Draft:Filip Leu

  • Comment: https://issuu.com/gregorcoush/docs/3erhxe is dead. In itself, this doesn't matter: one can instead point to the Wayback scrape at https://web.archive.org/web/20230820144253/https://issuu.com/gregorcoush/docs/3erhxe . The problem is that this is an interview with Loretta Leu.
    We read that the man developed his own style; "a sensitive meeting between traditional Japanese art and a contemporary approach to traditional tattooing and iconography from the philosophy of biomechanics." The source is ArtJaws. I'd never heard of this so I took a look at the "about" page. A sample: This approach centered on the artworks curation gives to ArtJaws a clear identity, a strength and a disruptive proposal sources, that worths and interrogates the actual contemporary art market expertise’s. It's drivel, but what's clear from the page is that this is a marketing website. Its page about Leu will have been written by Leu, or by an employee of his.
    I didn't bother to look at any more sources.
    If there is to be an article on Leu then it must be based on reliable sources that are independent of him. Hoary (talk) 01:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: Note to both submitter and future reviewers: I mistakenly selected blp defamatory as decline reason here. The reason I meant to select was missing in-line citations. As a BLP, everything should have an in-line citation attached. Avgeekamfot (talk) 18:33, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
 Done Named texts and criticized source removed. Doc.Heintz (talk) 05:12, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
 Done Doc.Heintz (talk) 05:19, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Filip Leu
Filip Leu in 2024
Born1967 (age 58–59)
Paris, France
OccupationsTattooist; Art-Painter

Filip Leu (born 1967 in Paris) is a well-known tattoo artist. Tattoo Spirit included him in its hall of fame series alongside Herbert Hoffmann and Horst Streckenbach in 2018.[1] In her Radio SRF 3 documentary series Inked, Bettina Bestgen said: "Filip Leu and his family are considered legends in the scene. Filip learned to tattoo as a child and today has a customer waiting list of several years. He is the idol of many tattoo artists."[2]

Biographical and career information

Filip first grew up in Paris. He is a grandson of the Swiss artist Eva Aeppli and her first husband, the architect Hans "Johnny" Felix Leu (December 1, 1925 - March 14, 2001). His parents Felix Leu (alias Don Feliz, 1945-2002) and Loretta (born 1945) were travelling artists. They met in New York City in 1965.[3] Until 1978, they travelled and lived in America, Europe, North Africa, India and Nepal and had four children (Ama, Aia, Filip and Ajja) who were all born on the road. They also learned the art of tattooing and eventually tattooed for a living. With his father Felix Leu and his mother Loretta, Filip began to practicing the art of tattooing at a young age. The Leu family had settled in Goa and Filip would draw tattoo designs for his parents' customers.[4] The Leu clan is best known in tattoo circles, where they have achieved worldwide fame.[5] Felix Leu, the son of Eva Aeppli, and his wife Loretta[6], travelled the world in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, making a living from their tattoo art.[7]

From the age of majority, Filip travelled to Japan and the USA to meet some of the more famous tattoo artists of the time. He completed his training with Horiyoshi III in Tokyo, among others, worked for Ed Hardy in his Realistic Tattoo Studio in San Francisco and learned how to make tattoo machines from Paul Rogers. In 1981, the Leu family decided to settle in Switzerland, where they founded the Leu Family Iron Tattoo Studio. In 1986 Filip joined the family business in Lausanne.

