Robert Indermaur
Robert Indermaur | |
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Born |
Chur, Switzerland[1] | June 9, 1947
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation | painter, sculptor |
Spouse(s) | Barbara Indermaur[2] |
Children | 3 (including Rebecca Indermaur) |
Website | Indermaur.net |
Robert Indermaur (born 9 June 1947) is a Swiss painter and sculptor.
Personal life
Robert Indermaur was born on 9 June 1947 in Chur, Switzerland, the second of three children.[3] He is a member of the In der Maur family. He attended the Bündner Lehrerseminar school in Chur[4][5] and in 1967 graduated from a teaching seminar course. Upon graduation, he traveled around Europe, Asia, and Africa. For the next year he worked as a primary school teacher in St. Antönien.[6] In 1974 he met a woman named Barbara whom he married in 1975 and had three children; Rebecca, Alexander, and Adrian.[7][8] Together they founded a "small theater" in Chur, called the Klibühni Schnidrzunft.[9] They ran it for ten years and lived in an apartment above it.[10] In 1983 he moved to Almens.[11] Indermaur is a practicing Scientologist and a financial contributor to the Church of Scientology.[12]
Artistic career
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Indermaur became a freelance artist in 1969.[6] His paintings began to garner significant attention in the mid-1970s.[13]
Indermaur tends to paint in series, creating as many as 50–75 works all related to a single theme. From 1982 to 1983 he painted sofas and from 1986 to 1987 he painted a "between rooms" series, which displayed subjects in doorways and hallways.[14]
In 1977, Indermaur and graphic artist Albert Brun published the satirical magazine Das Ballhorn in six editions.[15]
In 2011, Indermaur was among a list of artists who signed the Declaration of Swiss Artists Responding to the Palestinian Appeal for Solidarity.[16]
Citations
- ↑ https://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/regions/jura-jura-bernois/indermaur-creera-l-evenement-de-l-ete-32085
- ↑ https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/one-hundred-years-of-baking-biscuits/28765746
- ↑ Kunstkeller Bern 1989, p. 119.
- ↑ "Hochsitz by Robert Indermaur". Liechtenstein. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
- ↑ https://wurth-international.com/en/art-culture/art/indermaur/preview-artist/
- 1 2 Grütter 2007
- ↑ http://indermaur.net/de/biografie
- ↑ https://www.salzburgerlab.org/team/adrian_indermaur/
- ↑ https://www.suedostschweiz.ch/zeitung/als-indermaurs-wohnung-zum-kulturzentrum-wurde
- ↑ "Grosse Kunst" (in German). Schweizer Illustrierte. 15 May 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ↑ Kunstkeller Bern 1989, p. 119
- ↑ https://www.scribd.com/doc/117782611/Super-Power-Cornerstone-Newsletter-2009
- ↑ Kunstkeller Bern 1989, p. 7
- ↑ Kunstkeller Bern 1989, pp. 8–9
- ↑ http://www.schoeneck.ch/index.php?id=126
- ↑ http://pacbi.org/pacbi140812/?p=1763
References
- Grütter, Tina (2007). "Indermaur, Robert" (in German). SIKART. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
- Robert Indermaur: Departure (in English, German, and French). Kunstkeller Bern. 1989. ISBN 3-906626-02-4.
- Rutschmann, Martina (2 April 2015). "Wo ist der "Güxslimann" vom Steinengraben?" (in German). Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. Retrieved 2 January 2017.