_3 Zimmer_ Gal Zimmermannshaus Brugg 2010 In: annelisezwez.ch , accessed on February 13, 2019.
  17. ^ Die Kunstkammer der AZB, Gaswerkstrasse 15, 8952 Schlieren Kunstkammer PLASTISCH> 09/10 10 exhibitions / portraits artist friends 2009 and 2010 guest curator Ursula Hirsch In: ursulahirsch.ch , accessed on February 13, 2019.
  18. ↑ March 2017 «My Ashram in Most India». In: Artists in Residence. In: Guest book of the Klaus guests. Retrieved on December 27, 2017 from the Ittingen Charterhouse website.
  19. ↑ Ursula Hirsch: My Ashram in Most India. ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2017 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. 2017, on the artist's website. (PDF; 49 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ursulahirsch.ch
  20. ↑ Topical edition hirschbaum, Vol. 5 Orientation , pp. 42–46.
  21. ↑ S. Bibliography
  22. ↑ a b themed issues edition hirschbaum, Vol 1–6.
  23. ↑ Evidence for the works shown
  24. ↑ Special issue edition hirschbaum, Vol. 4 "Wall" or Vol. 2 "Le pain urbain"
  25. ↑ Topical edition hirschbaum, Vol. 5 Orientation , pp. 22/23.
  26. ^ Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wil 1992 in edition hirschbaum, Vol. 6 “dorongdorong”, p. 48/49.
  27. ↑ Special issue edition hirschbaum Vol. 5 Orientation , pp. 60–64.

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personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschi, Ursula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich