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...Ursula Hauser built a fortune with her brother Walter as partners in the Fust household appliances retail chain founded by their father August (she married Albert Hauser, its first employee, who died in...
...In bad weather, you can hunker down in the Steiner Stuba, a cosy sitting room with historic pine panelling and red plush seating, named after the Swiss photographer Albert Steiner, who documented life in...
...His gallery also brings a solo booth to the fair, with four paintings by Albert Oehlen....
...“The era of the IRL-only art fair is over,” declares Iwan Wirth, co-founder of global gallery Hauser & Wirth. But write off in-person events at your peril....
...Jungwirth, 81, has recently emerged from a period of relative obscurity and has been championed by artists including Albert Oehlen and Daniel Richter....
...The painter Albert Oehlen has been among those to champion Jungwirth in recent years....
...Married to Albert Hauser at 22, Ursula followed the path mapped out by her era: wife, mother and backstage worker in what she calls a “proper family business”, selling household appliances, which was founded...
...The mighty Hauser & Wirth has taken on the Bill estate, alongside that of his life-long friend Georges Vantongerloo, as the Max Bill Georges Vantongerloo Foundation....
...I went to his show at Hauser & Wirth in London recently and was impressed with how direct, powerful and abstract the work was....
...He displayed them at Hauser & Wirth’s gallery in Bruton, Somerset, earlier this year and often opens them up to students and academics in events and workshops and on his website....
...They can, for instance, use a light to scan a landscape by Etel Adnan on show in the current exhibition, Albert the Kid is Ghosting....
...Neil Wenman, director at London’s Hauser & Wirth gallery, which represents Rist and Sala, says that plasma technology has changed the way collectors view video art....
...His inaugural show of five works by the German painter Albert Oehlen was sold out before the opening, at prices between €175,000 and €285,000....
...“Too boring to discuss, the brush is now everything,” said Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth, whose stable includes conceptualist Martin Creed, installation artist Paul McCarthy and videomaker Pipilotti Rist,...
...In the 1970s and 1980s, dealers were not the international multi-gallery outfits typified by Gagosian or Hauser & Wirth today; they were local, with largely domestic collector bases and there was no Frieze...
...It is to be hoped that things will stabilise with the appointment of Gregor Muir, formerly at Hauser and Wirth, as new director....
...Ben Lewis is a documentary filmmaker and art critic The Turner Prize 2007, October 19-January 13 2008 at Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3. Tel: +44 (0)151-702 7400....
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