Biography.guide
Home › People › Actor › Ingeborg Lüscher
Portrait of Ingeborg Lüscher

Ingeborg Lüscher

b. 1936

German artist (born 1936)

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Ingeborg Lüscher

Born 1936. Ingeborg Lüscher is a Swiss and German actor, photographer, painter, visual artist, conceptual artist and video artist.

Ingeborg Lüscher (born 22 June 1936 in Freiberg) is a German/Swiss artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. Her work has been exhibited in many institutional venues around the world, including the Musée d‘art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Centre d‘Art Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.

In 2011 she was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize.

Since 1967 Lüscher works and lives in Tegna, Ticino, Switzerland.

She was first married to the Swiss psychotherapist Max Lüscher, then to the Swiss curator and art historian Harald Szeemann.

Books Ingeborg Lüscher: Dokumentation über Der grösste Vogel kann nicht fliegen. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1972. Ingeborg Lüscher: Erlebtes und Erdäumeltes einander zugeordnet. Oumansky-Preis, Fantonigrafica, Venice, 1975 Ingeborg Lüscher: Die Angst des Ikarus oder Hülsenfrüchte sind Schmetterlingsblütler. Aarau; Frankfurt; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1982. Ingeborg Lüscher: AVANT–APRES/Sheer Prophecy–True Dreams, centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, 1980 Ingeborg Lüscher: Der unerhörte Tourist–Laurence Pfautz. Aarau; Frankfurt am Main; Salzburg; Sauerländer 1985. (nur erhältlich bei Buchhandlung Libri & Arte in Locarno-Muralto) Ingeborg Lüscher and Adolf Muschg (Text): Japanische Glückszettel. Suhrkamp Insel Verlag 1996. Ingeborg Lüscher: Zaubererfotos/Magician Photos, JRP-Ringier, Zurich, 2010,

Literature MANUALE, A reference book about the works of Ingeborg Lüscher, Samuel Herzog (text), Niggli 1999, Viveri polifonici - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Mart, Rovereto, Skira, 2004. (texts in Italian and English by Antonio d’Avossa, Thomas McEvilley, Leila Kais and Juri Steiner) Lass einen Zweig von weißem Flieder in Südafrika - Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Museum Wiesbaden, 14. Mai - 23. Juli 2006. Wiesbaden 2006. (texts in German and English by Renate Petzinger, Hanne Dannenberger and Volker Rattemeyer) Das Licht und die Dunkelheit knapp unter den Füssen, Exhibition catalogue Ingeborg Lüscher, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 2016. (texts in German and English by Patricia Bieder, Hans-Joachim Müller, Michele Robecchi and Christoph Vögele)

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Also known as
Ingeborg Luscher, Ingeborg Luescher

People in Ingeborg Lüscher's life

Named in this biography and alive at the same time

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Ingeborg Lüscher's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ingeborg Lüscher?

German artist (born 1936)

When was Ingeborg Lüscher born?

Ingeborg Lüscher was born on 22 June 1936 in Freiberg.

What is Ingeborg Lüscher's occupation?

Ingeborg Lüscher is an actor, photographer, painter, visual artist, conceptual artist and video artist.

What nationality is Ingeborg Lüscher?

Ingeborg Lüscher is Swiss and German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ingeborg Lüscher

· Wikidata: Q90627

· DBpedia: Ingeborg Lüscher

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Ingeborg Lüscher. https://biography.guide/ingeborg-luscher/

MLA: "Ingeborg Lüscher." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/ingeborg-luscher/.

Chicago: "Ingeborg Lüscher." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/ingeborg-luscher/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-23 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Portrait: Wikimedia Commons · author & licence

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:06 UTC