Louis Soutter

(Swiss, 1871–1942)

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Louis Soutter

Un fils nous est donné, ca. 1923

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Louis Soutter

Lutte du dogme et de la licence, ca. 1923

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Biography

Timeline

1871
Born, June 4 Morges, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
1888 - 1890
Studied at Collège Gaillard & The Ecole Industrielle Lausanne, Switzerland
1897
Becomes Director, Colorado College Art Department, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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
Studied old masters and Romanesque sculpture
1942
Died in Ballaigues

Exhibitions

2005
Internationale Zeichnungen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2003
Louis Soutter Drawings, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2002 - 2003
Louis Soutter et les modernes, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; 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, Munster, Germany
1985
Louis Soutter, Zeichnungen, Bücher, Fingermalereien, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 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, Germany
Louis Soutter, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau, Switzerland