The universe of Armand Schulthess
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Armand Schulthess was born in Neuchâtel. As a young man, he earned a business diploma before undertaking an apprenticeship in an import‑export company.
Armand Schulthess was born in Neuchâtel. As a young man, he earned a business diploma before undertaking an apprenticeship in an import‑export company. He then became the owner of a women's clothing manufacturing business established in Zurich, then in Geneva, but the firm went bankrupt. In 1939 he was hired as an office employee at the Federal Department of Economic Affairs in Bern. At the age of fifty, this civil servant of the Swiss Confederation abruptly cut all his professional and social ties. He permanently left his job and chose as a place of exile, both geographical and mental, a country house in Ticino that he had acquired ten years earlier. Cut off from the outside world, he thereafter devoted his life to shaping the vast land surrounding him. At his death, his heirs and the Ticino authorities decided to destroy his work. Only a few of his books, as well as a series of assemblages made from metal sheets, wire and branches, will be preserved.The German‑Swiss 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 converse with nearly 300 pieces drawn from the environment, which were saved at the last moment, including a very large corpus acquired in 2024 by the Collection de l’Art Brut, and unveiled here for the first time on the occasion of the Lausanne museum's fiftieth anniversary.In 1976, the year of its inauguration, it devoted its first temporary exhibition to this artistic production, with Hans‑Ulrich Schlumpf as curator. Fifty years later, a re‑imagined presentation accompanied by previously unseen pieces allows us to cast a new look at Armand Schulthess’s extraordinary work.Curator: Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf
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Full price: CHF 12
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