Helmut Federle

Helmut Federle ( born October 31, 1944 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss painter.

Life

Federle spent his childhood and youth in St.Margrethen in the canton of St. Gallen. Initially he worked as a singer and guitarist / accordionist. In 1959 came the first small pictures with his initials HF as a motive.

From 1964 to 1969 studied at the General Federle Basel School of including in the painting class of Franz Fedier and introduced in 1971 in the Basel gallery Riehentor from. 1969 and 1971 received the the Federal Art Scholarship. There she traveled to Tunis and the United States, where he worked among others with the works of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin. Together with his friend, the painter Martin Disley he presented in 1976 at the Art Museum of the city of Solothurn. It was followed by a solo exhibition at the Basel Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann. Motives of the images were partially reduced to small triangles mountains.

1979 showed Federle at the Kunsthalle Basel under the direction of Jean -Christophe Ammann large-format images with geometric shapes. However, the exhibition met mostly with incomprehension. From 1979-1980 Federle lives in New York, where it has its first exhibition in the C- Space ( with John M. Armleder, Olivier Mosset, and Christoph Gossweiler ). In 1981 the artist's book New Grafic Suicide, Faces and other pieces, and in 1984, the artist's book work of the New Order (NSG II).

From 1983-1984 Federle lived in Zurich, received a teaching assignment in Reykjavík. Thereafter he moved to Vienna, where he has lived ever since and with the gallery Next St. Stephan works. Federle 1997 represented Switzerland at the XLVII. Venice Biennale. From 1999 to 2007 he was professor of painting at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.

Federle received the Prix Aurelie Nemours 2008.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

Works

  • New Suicide Grafic, Faces and other pieces, Zurich, Verlag neighbor of the World, 1981.
  • Work of the New Order (NSG II), Dudweiler, AQ -Verlag, 1983.
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