LoMA – the Company
LoMA is Locher Modern Art GmbH – an eclectic team of art historians, professional restorers and advisers founded by Andreas Locher. We are a small company founded in 2008 in Switzerland and based in Zurich. We buy, we sell to provide high quality and exciting works of art.We are a passionate team supported by our academic backgrounds, however, our working strategy is based on lucid communication and efficient business practice.
LoMA – our 4 Principles
1. Quality
2. Authenticity
3. Reliability
4. Passion
1. Quality
We sell works of art that fulfil the highest standards of quality.
LoMA sells aesthetic works as well as those of cultural and historical value – our artists are part of art history.
Conservation is an important aspect in a work’s quality and, where aesthetically and economically appropriate, some of our works are restored by the best professionals in the field.
We sell art that gives pleasure in daily life both emotionally and economically.
2. Authenticity
Our works of art are scientifically researched, authentically restored and authentificated by specialists. Whenever appilcable we provide certificates for the works offered.
3. Reliability
To be reliable in an ever-shifting society is the goal we constantly want to achieve. To this end we build genuine and transparent long-term relationships with the people we work with and who genuinely care for our clients and the works we sell.
4. Passion
We work with art because our passion is our profession.
We strongly identify ourselves with art, its meaning and value.
LoMA – our Three areas of specialisation
❑ Classic modernism
❑ Le Corbusier
❑ Photography
Recent exhibitions
2008 Le Corbusier lithographs edition Heidi Weber, Centro Português de Serigrafia, Lisboa, Portugal
2008 Le Corbusier lithographs in Berlin exhibited at: 50 Jahre Le Corbusier‘s Wohneinheit ”Typ Berlin”
2009 Le Corbusier lithographs, LoMA gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Through the eyes of an architect: important works of art by Swiss artists from Hodler to Josephson, LoMA gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Swiss Photography of the 20th century part I, LoMA gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Begegnungen, Hans Brühlmann, Gertrud Schwyzer, Julius Süss, Günther Uecker, curated by Monika Jagfeld, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland (Patrick Süss courtesy LoMA GmbH)
2012 Swiss Photography of the the 20th century part II, LoMA gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Articles
Andreas Locher: HW and L-C’s Tapestries “Muralnomade”, page 144 in Heidi Weber – 50 years Ambassador for Le Corbusier, 2nd edition, 2009, ISBN 978-3-033-02087-0
Andreas Locher: Eine brisante Geschichte. Die Stadt Zürich und das letzte Bauwerk von Le Corbusier 1960-2010, 2011
Andreas Locher: Visionen und Taten – Aus dem Leben von Heidi Weber, 2011