Hans Josephsohn
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Born in 1920 in Eastern Prussia from Jewish parents, Hans Josephsohn left Germany
in 1937 and settled in Florence with the aim of studying art. Forced to leave due
to fascist racial laws, he moved to Switzerland, which became his adoptive country.
Josephsohn’s oeuvre has been defined as “existential sculpture”: in a time that was
strongly characterised by the physical and moral devastation left by World War II,
Hans Josephsohn developed a language capable to talk about the fragile relationship
of mankind with the surrounding world. He was concerned with representing the
human being as a figure in space throughout his life. His sculptures are characterised
by an ambivalence of the almost abstract figure whose individuality is secured by its
form, material and surface.
The book is published on the occasion of the biggest Josephsohn exhibition at the
Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, curated by the german painter Albert Oehlen. It aims
to show why Josephsohn, though being little known during his lifetime, is recognized
as “the most important sculptor since Giacometti” (Jackie Wullschlager).
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