Louis GOERG-LAURESCH (* 1895, † 1950)

(Louis Goerg, Louis Ernest Goerg, Louis Ernest Goerg-Lauresch)

Louis Goerg-Lauresch (Louis Goerg, Louis Ernest Goerg, Louis Ernest Goerg-Lauresch) was a Swiss painter who won numerous awards and also created murals in public buildings.

Oil on canvas of La Chenaillette by Louis Goerg-Lauresch
Oil on canvas of La Chenaillette by Louis Goerg-Lauresch
 
 

1895
born in Geneva, Switzerland, as Louis Goerg into a family that had emigrated from Germany

1915
graduated from high school and received his first artistic training at school

1915-18
Louis Goerg-Lauresch studied drawing and composition with Serge Pahnke and E. van Muyden

1919
moved to Paris, where he attended the Académie Ranson; there he was a master student of Maurice Denis

1921
winner of the Calame competition

1922-1923
study trips to Germany

1924
study trips to Italy

1927
marriage to Hélène Lauresch in Geneva; birth of his daughter Marcelle

1928
settled in Geneva

1928, 1934 and 1944
exhibitions at the Musée Rath, where a retrospective with 150 exhibits also takes place in 1951

1930, 1938 and 1949
exhibitions at the Musée de l’Athénée

1931
winner of the Diday competition

1936 and 1938
winner of the Harvey competition

1939
wins competition for the decoration of the entrance hall to the auditorium on the first floor of the University of Geneva with the mural “Les Lettres et les Sciences”

1940-1942
teaches decorative painting at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Industriels in Geneva

1945
wins another competition for the University of Geneva, this time for a mural in the law library with “Solon.”

1944
Louis Goerg-Lauresch becomes professor of figure drawing at the École des Arts Industriels in Geneva

1950
dies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sources:
– Catalog of the exhibition “Louis Goerg-Lauresch” at the Palais de l’Athénée, Geneva, and the Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich, which took place in 1976. Éditions Robert, Moutier (Switzerland), 1976.
– Goerg, Louis | SIK-ISEA Recherche
– Goerg dit Goerg-Lauresch Louis | Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève