Born in 1892 near Saint Petersburg, Ivan Puni is regarded as one of the founders and leading lights of the Russian avant-garde, alongside Kazimir Malevich and others. He was an organizer of and participant in the legendary futurist exhibitions "Tramway V" and "0.10". In 1918 he started teaching at the State Free Art Workshops (the former art academy) in Saint Petersburg (then renamed Petrograd), before Chagall offered him a post at the art school he was founding in Vitebsk. Puni was one of the first avant-garde artists to realize how difficult it would be to work independently of Soviet propaganda, and in 1919 he decided to go into exile. He lived in Berlin until 1923 before settling permanently in Paris. This publication offers for the first time a representative cross section of the Berninger Collection and its important works from all periods by this Russian avant-garde artist: cubo-futurist still lifes, suprematist compositions from his Saint Petersburg and Berlin periods, ink drawings, works clearly influenced by Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity), and the emphatically painterly works of his later years.
Cultural Writing. Art. Photography. The volume is a rich collection of Swiss photographs from the Banca del Gottardo. Artists include: Joerg Bader, Ruedi Bechtler, Stefania Beretta, Lorenzo Bianda, Martin Blum, Matthias Bosshart, Daniele Buetti, Heinz Brand, Balthasar Burkhard, Ren‚ Burri, Hans Danuser, Silvie & Ch‚rif Defraoui, Lisa Enderli, Fischli/Weiss, Alberto Flammer, Robert Frank, Thomas Frey, Flor Gardu¤o, Walter Gartmann, Micaela Garzoni, Peter Gasser, Fausto Gerevini, Victor Gianella, Ren‚ Groebli, Adriano Heitmann, Hans Knuchel, Reto Rigassi, Luciano Rigolini, B‚atrice Helg, Olivia Heussler, Felix Stephan Huber, Alan Humerose, Franz Immoos, Jean-Pascal Imsand, Monique Jacot, Simone Kappeler, Pierre Keller, Urs Knoblauch, Katharina Krauss-Vonow, Rudolf Lichtsteiner, Kaspar Th. Linder, Urs L?thi, Ren‚ M„chler, Manon, Peter Maurer, Minkoff & Olesen, Claudio Moser, Jacques Pugin, Stefan Rohner, Monica Maria von Rosen, Klaudia Schifferle, Daniel Schwartz, Gaudenz Signorell, Alex Silber, Vladimir Spacek, Annelies Strba, Beat Streuli, Hannah Villiger, Christian Vogt, Bernard Vo‹ta, C‚cile Wick, Anna Winteler.
Photographs are accompanied by letters, drawings and excerpts from the photographer's journals in this monograph. Trained as a graphic artist and photographer, Bischof was associated with the Swiss magazine Du in the 1940s and travelled on assignment throughout war-devastated Europe.
The Swiss artist Klaus Born, born 1945 in a small village in the Swiss mountains, trained as a teacher and bookseller in Zrich in the late 1960s. He turned to art in 1972 and went to the Zrich College of Art for his education in drawing, etching, and p
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