Alois Lichtsteiner

Alois Lichtsteiner ( born July 9, 1950 in Ohmstal, Switzerland ) is a Swiss painter and object artist.

Life

Alois Lichtsteiner was born in 1950 in Ohmstal, in the canton of Lucerne. By 1970, he graduated from the compulsory schools and the teacher training college and graduated with a teaching diploma from. He then worked in various manual trades.

1974 traveled Alois Lichtsteiner for a year North and Central Africa. Back in Switzerland, he attended the Art School in Zurich, which he successfully completed in 1978. In the same year Alois Lichtsteiner had his first solo exhibition in the Berne Gallery at John Gachnang in Bern. 1989/90 he received a scholarship from the canton of Bern, which enabled him to stay in Paris. Since 1990 he lives and works in Paris and Murten.

Between 1994 and 1998, Alois Lichtsteiner was a guest lecturer at the Ecole Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Sion / Sierre. Since then, he has been president of the jury for Bachelor of HEA Sierre.

Alois Lichtsteiner is married to Renata Lichtsteiner and has one son, Julian Lichtsteiner.

Work

The images and objects of Alois Lichtsteiner - whether it is birch images to vessels or to mountain pictures - neither image nor abstraction. What we see is concrete. It is always at the same time what it is, so brush strokes / color on an image body and what it means, for example, Snow on mountain slopes and locations where it is melted.

Alois Lichtsteiner does not, therefore forth mountains, birch, or vessels; he always thinks only the painting itself, a skin- covered body, a body image that is covered with skin color. The sensual perception of the world through the skin makes Lichtsteiner on the concept of his painting. It only changes the view to examine another side of the same thing over and over again. It is about the fundamental issues of painting.

The various cycles of works " The contents of the vessels ", " birch ", or "mountain" experience in the course of their treatment, a survey design, without making the picture pretends to be something other than a body, covered with a layer of skin color. In the reduced combination of white and gray forms, eg can at the mountain images without illustrating, are envisioned a monumental diversity of the high mountains conceptual and sensual. You experience downright the emptiness and silence, you can feel the cold or the reflected light on the surface, you will be covered by this feeling of exposure.

Exhibitions

Selection

Solo Exhibitions

• 2008 Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich
• 2008 lacabane, Muntelier, cross-section
• 2008 Galerie Ferdinand Oberholzer, Bern ( Edition Michael Rothe, in a book of 34 hand-colored intaglio printing )
• Eberhard 2008 Galerie Kornfeld, Bern ( retrospective book presentation )
• 2007 Gallery Jamileh Weber, Zurich
• 2004 Gallery Jamileh Weber, Zurich
• 2003 Kunstmuseum Bern, (catalog)
• 2002 Gallery Jamileh Weber, Zurich
• 2001 Museum of Art Lucerne, birches and a mountain, (catalog)
• 2000 Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich
• 1998 Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich
• 1996 Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva
• 1995 Gallery Hannelore Lötscher, Lucerne
• 1993 Kunstmuseum Bern, Picture of the Month, ( newspaper section )
• 1993 Kunstverein Freiburg iB, D, (catalog)
• 1992 Kunsthalle Bern, (catalog)
• 1989 Art Museum Sion, (catalog)
• 1985-97 Silvia Steiner, Biel
• 1984 Art Lucerne area
• 1983-86 Gallery Severina Teucher, Zurich
• 1982-92 Gallery Toni Gerber, Bern
• 1978 Bern Gallery, Bern,

Group Exhibitions

• 2008 Lorraine 13 - Städtische Kunsthalle München, D, Gardapat 13 books and art
• 2007 Kunsthalle Turin, I, go between, between abstraction and figuration (catalog)
• 2006 Kunstverein Aichach, D, Go in between (catalog)
• 2006 Gallery in the Park, Burgdorf, memory and the present
• 2005 Kunsthaus Palazzo, Liestal, time slots, memory and the present - 8 painter (catalog)
• 2004 Kunstmuseum Chur
• 2002 Centre PasquArt, Biel, Into the Light, private collection (catalog)
• 2000 15th International Triennial of Original graphics, Grenchen, (catalog)
• 1998 Forum d'art contemporain, Casino Luxembourg, LUX, The Hess Collection - New Works (catalog)
• 1997 Kunsthalle Bern, ways of art, collectors' Migros Berne, (catalog)
• 1996 Kunstmuseum Bern Collection Toni Gerber Part II (catalog)
• 1994 Kunstmuseum Bern, contemporaries, (catalog)
• 1993 Art Museum Sion, Quelques travaux au sol
• 1987 Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany, Switzerland currently (catalog)
• 1986 Shedhalle Zurich, on the back of a tiger, (catalog)
• 1986 Kunstmuseum Bern Collection Toni Gerber Part I (catalog)
• 1983 Art Museum Zurich, SILO (catalog)
• 1981 Kunsthalle Bern, artist group SILO (catalog)

