Hans josephsohn

The work of the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012), one of the

great masters of sculpture of the second half of the 20th century

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,