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Uwe Wittwer (born 1954) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. The media he uses include watercolor, oil painting, inkjet prints and video. ==Life and work== Uwe Wittwer is an autodidact. Born 1954 in Zurich where he went to school, he originally trained as a social worker (Bern, 1974–1977). In 1979 he rented his first studio. His early works were colourful abstract expressive oil paintings. The change towards figurative painting took place during the mid 80s. His first solo exhibition was at ''Galerie Walcheturm'', Zurich in 1983. In 1989 he spent time in London on a studio grant (Binz 39 Foundation, Zurich). In 1994 studied in Paris for a year, financed by a grant by the Canton Zurich. In the same year, he received the Swiss federal scholarship for the arts. 1998 solo exhibition at ''Helmhaus Zurich'', the first time his digitally edited photographs were shown. Since then, digitally manipulated images are part of his work.〔Kraft, Martin (1998). ''Biografisches Lexikon der Schweizer Kunst'', Zurich und Lausanne: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung〕〔 He works with images downloaded from the internet.〔 'Uwe Wittwer is a painter with a restricted, a ritualised vocabulary';〔Lienhard, Marie-Louise (1998). 'Uwe Wittwer', Zurich: Helmhaus Zurich. ISBN 3-906396-42-8〕 his motifs consist of four main subjects: landscapes, cities, still lifes and portraits, - later condensed into three main themes: idyll, referential work and the theme of violence.〔Sarah Kent (2007): 'Public Pictures, Private Lives', in ''Uwe Wittwer - Hail and Snow''. Haunch of Venison, Zurich / London, ISBN 978-1-905620-17-3〕〔Kunde, Harald (2005). 'Conjectures About What Is Possible', in ''Uwe Wittwer - Geblendet/Dazzled, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag. ISBN 3-936636-56-7〕 The works of reference〔Also termed ''Appropriation Art''. Vögele, Christoph (2005). ''The Double Image - Uwe Wittwer and Appropriation Art'', Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, page 35.〕 encompass interiors and still lifes of Dutch Masters, such as Pieter de Hooch or Willem Kalf and works by French and British masters like Jean Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin, Thomas Gainsborough.〔''Uwe Wittwer - Paintings'' (2013), Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7757-3316-8〕 Another recurring image is that of Charon in his boat, based on Arnold Böcklin's ''Isle of the Dead''.〔Rogers, Nick (2013). 'In the Middle Distance', exhibition brochure, Lakeland Arts Trust, Abbot Hall, Kendal〕 The theme of violence covers subjects like 'free time' of American soldiers in the Vietnam war,〔Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2005). ''Sidelines'' in 'Uwe Wittwer - Geblendet/Dazzled', Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag〕〔Stegmann, Markus (2005). ''Uwe Wittwer - Monsun I-III''. Édition Idéal, Zurich〕 ruins of bombed out cities or scorched family homes.〔〔 Uwe Wittwer's work is underlined by 'the question of what a picture is'〔Tobler, Konrad (2005). 'Uwe Wittwer - Geblendet/Dazzled', Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, page 48. ISBN 3-936636-56-7〕 and the question how memory affects images.〔Tobler, Konrad (2002). ''Painting As Forward Recollection'', 'Musterbuch II', Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter, Basel and Zurich〕 Uwe Wittwer was guest tutor at the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (1998–2000) and at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2010) In 2008 he was voted into ''The 50 most important artists of Switzerland'' List by Bilanz Magazine. In 2013 two of his works were added to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uwe Wittwer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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