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Serge Stauffer Serge Stauffer ( born Werner Oscar Stauffer , 8 June 1929 – 17 September 1989 ) was a Swiss artist and art educator . He was one of the co-founders of the F+F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung in Zurich and known for his German translations of the works of Marcel Duchamp . Stauffer can be considered to have pioneered art as research . Life and work . From 1952 to 1955 , Stauffer trained as a photographer under Hans Finsler and Alfred Willimann at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich KGSZ . During this period , he met his future wife Doris Stauffer-Kloetzer . Stauffer first became known for his German translation of Eugène Ionescos play The Bald Soprano , which premiered at the Klein-Theater Bern in 1956 ( among other actors , its cast included Daniel Spoerri ) and was published by Luchterhand in 1959 . As a photographer , Stauffer worked for Josef Müller-Brockmann’s graphic design studio , before returning to the KGSZ in 1957 to teach photographics and experimental photography . From 1957 to 1964 , he designed exhibitions , catalogs , and posters . Among other projects , he worked on Dokumentation über Marcel Duchamp ( 1960 ) , an exhibition organised by Max Bill at Zurich’s Museum of Design . Stauffer’s early work includes the playful object Jardin public ( 1960 ) , which was published as an edition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1961 . In the period 1962–1964 , he undertook comprehensive studies on optical illusions , which he called geometrical-optical illusions ( g.o.t ) , using geometrical drawings and photogrammes . From 1964 to 1965 Stauffer taught at the Bath Academy of Art , in Corsham , England . In 1964 , Stauffer and Hansjörg Mattmüller laid the foundation for an experimental arts class . A year later , in 1965 , the class opened its doors as the F+F ( short for Form und Farbe , i.e. , form and colour ) at the KGSZ . Following a move to abolish the F+F course on Teamwork , established by Doris Stauffer , and to introduce unacceptable teaching conditions , in March 1970 a council of students and teachers jointly decided to dissolve the F+F and to dismiss all teaching staff . Following this decision , Bendicht Fivian , Peter Gygax , Peter Jenny , Hansjörg Mattmüller , Doris Stauffer , and Serge Stauffer established the F+F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung , a privately run art school , in January 1971 . One of their rolemodels for a liberated art-education was the Summerhill School in Leiston , Suffolk , England . Tom Holert , the German art historian , has described how artists like Allan Kaprow , Nam June Paik , Asger Jorn , and the artist and philosopher Piero Simondo had been exploring possibilities for conducting artistic research since the 1950s and 60s . Already while teaching at the KGSZ , Stauffer had started elaborating concepts for art as research . In 1968 , he delivered a paper at the conference of the Schweizerische Werkbund ( SWB ) on the artist as researcher . In 1976 , he presented his Thesen zu Kunst als Forschung [ Theses on Art as Research ] within the context of an F+F exhibition held in the lobby of the Kunsthaus Zürich . In 1978–79 , Stauffer lectured on Art as Research at the Department of Art History of the University of Zurich . In 1981 , he published an essay on Art as Research in the book Genie gibt′s – Die siebziger Jahre an der F&F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung . From 1956 to 1967 , Stauffer entered into a lengthy correspondence with Marcel Duchamp , whose work he explored in great detail . His extensive research on Duchamp led to the publication in 1973 of the book Ready Made – 180 Aussprüche aus Interviews mit Marcel Duchamp . This was followed in 1981 by Die Schriften – Zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichte Texte mit übersetzten und faksimilierten Texten von Marcel Duchamp , which Stauffer co-edited with Theo Ruff . The volume Marcel Duchamp : Interviews und Statements was published posthumously in 1992 . Stauffer maintained a lifelong friendship with the Swiss artist and poet André Thomkins , which resulted in an extensive correspondence . Their friendship is documented in Thomkins’s monograph Oh ! Cet Echo ! ( 1985 ) . Serge and Doris Stauffer’s estate is housed at Swiss National Library in Bern , Serge Stauffers studies on Duchamp at the Duchamp Cabinet in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart . His life and work , and his reflections on Art as Research , are the subject of a research project launched in 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Art Research of Zurich University of the Arts ( ZHdK ) . Based on this research project the exhibition Serge Stauffer – Kunst als Forschung opened at Helmhaus Zürich ( 2013 ) . Selected works . - ca . 1955 , Post Card – ready made in Europe , photographic postcards - 1961 , Jardin public , playing cards’ edition , Edition by Moderna Museet Stockholm - 1962–64 , geometrisch-optische Täuschungen ( g.o.T. ) , artistic studies - 1968 , b-room , graphic print edition - ca . 1980 , an einem ohr blind , projekt einer weltsprache , card game A list of works was published in Helmhaus Zürich ( ed. ) : Serge Stauffer , Kunst als Forschung , Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess Edition , 2013 , pp.287–301 . Editions and translations ( selected ) . - Eugène Ionesco : Die kahle Sängerin . Translated from French by Serge Stauffer . In : Eugène Ionesco : Theaterstücke . Vol . 1 . Darmstadt : Luchterhand Verlag , 1959 . - Hans-Rudolf Lutz , Hansjörg Mattmüller , Serge Stauffer ( eds. ) : Experiment F+F . 1965–1970 . Zürich : Verlag H.R . Lutz , [ 1970 ] . - Marcel Duchamp : Ready Made ! 180 Aussprüche aus Interviews mit Marcel Duchamp . Ed . Serge Stauffer . Zürich : Regenbogen Verlag , 1973 . - Marcel Duchamp : Die Schriften . Band 1 . Zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichte Texte . Translated , commented , and edited by Serge Stauffer . Zürich : Regenbogen-Verlag , 1981 . - André Thomkins , Serge Stauffer : Correspondance 1948–1977 . Transcription et montage par Serge Stauffer . Stuttgart , London : Edition Hansjörg Mayer , 1985 . - Serge Stauffer : Marcel Duchamp . Interviews und Statements . Gesammelt , übersetzt und annotiert von Serge Stauffer . Ed . Ulrike Gauss . Stuttgart : Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ; Ostfildern-Ruit : Edition Cantz , 1992 . Articles , book contributions ( selection ) . - Stilgeschichte des Films . In : Hans Fischli , Willy Rotzler ( eds. ) : Der Film . Geschichte , Technik , Gestaltungsmittel , Bedeutung . [ exhibition catalog ] . Zürich : Kunstgewerbemuseum , 1960 . Unpaginated - Der Traum eines Briefträgers . In : du , Kulturelle Monatsschrift , no . 247 , September 1961 . p . 47f . - 100 Fragen [ questions for Karl Gerstner , Dieter Roth , Daniel Spoerri , André Thomkins ] . In : Karl Gerstner et al . ( eds. ) : freunde + freunde . friends + fruend . [ published to accompany the exhibition Fründ , friends , Freunde und Freunde at the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ] . Stuttgart : Edition Hansjörg Mayer , 1969 . Unpaginated . - Kunst als Forschung . In : Gerhard Johann Lischka , Hansjörg Mattmüller ( eds. ) : Genie gibt′s . Die siebziger Jahre an der F&F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung . Frankfurt am Main : Betzel Verlag , 1981 . pp . 61–92 . - « L′homme le plus sérieux du monde » . Marcel Duchamp als Schachspieler . In : du . Die Kunstzeitschrift , no . 1 , 1982 . pp . 62–65 . - Brief . In : André Thomkins : Oh ! Cet Echo ! André Thomkins an Serge Stauffer . Dokumente einer Freundschaft mit Echo . Stuttgart , London : Edition Hansjörg Mayer , 1985 . pp . 41–59 . Literature . - Konrad Heidkamp : Lächelnd im Schatten , sogar . Porträt und Nachruf : Serge Stauffer . In : WOZ , no . 42 , 20 . October 1989 . p . 19 . - Franziska Wiesner : Serge Stauffer . Jardin Public . In : Fabrikzeitung , no . 276 ( PDF ; 2,8 MB ) , November 2011 . Unpaginated . - Helmhaus Zürich ( ed. ) : Serge Stauffer , Kunst als Forschung , Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess Edition , 2013 . External links . - Veit Stauffer on Serge Stauffer - Archive of Zurich University of Art - Research Project «Serge Stauffer - Art as Research» - Swiss National Library : Archiv Serge und Doris Stauffer - Helmhaus Zürich : Serge Stauffer – Kunst als Forschung