Vera Isler-Leiner

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Vera Isler-Leiner (born May 28, 1931 in Berlin ; † September 22, 2015 in Basel ) was a Swiss photographer and experimental artist .

biography

Vera Leiner's Polish father, Heinz Leiner, and her Hungarian mother, Louise Leiner-Reichmann, sent her and her two sisters to Switzerland by child transport in 1936 to protect them from the Nazis . Her parents could no longer leave Germany and were murdered in Belzec in 1942 . She spent her school days between 1938 and 1949 in Teufen AR and Trogen AR . As a result, her artistic development began.

In 1998 Vera Isler-Leiner fell ill with breast cancer . For the mastectomy , she designed her own tattoo , The Blue Flowers . Vera Isler-Leiner has two daughters and was married to the literary scholar and journalist Manuel Isler . She lived in Bottmingen , Basel , Nice and New York .

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Vera Isler-Leiner worked scientifically for the Swiss National Science Foundation in the 1950s . In addition, she started acting, filming, TV moderation and creating objects in different materials. After this time of trying things out, her active, artistic work began. As a result, she was present at various exhibitions. In 1963/1968 she created textile works, including dream times , in 1968/1978 she devoted herself to her programming with reliefs and objects , in 1978/1984 she created chromosomes , the DNA story , lead typefaces. As commissioned work, she made a textile wall installation ( Zurich ), a concrete relief in a municipal swimming pool ( Basel ) and a wall fresco in a sports hall (Basel).

During her first long stay in the USA in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1980 she limited herself to the photographic field. It focused on faces. She toured Europe, Siberia , Japan , China and Australia .

From 1981 their activities related to photo reports about art, artists and artistic architecture. Her work has been published in magazines and journals and various photo books have been created with a focus on portraits. The focus of her work has always been on people. In 1986 the photo book Looks at us caused a sensation and provocation with portraits of over 80 years of age . At the beginning of the 1990s she got to know the work of Heinz Günter Mebusch , which has found an independent continuation in her work groups Face to Face and Art Offenders to the present day.

Artistic video films and video stills have been produced since 2000. Vera Isler-Leiner took part in talk shows, gave interviews on radio and television and gave readings from her book Auch Ich . Vera Isler-Leiner's estate is looked after by the non-profit ART estate foundation.

Exhibitions

  • Textile work
    • Hamburg artist club Die Insel , Hamburg, 1968
    • Kunstamt Tiergarten von Berlin, Berlin, 1969
  • Photo work. Theater am Turm, Frankfurt, AJZ
    • Art of Denial , 1982, Historical Archive Cologne
    • Change of roles , 1992, Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne
    • Change of roles , 1993, Museum der Kulturen, Basel
    • Beijing / Hong Kong Installation, 1996, Permanent Collection Kunstmuseum Winterthur
    • Face to Face II , Museum der Moderne Rupertinum , 2011, Salzburg
    • Face to Face II , Museum Tinguely , Basel, 2012

Publications

  • 1982: Art of Denial illustrated book , AJZ-Autonomous Youth Centers
  • 1986: Photo book Look at us. (Portraits of people over 80.)
  • 1987: Photo book Mäss on St. Peter's Square
  • 1988: Photo book Spitzen-Platz (portraits of the Swiss elite)
  • 1992: Photo book role change. Photographer portraits. ISBN 978-3-7245-0770-3 .
  • 1992: Face to Face illustrated book . Artist portraits
  • 1995: Photo book Mario Botta, Bank am Aeschenplatz Basel.
  • 2000: Me too. Autobiography. ISBN 3-89793-021-8 .
  • 2011: Photo book Face to Face II. Artist portraits

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ death displays portal.ch
  2. ↑ Vera Isler in the ART Estate Foundation. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Isler-Leiner, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2015
Place of death Basel