Verena Loewensberg

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Verena Loewensberg (born May 28, 1912 in Zurich ; † April 27, 1986 there ) was a Swiss painter and representative of the Zurich School of Concrete .

Life

Verena Loewensberg was born in Zurich as the eldest daughter of a family of six doctors. After two years at the Basel School of Applied Arts (1927–1929), she did an apprenticeship as a textile weaver in Speicher AR . In 1931 she married the designer Hans Coray . The couple had two children: their son Stephan was born in 1943 and their daughter Henriette in 1946. Art stays at the Academie Moderne in Paris followed, working with Auguste Herbin and separating from her husband. During this time the lifelong friendship with the painter Max Bill and his wife Binia began.

In 1936 she painted the first concrete pictures and in 1937 she helped found the allianz , an association of modern artists in Zurich. In its center, the Zurich Concrete formed , to whose core Loewensberg belonged with Max Bill, Camille Graeser and Richard Paul Lohse . She participated in their successful group exhibitions. In addition, she was inspired by the work of Vantongerloo and Mondrian . In the 1950s and 1960s she worked for Guhl and Geigy. She also taught.

The mother of two earned her living by designing fabrics and for a time ran a music shop on Rössligasse in Zurich. From the 1970s she was able to make a living from her art.

She found her final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

Works

Loewensberg's work stands out for its ingenuity, the refusal to formulate its own theory and the lack of any comment, which is also manifested in the non-existent picture titles. I don't have a theory, I need to think of something , Verena Loewensberg used to say about her art. The later groups of works are influenced by Japanese asceticism and Far Eastern philosophy of life and are considered the high points of her career.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Angela Thomas Jankowski: Verena Loewensberg. In: Kassandra 1 (No. 1, 1978), o. P.
  • Kathrin Siebert, Paul Tanner and Henriette Coray (arrangement): Verena Loewensberg 1912–1986. Directory of prints. With a contribution by Bernadette Walter. Catalog. 2009.
  • Elisabeth Grossmann: Verena Loewensberg. Work monograph and catalog of the paintings. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85881-355-8 .
  • Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (eds.): Women in Graphic Design , Jovis, Berlin 2012, p. 505, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Loewensberg, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1986
Place of death Zurich