Research Catalog

Title

Painters and sculptors building cooperative Zurich : working and living history and presence of studio house Wuhrstrasse 8/10 / Painters and Sculptors Building Cooperative Zurich ; texts, Stefan Burger [and seven others].

Publication

• Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bürger, Stefan
• Baugenossenschaft Maler und Bildhauer Zürich, issuing body.

Description

243 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map, plans, portraits; 31 cm

Summary

The studio and residential building at Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich is a unique place: Commissioned by the Painters & Sculptors Building Cooperative Zurich, founded in 1948, eminent Swiss architect Ernst Gisel (1922-2021) designed this ensemble of buildings comprising eight apartments and twelve artist studios in 1953. Thus, a utopia of self-organized working and living space became reality. Since then, fifty-four artists have left their mark on the artistic and cultural life of Zurich and Switzerland from their home on Wuhrstrasse 8/10. This book recounts the history of this extraordinary structure, illustrated with archival plans and documents as well as new and historic photographs. It also examines the political and social dimension of the Wuhrstrasse model and its international impact. Further essays explore how the lives and works of the resident artists are interwoven with contemporary events, and address the artist studio as both an idealized myth and as a real place of work. In inserts created especially for the book, eleven Zurich-based artists, all not members of the cooperative themselves, respond to the exemplary model that is the 'Atelierhaus'. Art inserts by Georg Aerni, Marieta Chirulescu, Stephan Janitzky, Verena Kathrein / Ariane Müller, Adriana Lara, Christian Philip Müller, Manfred Pernice, Zara Pfeifer, Erik Steinbrecher, Constantin Thun, Georg Winter.

Alternative Title

• Working & living painters & sculptors cooperative Zurich Wuhr : living & working cooperative sculptors & painters Zurich : Cooperative working & living Strasse painters & sculptors Zurich Scheidegger & Spiess 8/10
• Wuhr Strasse 8/10

Subjects

• Artists' studios
• Architecture, Domestic
• History
• Switzerland > Zurich
• Buildings
• Zurich (Switzerland) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Artists' studios > Switzerland > Zurich
• Architecture, Domestic > Switzerland > Zurich
• Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse 8/10 (Zurich, Switzerland) History
• Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse 8/10 (Zurich, Switzerland)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English and German.

Contents

Documentation of the apartments and studios June 3-10, 2020 -- Photographs, 2020 -- Inserts -- The studiobuilding at Wuhrstrasse and its architect -- members 1953-2021 -- A small utopia materializes -- The studio as myth and vibrant present -- Living and working - on the normalization of artistic work -- "Wuhrstrasse" and its reach - a chronicle -- A friendly place -- In art we trust -- Biographies.

Call Number

JQG 22-359

ISBN

• 3039420313
• 9783039420315

OCLC

1258071186

Title

Painters and sculptors building cooperative Zurich : working and living history and presence of studio house Wuhrstrasse 8/10 / Painters and Sculptors Building Cooperative Zurich ; texts, Stefan Burger [and seven others].

Publisher

Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In English and German.

Added Author

Bürger, Stefan, author.

Baugenossenschaft Maler und Bildhauer Zürich, issuing body.

Cover Title

Working & living painters & sculptors cooperative Zurich Wuhr : living & working cooperative sculptors & painters Zurich : Cooperative working & living Strasse painters & sculptors Zurich Scheidegger & Spiess 8/10

Research Call Number

JQG 22-359