Iwan Wirth

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Iwan Wirth
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Zurich, Switzerland [1]
NationalitySwiss
OccupationArt dealer
Years active1990 to present
Known forCo-founder, Hauser & Wirth
SpouseManuela Hauser (m. 1996)

Iwan Wirth (born 1970) is a Swiss art dealer and the president and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, a contemporary art gallery. [2]

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Life and career

Iwan Wirth was born in 1970 [2] and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland, [3] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher. [4] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen, [5] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990. [6]

Hauser & Wirth

In 1992, Wirth opened the Hauser & Wirth gallery together with his wife Manuela and her mother Ursula, heirs to the Fust retail fortune. [7] [8]

Other activities

In addition to his commercial activities, Wirth holds a variety of advisory positions, including:

From 1998 until 2009, Wirth and David Zwirner operated Zwirner & Wirth, which focused on private sales, in New York. [8]

In 2014, Wirth opened an arts complex in Bruton, Somerset, which includes the Roth Bar & Grill restaurant and a guesthouse hotel in the Durslade Farmhouse. The public garden is designed by Piet Oudolf. [7] He later purchased a hotel in Braemar, in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. [12] [13] He is also part-owner of 'Manuela', a restaurant at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex in Los Angeles. [14]

Recognition

In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReview's list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'. [15] [16] In 2012, Wirth and his wife endowed a senior lecturer position in modern and contemporary Asian art for the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [17] In 2015, both were awarded honorary doctorates by Bath Spa University. [18]

Iwan and Manuela Wirth were named one of the 'Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019' by Town & Country, [19] after founding Hauser & Wirth Institute [20] and donating $1 million to Cal State LA through a partnership with Hauser & Wirth. [21]

Personal life

Iwan Wirth married Manuela Hauser, a former teacher, in 1996. [8] They have four children. [22]

They lived in Zurich until 2005, when the family moved to London's Holland Park. In 2007, the family made Somerset their primary residence. [7] They maintain apartments in London and New York [8] and a holiday home on Menorca's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace. [23]

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