Title & Author:

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

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
In English and German.

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 8/10.00This 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.?00Art 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.

ISBN:

3039420313 (paperback)
9783039420315 (paperback)

Subject:

Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse 8/10 (Zurich, Switzerland)
Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse 8/10 (Zurich, Switzerland) History.
Architecture, Domestic Switzerland Zurich.
Artists' studios Switzerland Zurich.
Ateliers d'artiste Suisse Zurich.
Architecture, Domestic Switzerland.
Artists' studios Switzerland.
Architecture, Domestic
Artists' studios
Buildings
Zurich (Switzerland) Buildings, structures, etc.
Zurich (Suisse) Constructions.
Switzerland Zurich.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

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

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315450
Call No.: 315450
Copy: 1
Status: Available