Iwan Wirth Explained

Iwan Wirth
Birth Place:Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality:Swiss
Occupation:Art dealer
Years Active:1990 to present
Known For:Co-founder, Hauser & Wirth
Spouse:Manuela 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.

Life and career

Iwan Wirth was born in 1970 and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland,[1] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher.[2] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen,[3] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990.[4]

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.[5] [6]

Other activities

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.[6]

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. He later purchased a hotel in Braemar, in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.[10] [11] He is also part-owner of 'Manuela', a restaurant at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex in Los Angeles.[12]

Recognition

In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReviews list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'.[13] [14] 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.[15] In 2015, both were awarded honorary doctorates by Bath Spa University.[16]

Iwan and Manuela Wirth were named one of the 'Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019' by Town & Country,[17] after founding Hauser & Wirth Institute[18] and donating $1 million to Cal State LA through a partnership with Hauser & Wirth.[19]

Personal life

Iwan Wirth married Manuela Hauser, a former teacher, in 1996.[6] They have four children.[20]

They lived in Zurich until 2005, when the family moved to London's Holland Park. In 2007, the family made Somerset their primary residence.[5] They maintain apartments in London and New York[6] and a holiday home on Menorca's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace.[21]

Notes and References

  1. News: Iwan Wirth: the dealer who's bigger than Saatchi. Milner. Catherine. 11 October 2010. 2018-10-04. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  2. News: The Dealer. Rawsthorn. Alice. The New York Times . 3 December 2006 . 2018-10-04. en.
  3. News: Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures. The Independent. 2018-10-04. en-GB.
  4. News: The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth's Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year. 17 January 2012. Observer. 2018-10-04. en-US.
  5. Web site: The Gentlewoman – Manuela Wirth. thegentlewoman.co.uk. en. 2018-10-05.
  6. 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.
  7. https://calarts.edu/about/institute/mission-and-governance/board-of-trustees Board of Trustees
  8. https://www.swissinstitute.net/about/staff-board/ Board of Trustees
  9. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/royal-academy-trust Board of Trustees
  10. News: 'Art world royalty' bring investment to Braemar. 31 August 2018. en.
  11. News: Art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth to open hotel in Scottish highlands . Klingelfuss . Jessica . . 23 April 2018 . 4 October 2018.
  12. News: Manuela, the restaurant inside the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex downtown . Harris . Jenn . . 4 March 2016 . 28 September 2017.
  13. Web site: We Broke Down ArtReview's Power 100 by Race, Gender, Profession, and Place of Birth. Artsy. 2 November 2017.
  14. News: Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview power list . BBC . 20 October 2016.
  15. Web site: How to give it: Iwan Wirth. 10 February 2012. Financial Times. 5 October 2018.
  16. Web site: Special honours at Bath Spa University graduation ceremonies . . 21 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150907182102/http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/homepage/news/special-honours-at-bath-spa-university-graduation-ceremonies . 7 September 2015 . dead. 28 September 2017.
  17. Web site: Town & Country's Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019. The Editors. 22 May 2019. Town & Country.
  18. Web site: Aiming to Preserve Artists' Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects. Greenberger. Alex. 27 November 2018. ARTnews. en-US. 2019-06-17.
  19. Web site: Cal State L.A. gets $1 million for student filmmaking from art gallery Hauser & Wirth. Vankin. Deborah. Los Angeles Times. 23 January 2019 . 2019-06-17.
  20. 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.
  21. Maximilíano Durón (13 June 2019), Hauser & Wirth Will Open Exhibition Space, Residency Program on Menorca’s Isla del Rey ARTnews.

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