Verena Loewensberg
Verena Loewensberg ( born May 28, 1912 in Zurich, † April 27, 1986 ibid ) was a Swiss painter and a representative of the Zurich school of Concrete.
Life
Verena Loewensberg was the eldest daughter of a six-member family of doctors in Zurich to the world. After two years of arts and crafts school in Basel (1927-1929) she was trained as a textile weaver in memory AR. In 1931 she married the designer Hans Coray. This was followed by art stays at the Academie Moderne in Paris, working with Auguste Herbin, and the separation from her husband. During this time, the life-long friendship with the painter Max Bill and his wife Binia began.
In 1936, she painted the first concrete images and helped in 1937 when the founding of the Alliance, a group of modern artists in Zurich. In the center of which formed the Zurich Concrete, one of whose core Loewensberg with Max Bill, Camille Graeser and Richard Paul Lohse. She participated in the successful group exhibitions. She also was inspired by the work Vantongerloo and Mondrian.
The mother of two earned their livelihood with fabric designs and led for a time a music shop at the Rössligasse in Zurich. From the 1970s, she was able to live from their art.
Works
Loewensbergs work stands out because of their ingenuity, a refusal to own formulated theory and by the absence of any other comments, which also manifests itself in the non-existing captions. I have no theory, I rely on that I can think of something, Verena Loewensberg used to say to her art. The late work groups are influenced by Japanese asceticism and Far Eastern philosophy of life and are considered highlights in her career.