The World of Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess was born in Neuchâtel. As a young man, he earned a business degree before completing an apprenticeship at an import-export company.
Armand Schulthess was born in Neuchâtel. As a young man, he earned a business degree before completing an apprenticeship at an import-export company. He then became the owner of a women’s clothing company based first in Zurich and later in Geneva, but the business went bankrupt. In 1939, he was hired as a clerical worker at the Federal Department of Economic Affairs in Bern. At the age of fifty, this Swiss federal civil servant suddenly severed all his professional and social ties. He left his job for good and chose as his place of exile—both geographical and mental—a country house in Ticino that he had purchased ten years earlier. Cut off from the outside world, he devoted his life from then on to landscaping the vast grounds surrounding it. Upon his death, his heirs and the Ticino authorities decided to destroy his work. Only a few of his books, along with a series of assemblages made from metal plates, wire, and branches, were preserved.The Swiss-German filmmaker and photographer Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf was able to document and immortalize this monumental work as it existed before its destruction. In the exhibition, his photographs will engage in a dialogue with nearly 300 pieces from the installation, which were saved at the last minute, including a very significant collection acquired in 2024 by the Collection de l’Art Brut and unveiled here for the first time, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Lausanne museum. In 1976, the year of its opening, the museum dedicated its first temporary exhibition to this body of work, curated by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf. Fifty years later, a reimagined presentation featuring previously unseen works allows us to take a fresh look at Armand Schulthess’s extraordinary body of work. Curated by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf
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Full price: CHF 12
Reduced price: CHF 6
Groups of 6 or more: CHF 6
Unemployed individuals and youth up to age 16: Free
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