Background
Markus Raetz was born on June 6, 1941 in Büren An Der Aare, Bern, Switzerland.
Markus Raetz was born on June 6, 1941 in Büren An Der Aare, Bern, Switzerland.
Markus Raetz obtained a teacher's education.
Raetz started his career as a primary school teacher, a post he held until 1963. Having always maintained a keen personal interest in printmaking and ways of perceiving form and space, he began pursuing artistic career in the 1970s.
In 1977, the painter participated in São Paulo Art Biennial, where he represented Switzerland.
In the 1980s, he started to make sculptures. His first work was the sculpture "Der Kopf" in the Merian Park in Basel (1984).
In 2009, he took part in Moscow Biennale.
Raetz has exhibited works at numerous international exhibitions, including the exhibition of contemporary art "documenta" 4, 5 and 7.
Quotations:
"I am doing things everybody can understand. It is not complicated work. I can see that in the reaction of children."
"What matters to me is people moving around the work and perceiving it differently according their positions in space."
In his own way, Markus Raetz is a bricoleur and philosopher, an amorous and generous moralist, constantly busy finding ways to rework reality, without adding anything useless, but always to see it anew.
Markus married Monika Müller in 1970. The couple has a daughter Aimee Raetz.