Jürgen Brodwolf

born in 1932 in Dübendorf, Jürgen Brodwolf is a contemporary Swiss artist. He works primarily in installation, object and sculpture. For many years, human figures were the prime subject of his art – appearing always deconstructed, decapitated, formless and often anonymous by multiplication. Brodwolf, a trained lithographer and draughtsman, studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bern. After graduating, he moved to Paris (1953-1954). Throughout the 1960s, he frequently visited Berlin and in 1968, he was granted a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts. Working with two-dimensional media, Brodwolf always juggles withboth sculptural and painting qualities, just to mention “Still life with knife” (1971) or reliefs he executed since 1990s. Brodwolf authored numerous evocative site-specific pieces, such as “Return from Marignano” and the anthropomorphic “Fountain of Miracle” (2000), realised in a cloister in Fescoggia. Some of his most significant exhibitions include the Documenta in Kassel (1977), the Aperto of the Venice Biennale (1982) and solo shows at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover (1985), Museum of New Art in Freiburg (2004) and Museum of Modern Art in Passau (2012). From 1982 to 1994, Brodwolf taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. Brodwolf, who set up a foundation in his name in 2005, currently lives and works in Kandern.