Urs Lüthi

Urs Lüthi was born 1947 in Lucerne (Kriens) in Switzerland. From 1963–1964 School of Applied Arts in Zurich. In 1964, he moved permanently to Zurich. From 1968 to 1971 he shared a studio with Davis Weiss. After an initial artistic phase in which he produced large-format conceptual pop art works and an existential crisis in the late 1960s, Urs Lüthi started to use with the performative photography, in which he consistently used himself both as used constantly ago by actor and conceptual model to create images related to his art and life. From 1991–2013, he taught at the Art Academy of Kassel. Urs Lüthi lives and work in Munich.