Leo Leuppi
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Leo Leuppi came from a peasant family with many children. From 1910 to 1914 he attended the class for graphic arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich.[2]
At the end of the First World War he made contact with the Dada movement and became friends with Jean Arp. In 1934 he founded the Groupe Suisse Abstraction et Surréalisme to help the modern art movements break through to cultural institutions. In 1936 Leuppi was presented progressive Swiss artists to the wider public for the first time with the exhibition Zeitprobleme in der Schweizer Malerei und Plastik.
In 1937, together with Richard Paul Lohse, he launched Die Allianz, an association of modern Swiss artists.[3] After many exhibitions, in 1954 Leuppi resigned as president of Allianz. He was a colleague of Anna Indermaur, who was a member of both Die Allianz and Groupe Suisse Abstraction et Surréalisme.
From 1959 to 1960 Leuppi taught experimental design in the Fashion Department at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich.
In 1963 he gave up his studio on Mühlebachstrasse in Zurich and moved to Krankenheim Bombach, Höngg.
