Ingeborg Lüscher
Illustration — Ingeborg Lüscher (2008) in her Amber room, (Bernsteinzimmer) Ingeborg Lüscher (born 22 June 1936 in Freiberg) is a German/Swiss artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. Her work has been exhibited in many institutional venues around the world, including the Musée d‘art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Centre d‘Art Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. In 2011 she was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize.
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Ingeborg Lüscher
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- 1936 · Freiberg.
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- Switzerland · Germany
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- actress · photographer · painter · artist
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- German
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Illustration — Ingeborg Lüscher (2008) in her Amber room, (Bernsteinzimmer) Ingeborg Lüscher (born 22 June 1936 in Freiberg) is a German/Swiss artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. Her work has been exhibited in many institutional venues around the world, including the Musée d‘art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Centre d‘Art Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. In 2011 she was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize.
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1936
Ingeborg Lüscher was born in 1936 at Freiberg.
1982
Die Schwierigkeit, ein Mensch zu werden: Ingeborg Lüscher im Kunstmuseum Solothurn digitised by DataCite (Conzett + Huber).
1984
Ingeborg Lüscher in Genf digitised by DataCite (Conzett + Huber).
1989
Ingeborg Lüscher digitised by DataCite (Associazione Amici delle Tre Terre).
1990
Innen-Aussen-Haus: Wohn- und Atelierhaus Harald Szeemann-Ingeborg Lüscher in Tegna, TI, 1990: Architekt Christoph Zürcher digitised by DataCite (Verlegergemeinschaft Werk, Bauen + Wohnen).
2001
Ingeborg Lüscher über Meret Oppenheim digitised by DataCite (TA-Media AG).
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Since 1967 Lüscher works and lives in Tegna, Ticino, Switzerland. She was first married to the Swiss psychotherapist Max Lüscher, then to the Swiss curator and art historian Harald Szeemann.
The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Switzerland. Work by Ingeborg Lüscher is recorded in the collections of Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Neue Nationalgalerie, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.
• Ingeborg Lüscher: Dokumentation über Armand Schulthess Der grösste Vogel kann nicht fliegen. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1972. • Ingeborg Lüscher: Erlebtes und Erdäumeltes einander zugeordnet. Oumansky-Preis, Fantonigrafica, Venice, 1975 • Ingeborg Lüscher: Die Angst des Ikarus oder Hülsenfrüchte sind Schmetterlingsblütler. Aarau; Frankfurt; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1982. • Ingeborg Lüscher: AVANT–APRES/Sheer Prophecy–True Dreams, centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, 1980 • Ingeborg Lüscher: Der unerhörte Tourist–Laurence Pfautz. Aarau; Frankfurt am Main; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1985. (nur erhältlich bei Buchhandlung Libri & Arte in Locarno-Muralto) • Ingeborg Lüscher and Adolf Muschg (Text): Japanische Glückszettel. Suhrkamp Insel Verlag 1996. • Ingeborg Lüscher: Zaubererfotos/Magician Photos, JRP-Ringier, Zurich, 2010,
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• MANUALE, A reference book about the works of Ingeborg Lüscher, Samuel Herzog (text), Niggli 1999, • Viveri polifonici - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Mart, Rovereto, Skira, 2004. (texts in Italian and English by Antonio d’Avossa, Thomas McEvilley, Leila Kais and Juri Steiner) • Lass einen Zweig von weißem Flieder in Südafrika - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Wiesbaden, 14. Mai - 23. Juli 2006. Wiesbaden 2006. (texts in German and English by Renate Petzinger, Hanne Dannenberger and Volker Rattemeyer) • Das Licht und die Dunkelheit knapp unter den Füssen, Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 2016. (texts in German and English by Patricia Bieder, Hans-Joachim Müller, Michele Robecchi and Christoph Vögele)
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