Walter Keller (publisher)
Walter Keller (born December 27, 1953 in Uster ; † September 1, 2014 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist , publisher and gallery owner .
Life
Walter Keller was born in Uster in 1953 as the son of an Italian and a Swiss. Between 1973 and 1978 he studied folklore , linguistics and German studies in Zurich and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1978 he founded the magazine Der everyday life. The sensations of the ordinary with which he recorded everyday life in Switzerland. With Jacqueline Burckhardt , Bice Curiger and Peter Blum , he founded the magazine Parkett in 1984 , which was published in Zurich and New York in German and English. Each edition was created in collaboration with one or more contemporary artists.
In 1991, Keller initiated the Scalo photo book publisher with a bookshop and gallery. However, the project had to file for bankruptcy in 2006. With his partner George Reinhart and Urs Stahel , he then founded the Fotomuseum Winterthur in 1993 , for whose sponsoring association Keller was a board member for the first few years.
In 2008, Keller was editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Du from January to August . He also worked for the Lumas photo gallery in the late 2000s . From 2010 he ran the “Galerie Walter Keller” in Zurich.
Awards
- 2006: Heinrich Wölfflin Medal from the City of Zurich
Works
- with Gerhard Steidl and Karl Lagerfeld : Off the Record. Scalo, Zurich 1995, ISBN 978-1-8816-1637-5 .
- A day in the life of: portraits from over twenty years. Salis Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9058-0105-7 .
- Collecting fine art. teNeues, Kämpen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8327-9529-0 .
- Ed .: Capital: Merchants in Venice and Amsterdam. Exhibition in the National Museum Zurich . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0369-5653-4 .
literature
- Urs Stahel (ed.), Miriam Wiesel (ed.): Walter Keller - Profession: Publisher. Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-906803-36-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Zurich publisher Walter Keller died unexpectedly. SRF , September 3, 2014
- Simone Meier : Walter Keller is dead. Now the Swiss art world stands still for a moment. watson.ch , September 2, 2013
- Urs Stahel: In memory of Walter Keller: The lanky dervish no longer pokes through the city , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 3, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary, Tages-Anzeiger, September 5, 2014, p. 23
- ↑ Fotomuseum Winterthur needs new management. südostschweiz.ch , September 18, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2014.
- ↑ Daniele Muscionico: He was a fiberglass of art. In: Der Bund , September 2, 2014
- ↑ Res Strehle : He took the arrogance of high culture. In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 31, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss author, publisher and gallery owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uster |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 2014 |
| Place of death | Zurich |