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Article: Hans Josephsohn at Peter Blum.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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This exhibition marked the American debut of 85-year-old Hans Josephsohn. An excellent monograph on the artist by Gerhard Mack recounts that at age 17 this Jewish-German sculptor traveled to Florence to see the work of his hero, Michelangelo. Shortly after (this was in the late 1930s), as Switzerland closed its border with Germany, Josephson found himself stranded in Zurich. There he has remained. After training under the neo-classical sculptor Otto Muller, Josephsohn spent years barely subsisting, initially exhibiting locally, then nationally as he slowly gained recognition. When he was already in middle age, a younger artist, Gunther Forg, accidentally discovered ...