Kunstmuseum luzern helmut federle biography
Kunstmuseum luzern helmut federle biography.
Helmut federle biography
Helmut Federle
Swiss painter
Helmut Federle | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Painter |
Helmut Federle is a Swisspainter.
Life
Federle spent his childhood and youth in St. Margrethen close to St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 1959, he created his first small paintings with his initials HF as a motif.[1]
From 1964, Federle studied at the School of Applied Art in Basel.
In 1969 and 1971, he received a federal scholarship.
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In the following year, Federle travelled to Tunisia and the United States, where he studied for example the works of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin. Together with his fellow artist and friend Martin Disler he exhibited in 1976 in the Kunstmuseum der Stadt Solothurn.
Motifs at this time were mountains reduced to small triangles.
In 1979, Federle exhibited large-scaled canvases with geometric forms in the Kunsthalle Basel. The exhibition was mostly misunderstood. In 1979 and 1980, Federle lived in New York City where he was featured in