Iwan Wirth
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Iwan Wirth
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Born |
1970 (age
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53)
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Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation | Art dealer |
Years active | 1990 to present |
Known for | Co-founder, Hauser & Wirth |
Spouse | Manuela Hauser (m. 1996) |
Iwan Wirth (born 1970) is a Swiss art dealer and the president and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth , a contemporary art gallery. [2]
Life and career
Iwan Wirth was born in 1970 [2] and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland , [3] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher. [4] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen, [5] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990. [6]
Hauser & Wirth
In 1992, Wirth opened the Hauser & Wirth gallery together with Manuela and Ursula, heirs to the Fust retail fortune. [7] [8]
Other activities
In addition to his commercial activities, Wirth holds a variety of advisory positions, including:
- California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), member of the board of trustees (since 2016) [9]
- Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York , member of the board of trustees (since 2016) [10]
- Maria Lassnig Foundation , member of the board of trustees (since 2015)
- Royal Academy of Arts , member of the board of trustees (since 2014) [11]
- Serpentine Gallery , member of the council
- Tate , member of the South Asian Acquisitions Committee
From 1998 until 2009, Wirth and David Zwirner operated Zwirner & Wirth, which focused on private sales, in New York. [8]
In 2014, Wirth opened an arts complex in Bruton , Somerset, which includes the Roth Bar & Grill restaurant and a guesthouse hotel in the Durslade Farmhouse. The public garden is designed by Piet Oudolf . [7] He later purchased a hotel in Braemar , in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. [12] [13] He is also part-owner of 'Manuela', a restaurant at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex in Los Angeles. [14]
Recognition
In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReview ' s list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'. [15] [16] In 2012, Wirth and his wife endowed a senior lecturer position in modern and contemporary Asian art for the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [17] In 2015, both were awarded honorary doctorates by Bath Spa University . [18]
Iwan and Manuela Wirth were named one of the 'Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019' by Town & Country, [19] after founding Hauser & Wirth Institute [20] and donating $1 million to Cal State LA through a partnership with Hauser & Wirth. [21]
Personal life
Iwan Wirth married Manuela Hauser, a former teacher, in 1996. [8] They have four children. [22]
They lived in Zurich until 2005, when the family moved to London's Holland Park . In 2007, the family made Somerset their primary residence. [7] They maintain apartments in London and New York [8] and a holiday home on Menorca 's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace . [23]
References
- ↑ Ergebnis der Suche nach: nid=104170965X (in German). Leipzig; Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Nationalbibliothek. Accessed February 2018.
- 1 2 Nick Clark (23 October 2015). Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures . The Independent . Accessed August 2018.
- ↑ Milner, Catherine (11 October 2010). "Iwan Wirth: the dealer who's bigger than Saatchi" . ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 4 October 2018 .
- ↑ Rawsthorn, Alice (3 December 2006). "The Dealer" . The New York Times . Retrieved 4 October 2018 .
- ↑ "Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures" . The Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2018 .
- ↑ "The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth's Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year" . Observer . 17 January 2012 . Retrieved 4 October 2018 .
- 1 2 3 "The Gentlewoman – Manuela Wirth" . thegentlewoman.co.uk . Retrieved 5 October 2018 .
- 1 2 3 4 Dan Duray (17 January 2012), The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year The New York Observer .
- ↑ Board of Trustees California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
- ↑ Board of Trustees Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York .
- ↑ Board of Trustees Royal Academy of Arts .
- ↑ " 'Art world royalty' bring investment to Braemar" . Retrieved 31 August 2018 .
- ↑ Klingelfuss, Jessica (23 April 2018). "Art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth to open hotel in Scottish highlands" . Wallpaper* . Retrieved 4 October 2018 .
- ↑ Harris, Jenn (4 March 2016). "Manuela, the restaurant inside the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex downtown" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 28 September 2017 .
- ↑ "We Broke Down ArtReview's Power 100 by Race, Gender, Profession, and Place of Birth" . Artsy. 2 November 2017.
- ↑ "Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview power list" . BBC. 20 October 2016.
- ↑ "How to give it: Iwan Wirth" . Financial Times . 10 February 2012 . Retrieved 5 October 2018 .
- ↑ "Special honours at Bath Spa University graduation ceremonies" . Bath Spa University . 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015 . Retrieved 28 September 2017 .
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The Editors (22 May 2019).
"Town & Country's Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019"
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has generic name ( help ) - ↑ Greenberger, Alex (27 November 2018). "Aiming to Preserve Artists' Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects" . ARTnews . Retrieved 17 June 2019 .
- ↑ Vankin, Deborah (23 January 2019). "Cal State L.A. gets $1 million for student filmmaking from art gallery Hauser & Wirth" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 17 June 2019 .
- ↑ Nick Clark (23 October 2015), Iwan Wirth: The more public half of the art world’s most powerful couple is a creative pirate who shares his treasures The Independent .
- ↑ Maximilíano Durón (13 June 2019), Hauser & Wirth Will Open Exhibition Space, Residency Program on Menorca’s Isla del Rey ARTnews .
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