Richard Paul Lohse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Paul Lohse

Swiss artist (1902-1988)

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1902

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1988

Profession: architect, painter

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Richard Paul Lohse

  • Richard Paul Lohse (September 13, 1902, Zurich - September 16, 1988, Zurich) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist and one of the main representatives of the concrete and constructive art movements. Lohse was born in Zürich in 1902.
  • His wish to study in Paris was thwarted due to his difficult economic circumstances.
  • In 1918, he joined the advertising agency Max Dalang, where he trained to become an advertising designer.
  • Lohse, then an autodidact, painted expressive, late-cubist still lifes. In the 1930s, his work as a graphic artist and book designer placed him among the pioneers of modern Swiss graphic design; in paintings of this period, he worked on curved and diagonal constructions.
  • Success eventually allowed him to establish his own graphic design studio in Zürich.He combined art with a political and moral awareness, which led him to be an activist for immigrants.
  • In the 1930s, he was actively involved in protests, which were illegal under the government of the time.
  • He continued to protest until the beginning of World War II.In 1937, Lohse co-founded Allianz, an association of Swiss modern artists, with Leo Leuppi.
  • In 1938, he helped Irmgard Burchard, to whom he was married for a brief time, to organise the London exhibition "Twentieth Century German Art".
  • His political convictions then led him into the resistance movement, where he met his future wife Ida Alis Dürner. The year 1943 marked a breakthrough in Lohse's painting: he standardised the pictorial means and started to develop modular and serial systems.
  • In 1953, he published the book New Design in Exhibitions, and from 1958, he became co-editor of the magazine Neue Grafik.Lohse's typical classic paintings are nonrepresentational, systematic, two-dimensional laminar planes of interacting colour elements in various logical/mathematical relations visible to the eye, using the structure of colour that we perceive, and in a way that every element plays an equal qualitative role. He died in Zürich in 1988.

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