Iwan Wirth

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Iwan Wirth
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Zurich, Switzerland[1]
NationalitySwiss
OccupationArt dealer
Years active1990 to present
Known forCo-founder, Hauser & Wirth
SpouseManuela Hauser (m. 1996)

Iwan Wirth (born 1970) is a Swiss art dealer and the president and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, a contemporary art gallery.[2]

Life and career[edit]

Iwan Wirth was born in 1970[2] and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland,[3] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher.[4] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen,[5] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990.[6]

Hauser & Wirth[edit]

Main article: Hauser & Wirth

In 1992, Wirth opened the Hauser & Wirth gallery together with his wife Manuela and her mother Ursula, heirs to the Fust retail fortune.[7][8]

Other activities[edit]

In addition to his commercial activities, Wirth holds a variety of advisory positions, including:

From 1998 until 2009, Wirth and David Zwirner operated Zwirner & Wirth, which focused on private sales, in New York.[8]

In 2014, Wirth opened an arts complex in Bruton, Somerset, which includes the Roth Bar & Grill restaurant and a guesthouse hotel in the Durslade Farmhouse. The public garden is designed by Piet Oudolf.[7] He later purchased a hotel in Braemar, in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.[12][13] He is also part-owner of 'Manuela', a restaurant at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex in Los Angeles.[14]

Recognition[edit]

In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReview's list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'.[15][16] In 2012, Wirth and his wife endowed a senior lecturer position in modern and contemporary Asian art for the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.[17] In 2015, both were awarded honorary doctorates by Bath Spa University.[18]

Iwan and Manuela Wirth were named one of the 'Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019' by Town & Country,[19] after founding Hauser & Wirth Institute[20] and donating $1 million to Cal State LA through a partnership with Hauser & Wirth.[21]

Personal life[edit]

Iwan Wirth married Manuela Hauser, a former teacher, in 1996.[8] They have four children.[22]

They lived in Zurich until 2005, when the family moved to London's Holland Park. In 2007, the family made Somerset their primary residence.[7] They maintain apartments in London and New York[8] and a holiday home on Menorca's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace.[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ergebnis der Suche nach: nid=104170965X (in German). Leipzig; Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Nationalbibliothek. Accessed February 2018.
  2. ^ a b Nick Clark (23 October 2015). Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures. The Independent. Accessed August 2018.
  3. ^ Milner, Catherine (11 October 2010). "Iwan Wirth: the dealer who's bigger than Saatchi". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. ^ Rawsthorn, Alice (3 December 2006). "The Dealer". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  6. ^ "The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth's Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year". Observer. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  7. ^ a b c "The Gentlewoman – Manuela Wirth". thegentlewoman.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d Dan Duray (17 January 2012), The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year The New York Observer.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
  10. ^ Board of Trustees Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York.
  11. ^ Board of Trustees Royal Academy of Arts.
  12. ^ "'Art world royalty' bring investment to Braemar". Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  13. ^ Klingelfuss, Jessica (23 April 2018). "Art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth to open hotel in Scottish highlands". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  14. ^ Harris, Jenn (4 March 2016). "Manuela, the restaurant inside the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex downtown". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  15. ^ "We Broke Down ArtReview's Power 100 by Race, Gender, Profession, and Place of Birth". Artsy. 2 November 2017.
  16. ^ "Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview power list". BBC. 20 October 2016.
  17. ^ "How to give it: Iwan Wirth". Financial Times. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  18. ^ "Special honours at Bath Spa University graduation ceremonies". Bath Spa University. 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  19. ^ The Editors (22 May 2019). "Town & Country's Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019". Town & Country. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  20. ^ Greenberger, Alex (27 November 2018). "Aiming to Preserve Artists' Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects". ARTnews. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  21. ^ Vankin, Deborah (23 January 2019). "Cal State L.A. gets $1 million for student filmmaking from art gallery Hauser & Wirth". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  22. ^ Nick Clark (23 October 2015), Iwan Wirth: The more public half of the art world’s most powerful couple is a creative pirate who shares his treasures The Independent.
  23. ^ Maximilíano Durón (13 June 2019), Hauser & Wirth Will Open Exhibition Space, Residency Program on Menorca’s Isla del Rey ARTnews.
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