Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth is a contemporary art gallery, founded in 1992 in Zurich, with further showrooms and sales offices in London and New York and a rally in St. Gallen.

History

Iwan Wirth founded at an early age with a partner, a gallery in St. Gallen; yet he made ​​first contact with the collector Ursula Hauser, a Teilhaberin, headed by her brother Walter Fust Swiss electrical goods chain Fust. Together with Ursula Hauser's daughter Manuela, Iwan Wirth's wife later, they founded in 1992 in Zurich gallery with established artists such as Gerhard Richter and Marcel Broodthaers and involved mainly as a promoter at various contemporary art projects. In 1998, Hauser & Wirth involved as participants in the Zurich gallery Walcheturm, operating under the name soon parallel to Hauser & Wirth as Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber.

Essential for the development of the gallery was the collaboration of Ivan Wirth with the German entrepreneur Friedrich Christian Flick, for the collection known as the Flick Collection Wirth wrote the collection concept and acted in an advisory capacity. With increasing success Hauser & Wirth opened near St. Gallen own collection. In 2000, Iwan Wirth with David Zwirner Gallery in Manhattan the Zwirner & Wirth, which in turn specializes in classical representatives of contemporary art, and after moving the family to London Wirth 2003 a local branch. In the rooms that acquired by the Munich art dealer Konrad Bernheimer and Katrin Bellinger 2002 Gallery Colnaghi in London's Bond Street, which previously sold exclusively Old Masters, Hauser & Wirth operate in October 2006 under the name of Hauser & Wirth at Colanghi another premises.

In addition to Swiss artists such as Roman Signer, Christoph Büchel and Pipilotti Rist at Hauser & Wirth also represented international artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Paul McCarthy, and administer the estates of Eva Hesse, Jason Rhoades, Lee Lozano and André Thomkins.

Near St. Gallen, which emerged from the gallery Hauser & Wirth Collection housed, from whose stocks several exhibitions have been fitted: