Giuseppe Reichmuth

Giuseppe Reichmuth ( born August 14, 1944 in Affoltern am Albis, Canton Zurich ) is a Swiss painter and artist. It is hard to categorize under one art direction, because he chooses his style depending on the subject. His only solid feature is the humor.

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The first and probably still the best known picture " Zurich Ice Age" 1975 aroused a great sensation. It shows in photo-realistic style as a auffassbares apocalyptic scenario in Zurich: The Ice Age has broken out between the historic houses ice floes that are still stuck a warship and on which stand about penguins. The picture has been interpreted as an indictment inter alia on the supposedly frozen, ossified relationships of the former Zurich, which were denounced by the Zurich Youth Movement and writers such as Fritz Zorn.

In similar style yet, " Dinosaurs on the highway " was built, after the work was more versatile.

Reichmuth participated in Baden theater projects such as the Jerry Dental Kollek Goofy. He learned Ruedi houses man, with whom he many productions and actions aufführte in the sequence, eg 1985 " Bleu et gentil ": Disguised as the Zurich police, the two artists walked hand in hand through the city.

Provocative was also Reichmuth's image of a vicious smoking pope and the action that crisscross hang by the atrium of the University of specially mounted clotheslines laundry, " to wash dirty laundry " to some extent with the proverbial motto.

With Roman Casanova, he painted more recently " round- Herbilder »: One artist painted a picture, this was photocopied in color, then more or less strongly from the other (but never completely ) painted over. It was re- copied and sent back - emerged from March 1997 until the end of 2003 in this way 83 pictures that were exhibited together.

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• " Zurich Ice Age" was used as the cover image for the CD " Swiss cult hit" Vol 2.
• " Zurich Ice Age" became an epitome of the Zurich youth riots of 1980.
• The " dinosaurs on the highway " made it to the USA, where he was to be found on posters, T -shirts and a house wall.
• According Reichmuth additional pictures were planned in the style of " Zurich Ice Age", which would have applied the same principle to other cities, but this was not implemented.