Hans Josephsohn

Hans Joseph son ( born May 20, 1920 what was then Königsberg, † August 20, 2012 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sculptor.

Life

Joseph son attended until 1937 the primary school and high school in Königsberg. He then studied with a scholarship for art in Florence. His Jewish ancestry because of Joseph 's son fled to Switzerland in 1938 and was in Zurich students of the Swiss sculptor Otto Müller. In 1943 he moved into his own studio and showed in 1964 his works in solo exhibitions. In the same year Joseph son became a Swiss citizen.

1992 the artist in Giornico in the canton of Ticino has dedicated a museum La Congiunta. Thirty of his sculptures have since been exhibited there. Joseph son's work was in the late 1990s to a wider audience, since about 2000, it is increasingly recognized internationally as a major contribution to the visual arts. Joseph son received in 1985 the honorary award of the Zurich Cantonal Government and the 2003 Art Prize of the City of Zurich. At the same time the boiler house of Joseph son opened in St. Gallen with an ever-changing permanent exhibition of his works.

Work

Over more than 60 years, the human figure Joseph son was artistic topic. His works are very general representations of human existence as physical beings. The immediate reference for direct comparison remains always get.

Joseph son sculptural design was always with plaster. In the soft state, he could model it trimmed again in the solid state. These processes can be seen on the surface of his sculptures. The structures are shaped by how he applied with a spatula or by hand mushy plaster, sometimes with the ax again broached raw or added with plaster chunks. In his studio created plaster models in the Kunstgiesserei Felix Lehner they are shaped and implemented in lost wax brass castings as.

The artist lived and worked in Zurich.

Solo exhibitions after 2000 (selection)

  • 2001: House of Arts of Brno (Brno, Czechoslovakia )
  • 2002: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 2004: Protestant town church Darmstadt
  • 2005: Diocesan Museum columbaria, Cologne
  • 2008: Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
  • 2009: Armory Show, New York
  • 2010: Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
  • 2011: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo / Kyoto
  • 2013: Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
  • 2013: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
  • 2014: Ernst Barlach House in Jenischpark, Hamburg

Works in Public Space (Selection)

  • Berlin: New National Gallery, half-length, 1990 ( installed 2010)
  • Zurich: Kunsthaus (passage to the library ), relief, 1950
  • Zurich - Wollishofen: Dorm, Large Reclining, 1964
  • Zurich ( IFW building of ETH Zurich): Relief, 1975
  • Zurich -Oerlikon: School house in Birch, Three large reclining; 1995; 1995; 1997 ( installed in 2004 )
  • Chur: Great Reclining, 2005 ( installed 2008)
  • Chur: Relief, 1970 ( installed 2008)
  • Langenthal: Sculpture at Schonthal, half-length, 1988/89 ( installed 2007)
  • Langenthal: Sculpture at Schonthal, Reclining, 2004

Gallery

Reclining, 2005 Chur

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