The studio, called The Leu Family's Family Iron, is located in Bullet, a town of around 650 inhabitants in the Vaudois Jura. The studio itself, an old house on a hill with green shutters and a hidden entrance, was converted by the Leu family from a ski store.[8]

Selected exhibitions

  • Filip Leu presented a work in the exhibition "Tatoueurs, tatoués" at the Musée du quai Branly from May 2014 to October 2015.[9]
  • For issue 23 of the magazine HEY! modern art & pop culture, Leu realized an exclusive series of 16 paintings, 8 of which were presented in the exhibition HEY! modern art & pop culture - Act III at the Museum of the Halle Saint Pierre from October 2015 to March 2016.[10]
  • From March 3, 2021 to October 31, 2021, the Museum Tinguely hosted the exhibition Art Leu Family. Caresser la peau du ciel was on display.[11]
  • From February 8 to June 2, the tattoo exhibition 2024 at the Caixa Forum Palma will feature works by Filip Leu.[12]
  • From August 14 to September 14, the exhibition 2025 »Signs of the Times - Inner Self« at the KIZ Gießen will feature works by Filip Leu.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Tätowierer, die Geschichte schrieben: Tattoo Legende Filip Leu" [Tattoo artists who made history: tattoo legend Filip Leu]. Tattoo Spirit (in German). 28 November 2018. Archived from the original on 20 January 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  2. ^ Bestgen, Bettina (5 January 2017). "Inked - Filip Leu: Exklusives Portrait des weltbekannten Tätowierers" [Filip Leu: Exclusive portrait of the world-famous tattoo artist]. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (in German). Archived from the original on 20 January 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  3. ^ Bagot, Pascal (January 2020). "Ask Here, part one". Skin Deep. No. 310. pp. 30–36. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  4. ^ Bettina Bestgen: Filip Leu: Exklusives Portrait des weltbekannten Tätowierers. Radio SRF 3.
  5. ^ "Die wundersame Kunstwelt der Familie Leu" [The wondrous art world of the Leu family]. Bote der Urschweiz (in German). 2 March 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  6. ^ Loretta Leu MY STORY September 27, 2019
  7. ^ Rosie Byers: Tattoos & Travelling: Loretta Leu trippin.world
  8. ^ Bestgen, Bettina (23 November 2016). "Inked - Kennst du diese Familie nicht, hast du keine Ahnung von Tattoos" [If you don't know this family, you have no idea about tattoos]. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (in German). Archived from the original on 20 January 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
  9. ^ Stéphany Gardier: Tous tatoués. In: Le Temps. 11 June 2014 (French); Citation:: Jérôme Pierrat: «Tatouages» hors série Découvertes, Éd. Gallimard.
  10. ^ Tattoo Art Collection: Leu Filip. ArtJaws.
  11. ^ Christian Jelk, curator of the exhibition at Museum Tinguely: Ausstellung Museum Tinguely Art: Leu Family. Caresser la peau du ciel. (in German) museenbasel.ch.
  12. ^ Tattoo-Ausstellung im Caixa Forum in Palma. Mallorca Magazin. 2024, Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  13. ^ Geschichten aus der Tätowiernadel Gießener Allgemeine 2025, Retrieved 12 August 2025.

General references

  • Guido Costa (author), Henk Schiffmacher (author), Miki Vialetto (author), Fabio Paleari (photographer): The Filip Leu Family's Family Iron Tattoo Trolley books January 1, 2004.
  • The Great Books On The Art Of Tattooing - Filip Leu, Mosher Tattoo Books 2014.
  • Clinton Sanders, D Angus Vail: Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing. Temple University Press 2008, ISBN 1-592-13889-6, pp. 111-117.
  • Margo DeMello: Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World. ABC-CIO 2014, ISBN 1-610-69076-1, P. 264.
  • Susanna Kumschick: Showing tattoos. Forms of representation of tattoos in curatorial theory and practice. transcript Verlag 2021, ISBN 3-8394-6075-7, p. 89.
  • François Chauvin: Mondial du Tatouage Hachette Pratique 2018, ISBN 978-2-0162-5602-2, p. 81.
  • Andres Pardey, Reinhard Bek, Jean Tinguely: Museum Tinguely Basel, the collection 2012, ISBN 978-3-8682-8339-6.
  • Manfred Kohrs: TATTOO-HISTORY No.1 -Tattoo-Artists go Public-. IKARUS GmbH, Wedemark 2025. ISBN 978-3-911819-00-8 p. 86.

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