biographie de Hugo WEBER (1918-1971)

Birth place: Basel, Switzerland

Addresses: Chicago (immigrated 1940s); Basel and Paris (1955-60); Chicago, early 1960s; NYC (1960s-on)

Profession: Painter

Studied: sculpture apprenticeship with Ernst Suter in Basel, 1937-39; and with Gimond, Maillol and Arp in France.

Exhibited: AIC, 1947, 1949, 1951 (solo), 1953; TMA, 1947; Salon des Réalitiés, Paris, 1948, 1958-59; Colorado Springs FAC, 1950 ("Energetic Figures and Vision in Flux"); Galerie 16, Zurich, 1952; Inst. Design, Chicago, 1952; Galerie Parhass, Wuppertal, Germany, 1952; Allan Frumkin Gal., Chicago, 1953, 1955; Betty Parsons Gal., NYC, 1953, 1955, 1959; Galerie Hutter, Basel, 1953; American Univ., Beirut, Lebanon, 1954; WMAA, 1956; Guggenheim Mus., 1955; Neuchatel, Winterthur, Berlin, 1956-58; Galerie Creuze, Paris, 1957; Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 1957; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1957; Charleroi, Belgium, 1958; Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1960; Salon de Mai, Paris, 1961; American Acad., Paris, 1961; Holland Gal., Chicago, 1961; Gres Gal., Chicago, 1962; PAFA Ann., 1966.

Work: AIC; CM.

Comments: Teaching: Inst. Design ("Chicago Bauhaus"), 1949-55. Films by the artist: Vision in Flux", 1951; "Process Documentation by the Painter", 1954.

Sources: WW66; American Abstract Art, 201; Falk, Exh. Record Series.