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ID: 500355562
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500355562

 

Record Type: Person
Schulthess, Armand (Swiss self-taught artist, 1901-1972)

Note: Reclusive Swiss artist created an environment that he considered a garden of human knowledge. He created and displayed metal tablets inscribed with texts on various subjects, sometimes arrayed in sculptural constructions. He also assembled collaged "encyclopedias" of found materials. At his death most of his work was destroyed by his heirs.

Names:
Schulthess, Armand (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Armand Schulthess (V,display)
Schulthess, Alfred Fernand Armand (V)

Nationalities:
Swiss (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
installation artist
self-taught artist
naive artist
environmental artist
folk artist
textile artist

Gender: male

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Schulthess, Armand (I)

Biographies:
(Swiss self-taught artist, 1901-1972) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Swiss sculptor, 1901-1972) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Armand Schulthess ........ [GRISC, VP]
....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Schulthess, Alfred Fernand Armand ........ [VP]
..................................................................  SIKART: Lexicon on Art in Switzerland (2013-)
Schulthess, Armand ........ [GRISC Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
......................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 227616
......................................  SIKART: Lexicon on Art in Switzerland (2013-)
......................................  Szeemann, Szeemann: with by through because towards despite (2007)

Subject: ........ [GRISC, RKD, VP]
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 227616
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q677828
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... SIKART: Lexicon on Art in Switzerland (2013-)
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