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Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1917, Claude Loewer works and lives in Montmollin (Neuchâtel). After receiving his high school degree (baccalaureate: classical studies section), he left for Paris, where he stayed from 1936 to 1940. There he first attended the independent academies of Ranson and Cola Rossi, before studying for three years at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He returned to Switzerland in 1940, where he settled permanently, dividing his time between easel painting and several forms of monumental art related to architecture. Loewer has executed numerous commissions for public buildings and private establishments in Switzerland and abroad, and his work has frequently gone on display in both group and solo shows.

Public collections

Swiss Confederation
Canton of Neuchâtel
Cities and museums in Switzerland
Paris, Mobilier National, the Gobelins tapestries
Aubusson, Ecole Nationale d'Arts Décoratifs
Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain
Lyon, Ecole Nationale de Tannerie

Private collections

Aarau, Abidjan, Angers, Aubusson, Bâle, Berne, Bienne, Bourges, Clermont-Ferrand, Delémont, Francfort-sur-le-Main, Genève, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Le Locle, Lugano, Lyon, Montréal, Neuchâtel, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapour, Zurich.

Solo exhibitions

1953, 1958, 1962, 1967, 1973

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux-Arts
1968, 1975, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997 Berne, Galerie Verena Muller
1969 Paris, Centre Culturel, Galerie des Arts
1971, 1972 Lyon, Galerie Verrière
1972 Paris, Galerie Verrière
1972 Bourges, Maison de la Culture
1978, 1980, 1983,1987,1992 Zurich, Galerie Palette
1981, 1983 Neuchâtel, Musée des Beaux-Arts
1982, 1994 Aarau, Argauer Kunsthaus
1982 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Galerie du Manoir
1984, 1987, 1994 Neuchâtel, Galerie Ditesheim
1998 Exposition rétrospective à l'espace culturel d'Assens (VD)
2000 Schweizerische paraplegikum Zentrum, Nottwil

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