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 Copyright the artist | | | Federle, Helmut (1944 - ) Switzerland
Untitled, 1980
Acrylic on paper, mounted on aluminium; 206 x 363 cm 80's
UID 102-194
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Biography
Swiss artist. He started studying aeronautical mechanics but gave it up after one year. He showed a strong, early interest in painting and music. In 1959, Federle produced his first paintings, small in scale, with crests inspired by the first letters of his name, H. F. In 1964, he was accepted at the Basel School of Applied Arts, one of the most important in the country. There he came into contact with the great names of Modern Art like El Lissitzky, Barnett Newman, Clyford Still, Mark Rothko and Paul Klee. Between 1968 and 1969, he paid regular visits to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, where he developed an increasing interest in post-war American painting. In 1971, he held his first one-man show at the Riehentor Gallery and received a scholarship to go to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 1973, he exhibited a series of paintings with an abstract tendency at the Pablo Staehli Gallery in Lucerne. In 1979, he moved to New York where he found new stimulus for his artistic production. Between 1983 and 1984, he lived in Zurich and published his second book. In 1985, the Museum fŸr Gegenwartskunst in Basel organised a major exhibition of his work and Federle started a new series of large, vertical paintings in black and white with a strong Chinese influence. Los Angeles, Chicago and New York all presented Federle's work between 1986 and 1988. In 1989, Serge Lemoine organised this artist's first major one-man show, presenting his large paintings at the Musée de Grenoble, in France. He has also had important shows at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris (1995) and the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (1995-96). In 1997, he was invited to represent Switzerland at the Venice Biennale. In 1998, he held an exhibition at the Peter Blum Gallery in New York and, in the same year, he had his first museum exhibition at the Centro Julio Gonzalez in Valencia.
Exhibitions
Abstract Painting of America and Europe Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Austria 01-01-1986 ~ 31-12-1986
Helmut Federle Mary Boone Gallery, USA 01-01-1987 ~ 31-12-1987
Contemporary Painters in The Berardo Collection Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 28-05-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Helmut Federle – Bilder und Zeichnungen 1975-1988 (Hamburg) Kunstverein (Hamburg), Germany 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
Helmut Federle – Bilder und Zeichnungen 1975-1988 (Bielefeld) Kunsthalle (Bielefeld), Germany 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
Helmut Federle – Bilder und Zeichnungen 1975-1988 (Krefeld) Museum Haus Lange (Krefeld), Germany 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
Helmut Federle (New York) Barbara Gladstone Gallery, USA 01-01-1997 ~ 31-12-1997
Helmut Federle (Valencia) IVAM Centre Julio González, Spain 02-07-1998 ~ 20-09-1998
Helmut Federle (Vienna) Wiener Secession, Austria 01-01-1991 ~ 31-12-991
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Bibliography
Abstract Painting of America and Europe, 1988 Published by Galerie Nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Ritter Verlag
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Helmut Federle, 1989 Published by Musée de Grenoble
Helmut Federle, 1998 Published by IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez
Helmut Federle, 1987
Helmut Federle, 1991 Published by Wiener Secession
Helmut Federle – Bilder und Zeichnungen 1975-1988, 1989 Published by Karl Kerber Verlag
Helmut Federle, XLVII Biennial Venice Published by Lars Müller Publishers
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