Urs Lüthi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Urs Lüthi

Swiss photographer and painter

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1947

Place of Birth: Kriens, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland

Profession: photographer, painter

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Urs Lüthi (born 1947, Kriens) is a Swiss conceptual artist who attended the School of Applied Arts in Zurich.
Noted for using his body and alter ego as the subject of his artworks, he has worked in photography, sculpture, performance, silk-screen, video and painting.
Since 1994, Lüthi has worked as university professor in Kassel, Germany and in 2009 Kassel gave Lüthi the Arnold-Bode-Preis award. Luthi and other artists of this period influenced Lou Reed.
He is mentioned as an influence in Reed’s Transformer’s catalogue which contains the hit drag anthem “Walk on the Wild Side” Luthi was part of a group of Continental European artist who were interested in, and “voiced, in their work, a desire for a utopian conception of androgyny, in which they would embody a unified ambisexuality or realize a perfect union with their lover.”