Swiss
Swiss most commonly refers to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Swiss may also refer to: Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
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painter
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.
Life
Federle spent his childhood and youth in
St. Margrethen
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close to St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 1959, he created his first small paintings with his initials HF as a motif.
From 1964, Federle studied at the School of Applied Art in
Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...
. In 1969 and 1971, he received a federal scholarship. In the following year, Federle travelled to
Tunisia
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and the United States, where he studied for example the works of
Mark Rothko
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and
Agnes Martin
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. Together with his fellow artist and friend
Martin Disler
Martin Disler (1 March 1949, Seewen – 27 August 1996, Geneva) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer. He is associated with the '' Neue Wilde'' painting style.
Born to a family of gardeners, he was expelled from school in 1968 for discipl ...
he exhibited in 1976 in the Kunstmuseum der Stadt
Solothurn
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The town is ...
. Motifs at this time were mountains reduced to small triangles.
In 1979, Federle exhibited large-scaled canvases with geometric forms in the
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland.
As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre ...
. The exhibition was mostly misunderstood. In 1979 and 1980, Federle lived in
New York City
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where he was featured in the C-Space together with John M. Armleder,
Olivier Mosset
Olivier Mosset (born 1944 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss visual artist.
and Christoph Gossweiler. In 1981, the artist book ''New Suicide Grafic, Faces and other Pieces'' and in 1984 the artist book ''Arbeit der Neuen Ordnung (NSG II)'' Arbeit der Neuen Ordnung were published.
From 1983 to 1984, Federle lived in
Zürich
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and held a professorship in
Reykjavík
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. Later he moved to
Vienna
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where he started to work with Galerie Nächst St. Stephan. Federle at Galerie Nächst St. Stephan In the following years, Federle was widely featured in various museum shows. In 1997, he represented Switzerland at the Biennale di Venezia, XLVII. Biennale in Venice. From 1999 until 2007 he held a professorship at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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and, in 2008, he received the Prix Aurelie Nemours., ''Acceptance Speech Prix Aurélie-Nemours'' in 2016 the Ricola Prize.
'Scratching Away at the Surface' Federle's Interview in The Brooklyn Rail 2009 was the title of a recent exhibition in New York.
Federle lives and works in
Vienna
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and in
Camaiore
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History
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, Italy.
Solo exhibitions
*1979
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland.
As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre ...
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Its lineage extends ba ...
, Switzerland;
*1989
Museum of Grenoble
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Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient ...
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany. It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany;
*1991
Wiener Secession
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, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
*1992
Moderna Museet
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History
The museum opened in Stockh ...
Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
*1992
Kunsthalle Zürich
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Directors
* ...
Museum Folkwang
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, Essen, Germany (cat.)
*1995
Kunstmuseum Bonn
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Venice Biennale
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Kunsthaus Bregenz
The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz, Vorarlberg (Austria).
History
Commissioned by the State of Vorarlberg and designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the Kunsthaus Br ...
, Austria (cat.)
*2002
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
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...
, France (cat.)
*2004 Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria, Switzerland (cat.)
*2005 Rudolf Steiner Archiv / Haus Duldeck, Dornach, Switzerland (cat.)
*2009
Peter Blum Gallery
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Kunstmuseum Luzern
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, Lucerne, Switzerland (cat.)
*2013-2014
Peter Blum Gallery
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, New York, NY (cat.)
*2017
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
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, Lisbon, Portugal
*2019
Kunstmuseum Basel
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Its lineage extends ba ...
, Switzerland
Public collections
*
Albertina
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, Vienna, Austria
*
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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The museum shows modern art and contemporary art. It is directly opposite Buff ...
, Buffalo, NY
*
Carnegie Museum of Art
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Kunsthalle Nürnberg
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, Germany
*
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Its lineage extends ba ...
, Switzerland
*
Kunstmuseum Bonn
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Kunstmuseum Luzern
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, Switzerland
*
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
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, Switzerland
*
Kunsthaus Zürich
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, Switzerland
*
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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, Humlebaek, Denmark
*
Moderna Museet
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History
The museum opened in Stockh ...
Museum of Grenoble
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Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient ...
, Grenoble, France
*
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
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...
, France
*
Musée National d'Art Moderne
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,
Centre Pompidou
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, Paris, France
*
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Museum of Modern Art
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, New York City, NY
*
National Gallery of Australia
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, Canberra, Australia
*
Tate Modern
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, London, Great Britain
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Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
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, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bibliography
* ''Bilder 1977–1978.'' Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 1979
* New Suicide Grafic, Faces and other pieces, Zürich, Switzerland, 1981.
* Arbeit der Neuen Ordnung (NSG II), Dudweiler, Germany, 1983.
* ''Zeichnungen/Drawings 1975-1984.'' Zürich, Switzerland, 1984
* ''Bilder, Zeichnungen.'' Basel, Switzerland, 1985
* ''Jedes Zeichen ein Zeichen für andere Zeichen – Zur Ästhetik von Helmut Federle.'' Klagenfurt, Austria, 1986
* ''5 + 1'' New York, USA, 1990
* ''Helmut Federle.'' Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria 1991
* ''Helmut Federle, XLVII Biennale Venedig.'' Baden, Switzerland, 1997
* ''Helmut Federle.'' Cologne, Germany 1999
* ''Helmut Federle.'' Nantes/Arles, France 2002
* ''Helmut Federle – Zeichnungen 1975-1997 aus Schweizer Museumsbesitz im Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Dornach.'' Basel, Switzerland, 2005
* ''Helmut Federle'' Vienna, Austria 2010. Catalogue (in German and English) with an essay by Roman Kurzmeyer (Self-Assertion and Abstract Form)