Lucienne Peiry
- January 6, 2024
- Art Historian
Quick Facts
Full Name | Lucienne Peiry |
Occupation | Art Historian |
Date Of Birth | Sep 4, 1961(1961-09-04) |
Age | 63 |
Birthplace | Lausanne |
Country | Switzerland |
Birth City | Vaud |
Horoscope | Virgo |
Lucienne Peiry Biography
Name | Lucienne Peiry |
Birthday | Sep 4 |
Birth Year | 1961 |
Place Of Birth | Lausanne |
Home Town | Vaud |
Birth Country | Switzerland |
Birth Sign | Virgo |
Lucienne Peiry is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on September 4, 1961 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. Lucienne Peiry was born in Lausanne, 4 September 1961. She holds a doctorate in the history and art of art. Since 2010, she has been giving lectures in Europe and Switzerland. She teaches Outsider Art at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, College of Humanities in Lausanne. She has been teaching at the University of Lausanne’s Department of Social and Political Sciences since 2016.
She organized an exhibit on Louis Soutter in 2003 (title: “Louis Soutter and la musique”) jointly with the Basel Museum of Art, Cantonal Museum of Fine Art Lausanne, and the Cantonal Museum of Fine Art Lausanne. Christian Zacharias (director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, OCL) was a participant in the project. She established partnerships with various Swiss cultural institutions such as the Theatre de Vidy (Lausanne), the Museum of Art and History (Frebourg) and Lausanne’s Petit Theatre.
Appointed Director of Research and International Relations for the Collection de l’Art Brut in 2012, Lucienne Peiry gave up her position as museum director. She is now in charge of promoting the Lausanne museum abroad (exhibitions, lectures) and of seeking out new Outsider Art creators throughout the world (Europe, Asia, Africa, and more). She encourages studies on the creators she discovers, and on behalf of new publications and documentary films. She also lends advice to students and researchers, being called upon as an expert for works on Outsider Art at various universities (including the “hautes écoles”) in Switzerland and abroad.
The author of several works and articles on Outsider Art, Lucienne Peiry has also directed numerous publications and exhibition catalogues for the museum, including the cult book “Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne,” published by Flammarion-Skira of Paris in 2012 (French, English, German).
Lucienne Peiry encouraged the museum to coproduce or produce (with filmmakers Philippe Lespinasse et Erika Manoni), several documentaries about Outsider Art creators. She started a teaching program at the Collection de l’Art Brut in 2001 (young people guided tours, activities books and workshops), which she developed.
Lucienne Peiry Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Art Historian |
House | Living in own house. |
Lucienne Peiry is one of the richest Art Historian from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lucienne Peiry 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Lucienne Peiry, an ex-journalist with Radio suisse romande, was also a freelance curator of exhibitions (1987-2001). She took over from Michel Thevoz the management of Lausanne’s Collection de l’art brutal in 2001. She set up several temporary exhibitions, and expanded the museum’s collection by finding Outsider Art creators in Switzerland, China, Benin, India, and Bali.
Lucienne Peiry, a Fribourg native, was the first woman to earn a Phd. in History of Art in Lausanne (capital of Switzerland’s canton of Vaud). Her thesis was the first one to focus on “Art Brut” as well as the history of Jean Dubuffet’s collection. Flammarion (Paris), first published it as “L’Art Brut” (1997, new editions 2001, 2006 and 2010, English translation 2001; German translation 2005, Chinese translation 2015); in 2016, Flammarion published an expanded and updated version (400 pp., 500 illus). ).
Since 2012, she has also kept up a monthly artistic contribution for the RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) broadcasting company, on behalf of their “A vous de jouer” (your turn to play) program on Espace 2.
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