Silvia Bächli
Silvia Bächli (born 1956) is a Swiss visual artist, photographer, and educator. She works primarily in painting and drawing. She has taught art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) since 1993.
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Silvia Bächli
- Name
- Silvia Bächli
- Born
- 16 March 1956
- Birthplace
- Wettingen, Baden District, Aargau, Switzerland
- Education
- Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève
- Occupation
- Visual artist, photographer, educator
- Known for
- Painting, drawing
- Spouse
- Eric Hattan
- Awards
- Manor Cultural Prize (1990)
- Nationality
- Switzerland.
- Fields
- painting, photography, art of drawing and visual arts.
- Languages
- French and German.
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Silvia Bächli (born 1956) is a Swiss visual artist, photographer, and educator. She works primarily in painting and drawing. She has taught art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) since 1993.
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Melanie Wiora is recorded as having studied under Silvia Bächli. The recorded working language is French and German. The field of work recorded is painting, photography and art of drawing. Places of work recorded in the authority are Basel and Paris. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Work by Silvia Bächli is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Museum Arnhem and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
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• Name — Silvia Bächli • Born — 16 March 1956 • Birthplace — Wettingen, Baden District, Aargau, Switzerland • Education — Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève • Occupation — Visual artist, photographer, educator • Known for — Painting, drawing • Spouse — Eric Hattan • Awards — Manor Cultural Prize (1990) • Website — https: www.silviabaechli.ch/
Biography
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Silvia Bächli was born on 16 March 1956 in Wettingen, Baden District, Aargau, Switzerland. She attended Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève. In 2009, her work was part of the Swiss pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Bächli has received many awards and honors including the Manor Cultural Prize in the Canton of Aargau in 1990, Montres Breguet Prize for contemporary art in 1991, the Meret-Oppenheim Prize in 2003, and the drawing prize from the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Fondation d’Art Contemporain in 2007. Her work can be found in museum collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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1956
Silvia Bächli was born in 1956 at Wettingen.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2286681: Silvia Bächli
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- “Silvia Bächli”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Bächli, Silvia, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091471983, Silvia Bächli (1996 : Bern).
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- 1.Frauenfelder, Kathrin. Hattan, Eric. SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz. 2006.
- 2.Oxford University Press. Bächli, Silvia. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. 978-0-19-989991-3.
- 3.Churner, Rachel. Rachel Churner on Silvia Bächli. Artforum.com. 2015.
- 4.Künstlerin Silvia Bächli bekommt Preis der Sammlung Ricola. Monopol magazine.
- 5.Storsve, Jonas. Silvia Bächli. AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes.
- 6.Prof. Silvia Bächli. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe.
- 7.Kunstpreis - Veronika Spierenburg erhält den diesjährigen Manor Kunstpreis Aarau. Aargauer Zeitung. February 27, 2013.
- 8.Silvia Bächli. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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Bächli, Silvia, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091471983, Silvia Bächli (1996 : Bern).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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