»A New Way of Painting«

The story begins in 1922: Lise Gujer (1893-1967), originally from Zurich, discovered an old loom in her newly rented house in Davos and began to gain her first self-taught experience in weaving. Shortly afterwards, she met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in her circle of friends in Davos and produced tapestries based on his expressionist works. This is how their collaboration developed: Kirchner provided the patterns for Gujer's tapestries. They worked together successfully for 16 years almost without interruption until Kirchner's death in 1938. At the beginning of the 1950s, there was a renewed interest in Gujer's woven works, whereupon the artist resumed her work and created new tapestries with motifs by Kirchner. The Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur tells of the intensive artistic exchange between Gujer and Kirchner in Lise Gujer. A New Way of Painting. The exhibition, staged by the artist and designer duo Kueng Caputo, runs from August 24 to November 17.

After Kirchner's death, Lise Gujer created a »memorial to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner« in her house in the Sertig Valley near Davos with numerous pieces of his furniture and works of art. Gujer's weavings and some of Kirchner's works from her private collection were auctioned off in 1968, a year after her death, and are now in various private and museum collections. The collaboration between Gujer and Kirchner was previously exhibited at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe (2001) and also at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur in 2009.