Carl Bucher

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Carl Bucher (1935 - 2015) The Swiss painter and sculptor Carl Bucher was a traveller, working in his own duty to explore and liberate humanity and its surroundings. He dedecated most of his artistic career to visualize the idear of humanism. He belonged to the Swiss avantgarde during the 1960ies and 1970ies, later he became a zeitgeist, being present and compassionate about the current domestic and international political events. From today’s perspective his works became universally valid and in its own sense they form part of a cosmic whole. A healthy relationship between humans beings, earth and all creatures has been very important for Carl Bucher, as he was terrified by injustice.

Carl Bucher
Carl Bucher - photo: Peter Derron
Born	Carl Bucher 1935 Zurich, Switzerland
Died	2015 (80) Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss / Canadian
Education	Studied Law at the University of Zurich
Known for	Sculpture
Spouse(s)	Heidi Bucher 1960 ending in divorce in the late1970s
Website	carlbucher.com

Biography

After important solo presentations in the USA and Canada, among others in the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1971 and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972, Carl Bucher’s work was also shown in two exhibitions in the Kunsthaus Zürich, i.e., in a major solo exhibition 1975 and prior there to in 1967. At that time his concise „Landings“ were in the focus, the maturation of which is portrayed in the works of the current exhibition developed Carl Bucher’s fossilized figures may be found in the museum of the Red Cross in Geneva and in front of the European Court for Human Rights in Strassburg. Recently, Carl Bucher was prominently represented in the exhibition „Swiss Pop Art“ exhibition in the Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2017.

Solo exhibitions

1962 Club Bel Etage, Zurich

1963 Galleria d’Arte Santacroce, Florence

1966 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1968 Galerie im weissen Haus, Winterthur

1968 Galerie Bernhard, Solothurn

1969 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1970 Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel

1971 New Smith Gallery, Brussels

Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada

Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Rothman’s Art Gallery of Stradfort, Ontario, Canada

1972 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington

“Landings”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1973 Ester Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1975 Kunsthaus Zurich

1976 Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (together with Rolf Iseli and Urs Lüthy)

1978 Galerie Schlégl

1979 Galerie Numaga, Auvernier

1981 “Stadt und Skulptur. Carl Bucher”, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany (retrospective)

1982 Galerie Maurer, Zurich

1984 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan

1988 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich

1992 “Art 23 ‘92”, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan

Galleria del Naviglio, Milan

1995 Art Room, Lengnau AG, exhibition to mark Carl Bucher’s 60th birthday

1997 “Carl Bucher. Versteinerte Lebenszeichen”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Schaan, Liechtenstein

2001 Galeria La Villa, Teguise, Lanzarote

2002 “Carl Bucher”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich

2005 “Carl Bucher. Skulpturen, Bilder”, Galerie Christine Brügger, Bern

“Carl Bucher. Zum 70. Geburtstag”, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich

2011 “Carl Bucher. Skulptur und Malerei”, Schloss Greyerz, Gruyères, Switzerland

2015 “Carl & Heidi Memorial Exhibition”, Curuna Ardez, Ardez, Switzerland

2016 “Hommage à Heidi Bucher und Carl Bucher”, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur, Switzerland

2019 “Early Works and Hope”, PLUTSCHOW GALLERY, Zurich

Selected group exhibitions

1961 “Zürcher Künstler” at Helmhaus, Zurich

1964 “Perspectiven”, Galerie Handschin, Basel

1964 “6 Artists of Galerie Suzanne Bollag”, Molton Gallery, London

1967 “Unter 40. Schweizer Maler, Bildhauer und Gestalter in zwei Ausstellungen”, Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1968 “Wege und Experimente. 30 junge Schweizer Künstler”, Kunsthaus, Zurich “Wege und Experimente. 28 junge Schweizer Künstler”, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria, and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria “Zürcher Künstler im Helmhaus Zürich. Abstrakte und nichtfigürliche Richtungen”,

Helmhaus, Zurich

Pulchri Studio, The Hague

“Collection Peter Stuyvesant”: le Musée dans l’usine, Cultureel Centrum Maastricht, Holland

“Neue Tendenzen”, Galerie Wengihof, Zurich

1969 “Dimensionen 1969”, Galerie d’”Art Moderne, Basel

Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1971 “The Swiss Avant-Garde”, The New York Cultural Center, New York

1972 / 75 “Terre des Hommes”, Montreal

1973 “Group of Sculptures”, Vancouver Art Gallery

1975 6th Swiss sculpture exhibition, Biel

13th São Paulo Biennale (together with Rolf Iseli and Urs Lüthi).

1976 Swiss sculpture exhibition, Vira Gambarogno

“Kunstszene Zürich”, Kunsthaus Zurich

“Aspekte der Kunst der Gegenwart”, Kunsthalle Mannheim

1977 “Artistes Zurichois”, Musée Rath, Geneva

“FIiegen – ein Traum – Faszination – Fortschritt – Vernichtungswahn”,

Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen

1978 “Kunstszene Zürich 1978”, Künstlerhaus am Karlsplatz, Vienna

“lll. Biennale der Schweizer Kunst: Aktualität – Vergangenheit”,

Kunstmuseum Winterthur

“Sculpture Today / Canada”: 10th International Sculpture Symposium, Toronto

“Art 9’78”, Galerie Schlégl, Basel

1979 “Kunst auf dem Wasser”, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug

Art 10’79, special exhibition of Swiss art since Giacometti, Basel

Art 10’79, Galerie Schlégl, Basel

15th São Paulo Biennale: Special exhibition of previous prizewinners, São Paulo

1980 7th Swiss sculpture exhibition, Biel

“Espaces”, Maison de la Culture, Le Havre

“Reliefs”, Kunsthaus Zurich

“Pop Art und verwandte Strömungen in der Schweiz”, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Thunerhof, Thun

1983 “Wer zeigt sein wahres Gesicht?”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany

1990 “Passagen. Skulptur in Bad Ragaz”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland

1991 “Memento Monumenti”, Centre PasquArt, Biel

1992 “Im Bereich des Möglichen. Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus öffentlichen und privaten

Sammlungen”, Centre PasquArt, Biel

1998 “Spurensuche – Das Bild des Menschen in der Schweizer Gegenwartskunst”,

Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon (SZ), Switzerland

2000 “Bad Ragartz. 1st Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland

2003 “Bad Ragartz. 2nd Swiss Triennale of Sculpture”, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland

2004 “Être. Les droits de l’homme à travers l’art”, United Nations, Geneva

2005 “Skulpturenausstellung. 48 Kunstschaffende aus der Schweiz”, Schüpfen, Switzerland

“OpenArt 05”, Roveredo, Grisons, Switzerland

2006 “Bad Ragartz. 3rd Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz”,

Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, and Vaduz, Liechtenstein

“Skulptur ‘06”, Villa Mettlen, Muri, Switzerland

“Swiss Pop”, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

“OpenArt 06”, Roveredo, Grisons, Switzerland

2008 ‘68 – Zürich steht Kopf. Rebellion, Verweigerung, Utopie”, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum,

Pfäffikon (SZ), Switzerland

2013 “Biennale Skulpturen-Symposium”, Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur

2015 "Hommage to Heidi Bucher & Carl Bucher" Curuna Ardez

2017 “Swiss Pop Art – Formen und Tendenzen der Pop Art in der Schweiz 1962– 1972”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

Awards

1964 / 76 Federal grants

1967 / 68 Grants from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation

1970 / 71 Grant from the Arts Council of Canada to fund a 15-month stay in Canada.

Lives in Montreal and Toronto.

1975 1st International Jury Prize at the 13th São Paulo Biennale