Bibliography

Selection since 1985

• Alois Lichtsteiner - monograph. Publisher Galerie Kornfeld Bern, 2008.
• Matthias Frehner: Alois Lichtsteiner. In: Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Bern. Bern, 2003.
• Hans Rudolf Reust: Alois Lichtsteiner, traverses in painting. In: Art Bulletin. 7/2001, pp. 30
• Ulrich Loock: The World -facing side. In: birch trees and a mountain. Exhibition catalog Museum of Art Lucerne. Lucerne, 2001.
• Hans Rudolf Reust: Alois Lichtsteiner at Jamileh Weber. In: ARTFORUM internationally. Summer 2000, p 192
• 15th International Triennial of original graphic. 2000 Grenchen ( catalog with illustrations ) ( Maxes summer).
• Andreas Fiedler: Alois Lichtsteiner. In: Biographical Dictionary of Swiss art. Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich. Zurich, 1998.
• New Works from the Hess Collection. Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, 1998 Love Field Bern, 1998..
• Susanne Bieri: Alois Lichtsteiner. In: Art Bulletin. 3/1998.
• Christoph Hoigné: Pathways to Art. Ways of collection. Purchases Migros Berne. Bern, 1997.
• Anette Baumann: Alois Lichtsteiner, studio visit. In: Norberto Gramaccini and Michael Krethlow (eds.): Berne Almanac art. Bern, 1996.
• The collection Toni Gerber at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Second part. Bern Art Museum, 1996 catalog. Toni Gerber. Bern, 1996.
• Hans Christoph von Tavel: contemporaries. In: Bernese Art Releases. # 303, 1/1994, pp. 9-19.
• Alois Lichtsteiner. Freiburg im Breisgau, Kunstverein Freiburg, 1992 [ text: ]. Stephan Berg, Hans Rudolf Reust. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1992.
• Alois Lichtsteiner. Kunsthalle Bern, 1992. [Text: ] Ulrich Loock. Bern 1992.
• Young Swiss Art from 1960 to 1990. Collection of the Gotthard Bank. Jeune art suisse 1960-1990. Collection de la Banque du Gothard. Giovane arte svizzera 1960-1990. Collezione della Banca del Gottardo. [Texts / Essais / testi: ] Rudolf Hanhart, Marcel Baumgartner; [ et al. ] ed. on behalf of / Edite sur mandat de la / by incarico della Banca del Gottardo, Lugano. Bern: Benteli, 1991 [ Edition française / edizione italiana 1992 ] (. .. Swiss Institute for Art Research catalogs Swiss museums and collections Catalogues de musées et de Suisses collections Cataloghi dei musei e collezioni svizzeri 14).
• Alois Lichtsteiner. Sion, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1989 [ text: ]. Fibicher Bernard, Ulrich Loock, Hans Rudolf Reust. Sion, 1989.
• Jean -Christophe Ammann: An image for a conference. In: You. 3/1989, p 107
• Josef Zihlmann: Alois Lichtsteiner. In: Willisauer messenger. June 6, 1987.
• Open end - Young Swiss art. Kunsthalle Nuremberg, 1987. [Texts: ] Urs Stahel, Heinz Neidel. Nuremberg, 1987.
• The collection Toni Gerber at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Kunstmuseum Bern, 1986. [Texts: ] Hans Christoph von Tavel, Josef Helfenstein, Christoph Schenker. Bern, 1986.
• Thomas Kratky, Alois Lichtsteiner. Bern, Sea House, Kunstmuseum Bern, 1986. [Text: ] Josef Helfenstein. Bern, 1986.
• 1986 exhibition catalog: Shedhalle, Zurich - exact DATA
• Christoph Schenker: On the back of a tiger. Shedhalle Zurich 1986.