Biography
André Rogger, PhD, is an art historian and a collection curator and advisor.
Born 1966 in Lucerne, André studied art history and English literature at the Universities of Basel and Edinburgh. Later based in London and New Haven/CT he gained his PhD through a junior research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, for which he also won research grants from the Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica/CA and the Hunting-ton Library, San Marino/CA. His dissertation, on the significance of drawing for the English landscape garden around 1800, was later published as a book (Landscapes of Taste, 2007).
Other than landscape André's research today focuses on areas that are linked to his many years of professional expertise outside the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art: the reception of contemporary art in changing public and private contexts, or artistic work at the interface with design. He draws on his previous activities as curator of the collection of the Lucerne Art Museum and as head of the Credit Suisse Art Department and Collection.
André has been a part of the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art since 2003, mainly as lecturer and mentor in the BA Art (K++V). He is also responsible for three interdisciplinary modules (+Reflect, +Colabor).
In HS24/FS25 his courses include:
- Position week (K++V): «#Collection, #Reception: on collecting Art» (Oct. 24)
- Methodenmodul 1 (K++V): Introduction into Visual Culture (Nov. 24)
- Lecture series «Modern Art»: «The International Style» (Dec. 24)
- Point of View «Nature, Garden, Landscape» (with Theres Waeckerlin, Dec. 24)
- +Reflect-Module «Art and Economy» (Dec. 24)
- Methodenmodule 4 & 5 (K++V): Introduction and mentoring for seminar papers and BA thesis (Nov. 24 - June 25)
- +Reflect-Module «From Art Nouveau to Art Déco» (April 25)
- Lecture series «Post-war art»: «Land Art» (May 25)
- +Colabor-Module «Idea_Material_Zeitgeist» (May/June 2025)
A new research project is in progress, for proposal submission in FS25.
For his external activities as a curator and art advisor see https://www.linkedin.com/in/andré-r-860a79291/
Publications
- Monograph Sammlung Credit Suisse: Kunst im Geschäftsumfeld / Credit Suisse Collection: Art in a Business Context. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spies, 2011
- Website with videos, interviews and brochures of acquisitions and art projects of the Credit Suisse Collection, 2007 to 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20230927084918/https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/our-company/sponsorship/culture/fine-art/credit-suisse-collection.html
- Landscapes of Taste: the art of Humphry Repton’s Red Books, London/New York: Routledge, 2007
- Niklaus Pfyffer: Landschaftsmaler der Königin Victoria. Exhibtion Cat. Schloss Heidegg, Gelfingen, 2007
- Mark Zeugin (1930-2003): Grafiker. Luzern: Verlag SfG, 2005
- Die Red Books des Landschaftskünstlers Humphry Repton, Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004
- Die Sammlung L – Katalog einer Luzerner Privatsammlung. Luzern, 1999
- Landpartie – die Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Luzern auf Reisen im Kanton. Exhibition Cat. Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1998
- Ein Zwischen Blick auf die Sammlung - die graphische Abteilung. Exhibition Cat. Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1997
- „‘Alles sei ganz erneut‘ – Fritz Metzgers St. Karli-Kirche in Luzern“, in: Jahrbuch 14 (1996) der Historischen Gesellschaft Luzern, S. 2-51
