The Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn A broadcast discussion on the artist

Sculpture has a hard job. It doesn't make things easy for its viewers and is therefore often deliberately avoided. Yet anyone who stays still experiences essential things firsthand: the space, their body and themselves. How and why? More on this in context.

By: Ellinor Landmann, Gabriela Christen, Moderation: Bernard Senn, Editor: Raphael Zehnder

Hans Josephsohn was considered a monolith of the Swiss art scene. Someone was doing their own thing, even if hardly anyone was interested in it for a long time. It was only later that the sculptor, who was born in Königsberg in 1920 and died in Zurich in 2012, was recognized as an artist.

His life and work are topic for context and on Josephsohn's 100th birthday, his large-scale and raw sculptures can be seen in two new exhibitions.