Dieter Roth

Dieter Roth , born on April 21st, 1930 with Hanover and dead on June 5th, 1998 with Basle, is a printer and contemporary art Suisse of German origin .

Biography

Third wire of a couple germano-Switzerland, it grows and follows its studies to Hanover before moving with Zurich in 1943. His/her parents join it later three years and are established with Herisau from where Roth will follow its secondary studies to Saint-Gall. In 1946, it produces its first sculptures and paintings. The following year, it leaves the school to follow a training of graphic designer to Bern at Friedrich Wüthrich.

After a nervous breakdown and an suicide attempt in 1949, it is Conscientious objector and refuses to make its military service. In 1952, it will be definitively excluded from the armed for health reasons.

From 1955, it moves several times at Copenhagen, Reykjavík (where it becomes acquainted with his future wife Sigri∂ur Björnsdóttir), Philadelphia and New York. In 1964, it divorces after having had three children of his wife. It goes to Providence (Rhode Island) where it teaches graphic arts. He teaches then with London and Düsseldorf of 1968 with 1971.

Between 1971 and 1991, it will present several tens of exposures in Switzerland, in Iceland, in Germany, in Great Britain, in Austria. At the beginning of the Years 1990, it creates with Philipp R. Buse the Fondation Dieter Roth with Hamburg of which the goal is to collect and preserve a maximum of parts of the artist. The year of its death, Roth names Dirk Dobke as curator of the foundation before dying of an cardiac arrest.

Exposures

August 1st

Source

Biography on artnet

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