Walter Strack

Walter Strack, born November 29, 1936 in Revin, is a Franco-Swiss bi-national painter and sculptor. After a brief period of Tachist abstraction and another of Pop Art, he became one of the European representatives of concrete art, or constructed art.

He spent his childhood in Paris then his adolescence in Switzerland where he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Zurich, working in particular under the direction of Johannes Itten. In 1957, he had his first solo exhibition in a gallery in Zurich. Two years later, in 1959, he left Switzerland to settle in Paris.

In 1965, he was selected for the fourth Biennale de Paris, French section. The following year, he obtained a Swiss federal scholarship on the recommendation of Max Bil. Still in 1966, he represented Switzerland at the International Mostra d'arte “Premio del Fiorino” in Florence. In 1972, he moved to a farm in the south of the Paris region.

In 1973, he joined a group of painters, the International Group for Constructive Creation, with exhibitions in Germany, Belgium and Italy. In 1984, he produced a monumental sculpture for the sports park for Winterthur (Switzerland), and, in 1987, a 12-meter-high sculpture at the Kreuzlingen marina on Lake Constance.