camille graeser


Activities

Umsetzung des Entwurfs einer Hotelhalle mit Wandbild und Aluminiumrelief in der Ausstellung: die Phantastischen Vier im Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich vom 26.8. 2011 bis 23.10. 2011  
Photo: Stefan Altenburger  
© Museum Haus Konstruktiv

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Umsetzung des Entwurfs einer Hotelhalle mit Wandbild und Aluminiumrelief in der Ausstellung: die Phantastischen Vier im Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich vom 26.8. 2011 bis 23.10. 2011  
Photo: Stefan Altenburger  
© Museum Haus Konstruktiv

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Hotelhalle mit Wandbild und Aluminiumrelief, Entwurf 1964  
Tusche, Bleistift, Deckfarbe und Aquarell auf weissem Papier, 20 x 59,9 cm, Signiert und datiert: «camille Graeser 64»  
WA 64.1  
Zürich, Camille Graeser Stiftung  
© Camille Graeser Stiftung / Pro Litteris Zürich

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The main work of the foundation consists of publishing scholarly catalogue raisonnés and publications on Camille Graeser. The foundation also organizes and provides support for exhibition projects in Switzerland and abroad.

Camille Graeser-Preis (Camille Graeser Prize)

Between 1982 and 1992, the foundation awarded a Camille Graeser Prize.

Prizewinners of the Camille Graeser-Stiftung were:
1982 Marc Hostettler, Neuchâtel, publisher of graphics 
1983 Lydia Megert, Bern, gallerist
1984 Serge Lemoine, Paris, art historian; Director at the time of the Musée de Grenoble
1985 Friedrich W. Heckmanns, art historian, then head of the Kupferstichkabinett (gallery of prints) at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
1986 Marcel Wyss, Bern, publisher and artist
1986 Thomas Bächli, Zurich, pianist (promotional award)
1987 Hansjörg Glattfelder, Paris, painter
1988 Aurélie Nemours, Paris, painter
1988 Diet Sayler, Nuremberg, artist
1989 Nelly Rudin, Zurich, artist
1989 Annemarie and Gianfranco Verna, Zurich, gallerists
1989 Rudolf de Crignis, Winterthur, painter (promotional award)
1990 Hartmut Böhm, Lünen, object artist
1990 Andreas Brandt, Niebüll, painter
1990 Manfred Mohr, New York, artist
1992 Mario Nigro, Mailand, artist 
1992 Shizuko Yoshikawa, Zurich, artist
1992 Andreas Christen, Zurich, artist and designer

The foundation today provides targeted support to projects from the context of Concrete and Constructive art.

From 2010 to 2012, the foundation supported the Camille Graeser Lectures, a series of lectures on art history, originally organized by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, previously a professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, today the ETH (Federal Institute for Technology) Zurich.

Topics of the presentation series:

2010 Die Figur der Zwei – The Figure of the Two
2011 Was ist ein Weg? Bewegungsformen in einer globalen Welt – What is a Path? Forms of Movement in a Global World
2012 Transcultural Constructivism: International Contexts of Swiss Konkrete Kunst.

Since 2015, within the framework of the Camille Graeser Lectures the foundation has been awarding research commissions to art historians who then present their results in talks accompanying exhibitions on Constructive-Concrete art:

2015 Camille Graeser – der Fremde oder der Heimkehrer? Lecture by Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. 
(Lecture at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart on November 23, 2015, at 6 p.m.).

2016 Camille Graeser – Flüchtling oder Heimkehrer? Lecture by Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. 
(Lecture at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv on June 22, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.).

2019 Equivalence/Relationships - Camille and Emmy Graeser Lecture by Prof. Dr Antje Krause-Wahl, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Institute of Art History at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
(Lecture at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv on December 4, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
).

In 2019 the Camille Graeser Lectures took place in form of a symposium at the Kunsthalle Basel: Exhibition and Archive Histories Symposium, 9. November 2019. Lectures by Bruce Altshuler, Felix Thürlemann, Nora Fiechter and Adam Szymczyk.

The lecture series will be continued.