The Work of Art and its Venue

"Amden - the work of art and its venue" - art project Roman Kurzmeyer.

The mountain community of Amden was well known at the beginning of the 20th century as a centre of social and artistic experminentation.

The life-reforming settlement "Grappenhof" (1901 - 1906) in Amden and the artists' circle led by the painter Otto Meyer-Amden (1865 - 1933) were the theme of an exhibition in 1999 in the Glarus Art Museum and one on the site of the Amden settlement. The artists Anselm Stalder (Basel), Anya Gallacio (London) and Katharina Grosse (Düsseldorf) at the time created works related specifically to the spectacular landscape high above Lake Walen.

In 2001 Pawel Althamer (Warsaw) displayed his work done in Amden, the sculpture "Weronika" within an installation which also included drawings by his daughter Weronika. Anya Gallacio, who in 1999 had planted a row of apple trees in the vicinity of the house formerly occupied from time to time by the German painter Baumeister (1889-1955), came to Amden for a few days and adorned each tree with a gilded apple, all of them drying out in the summer months.

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Contact Information

Tourismus Amden-Weesen
Dorfstrasse 22
8873 Amden
Tel. +41 (0)55 611 14 13
Fax +41 (0)55 611 17 06
tourismus@amden.ch
www.amden.ch

Roman Kurzmeyer
"Amden - the work of art and its venue" in the Amden landscape is a long-term project of Roman Kurzmeyer's to enable artists staying in this topographically unique landscape with its cultural and artistic significance, the realization of works of art interpreting the spirit of this specific place as well as enabling the public to have an individual , contemplative reception of the works created.

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Contact Roman Kurzmeyer
roman.kurzmeyer@bluewin.ch
www.xcult.org

Publications Roman Kurzmeyer
¿Square and Cosmos" - Artists, Refromers, Occultists, Spiritualists in Amden 1901 - 1912, Max Nopper, Josua Klein, Fidus, Otto Meyer-Amden.

Edition Voldemeer, Springer Vienna NewYork, 1999
ISBN 3-211-83371-4

Publication Otto Meyer-Amden
Michael Stettler ¿Otto Meyer-Amden"

Editions Rencontre, 1970

Amden Museum
Works by Otto Meyer-Amden, pictures and texts about the Grappenhof and the artists colony centred on Josua Klein, Fidus, etc.