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Louis Soutter    (Swiss, 1871-1942)

 Louis Soutter - Trois têtes tropiques (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 44 x w: 58 cm / h: 17.3 x w: 22.8 in
Louis Soutter
Trois têtes tropiques 1936
 
  

Biography
1871 Born, June 4 Morges, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
1888 - 1890 Studies, Collège Gaillard & The Ecole Industrielle Lausanne, Switzerland
1897 Becomes Director, Colorado College Art Department, Colorado Springs, CO
1897 Emigrates to USA
1907 Appointed first violinist in the Geneva orchestra Geneva, Switzerland
1922 Two month stay in a clinic for the mentally ill
1923 Studies old masters and Romanesque sculpture
1942 Dies in Ballaigues

Exhibitions
2002 - 2003 Louis Soutter et les modernes, Kunstmuseum Basel; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Louis Soutter et la Musique, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, traveling exhibition Switzerland
1991 - 1992 Visionäre Schweiz, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, traveling exhibition Germany/Switzerland
1991 Zeichnungen und Fingermalereien, Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
1985 Louis Soutter, Zeichnungen, Bücher, Fingermalereien, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, traveling exhibition Germany
1967 René Auberjonois, Marius Borgeaud, Louis Soutter, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Felix Vallotton: 5 Waadtländer Künstler, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Switzerland
1962 Meisterzeichnungen: René Auberjonois, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Schürch, Louis Soutter, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
1961 Das zeichnerische Werk, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Switzerland
1961 Louis Soutter, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
1939 Weyhe Gallery New York
1937 Vallotton Gallery Lausanne, Switzerland
1936 Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford, CT
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