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Curt Walter Tannhäuser

CWT was born in June 1949 in zurich (ch). He did an Apprenticeship as Chef, Restaurant Urania (ch) before he started his art practice in the 70s. One of his first hits was to become Head and teacher of the nameless Academie du Feu. Same time he studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts by Prof. Etienne Martin in Paris. Later he did a sculpture apprenticeship at Laszlo Szabo's Studio in Rue Delombre/ Montparnasse. Mid70s he travelled through USA, Mexiko & Guatamala. In the early 80s he was involved in some kind of city architecture, before he lived in zurich again and settled up in 1996 in Casa Orion/Monte (ch) to live and work with good foods & friends.

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Work + World

1972-76, Colorado Springs

"Wall of the Moon"
"Living Space"
"Portraits"

1977, Paris

"Fountain";"Inhabitable Sculpture"
"Art at the Grill"
"Miniature Village"
"each day an idea, each day a sculpture"
"Sand-, Earth-, Street- and Sea Work" Fictitious Villages, Ruins on Islands in Elburg, Lac de St. Mondé, Paris; Lake of Nicola and Lake of Litzen, Berlin, Lanzarote
Book with 81 drawings. Diary 44 pages

1979, Germany

"City of Change", clay pit Iphigenie, Langenaubach (d)
I Ging, an utopian city model; Sculpture and Ruin parish rooms Breitscheid
"City of the Earth People", quarry Erdbach (d)
"City of the Water People ", Koblenz (d)

1981, Bad Münster/Stein

Project Fountain "Wishing Well", Bad Münster a/Stein (d)

1982-85, Switzerland

"Presentation of Self"
"Masquerade", a collection of 3168 plaster casts of 3168 Individuals
Book "Helvi & Tell", 81 drawings
diary: 70 drawings
34 water-color paintings "Water is Life"
diary of 250 pages
Drawings: " Nazcali "
19 drawings; "Tränkeplatz"
"Also a Way", video with Manfred and Thilo Kage, Weissenstein (d)
diary 48 pages
"Bread Papers"
"My Reality of Nothing", 101 drawings
face studies, 35 drawings
book: 54 drawings

1987, Switzerland

"Bread Papers"
50 Holzschnitte, "in Memory of Joseph Beuys"
"mass Objects"
"Pyropeinture"
"Bread Cycle"
"Rage Mats", Work on Flour Sacks
"Places for Nesting, Place for Spawn"
"Nestoskop"
"Adam and Eve"
"Silent Reading Through"
"A one thousand mile long journey begins in front of your feet"

1990, Switzerland

"Collected Drawings 1981-89"
"Shadow on the lung", Conception of a dance theater performed by 7 dancers
"Withdrawal of Sensuality"
"I Fall to Pieces", 34 pages
"Restless", 4 pages
"Liberty in all doubt" 31 pages
"Welcome to paradise", 31 pages
PTT-Taxcard - Design CHF 20.-
"Veronese Chess", Sculpture

1992

Casein/Burn boards, 15 parts, A4
"Bird People", Sculptures
"Symbola", Silk painting, series 30/25, Water - Fire - Painting, series 25/12
Sculptures "Case"
"Performance"
"zhart" Art project the city of Zurich
Microscopic Photography "Performance"
Conception "zhart" for the city of Zurich
"Köpfchen - Series" and Photo folder, Edition12/12
Cover - Design for "X FADE" of Radio Osaka

1996

"Sculpture morte"
"Hold out" - Video
"Persist" Engineer - Sculpture

1997, Ticino

"Tannhäuser's Collections"
"Banquet of Colors" - Poetry of Colors, a spoken exhibition with colors
"Resolution", ca. 50 images, casein -, eitempera and venetian enamel oil - painting

1998

"Pentagramm" enamel-oil painting consisting of 17 parts, Triptychon
25 meters of picture roll, chin. brush technique
zhart events
"Chroma", Bühnenbild für Tanzevent

1999

Roll pictures on plexi glass , 10 meters and 25 meters
"I'me, jemoi, iomio, ichmich ", 80 Terrakotta - Sculptures
"1000 ich's", numerous Terrakotta - Sculptures
40 Terrakotta - Sculptures, various themes, photographed in spectral light, and painted paintings for the sculptures
"Sublim", Fassadengestaltung

2000

"Horssol" for the 1. Swiss Triennial of the Sculpture
Start der Webseite artsite.ch
sound recordings and CD "Horssol"

2001

Painting for the BPC, Lugano
1. Award for Sculpture, Zurich

2002

"Luce sotto la pelle", Isole di Brissago, Ticino
Trojanische Küche, Basel

2003

formation of Kunstverein Montearte
Flash'n Post Office Monte and Göschenen, Wasserwelten
Mailart noWaterWater, Unesco - year of the water 2003

2004

outline proposal „Generosa“, Monte. Painting „MicroColor“; „Generosa Enterprise“, ETH Zürich

2005

„Generosa Enterprise“, ETH Zürich; 150 Jahre ETH Zürich; and

2006

2006

Projekt "Generosa Enterprise" und Projekt "Carousel81" mit Benno Meuwly im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Visioni sul Monte" mit MonteArte | Homepage http://www.montearte.ch

2007

Projekt "in...boscamento" with Benno Meuwly, Monte | Homepage http://www.montearte.ch | see.....1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11

2008

Projekt "Lux Pons" with Benno Meuwly| 49 Proiezioni | 3 torri | 2 Sound Installazione | No mens Land | sab 04.10.2008 - dom 09.11.2008 | lu - dom: 20.30 - 21.30 | Entrata: Frontiera Svizzera – Italia (Dogana Chiasso – Ponte Chiasso Strada | Bi6 | Biennale dell'immagine Chiasso | The Lux Pons artistic project shall see the positioning of approx. 30-40 floodlights, set in the neutral zone, the ‘no man’s land’ between Switzerland and Italy, which will illuminate the fronts of houses, the niches, the land, the trees and the fields on both sides of the border. Through the propagation of light in various directions the divided territory shall be virtually unified