Retrospective at Museum Folkwang features 120 works by Hans Josephsohn

Museum Folkwang is presenting a retrospective on Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), featuring 120 of his works. Josephsohn is one of the major sculptors of European Modernism, and throughout his life grappled almost exclusively with the human figure and its sculptural composition. This will be the largest Josephsohn exhibition ever held in Germany. In his work, Josephsohn concentrated on a few fundamental forms of the human physique: the head, the half figure, the standing figure, and the reclining figure. “Sculpture cannot do much,” he once said. Nevertheless, he strove throughout his life to capture human existence through the means of sculpture. The search for the correct form defined his work. The sculptor worked largely from models, always seeking the perfect balance for each work between figuration and abstraction. Some of his early works are like slender stelae, while others deliver more accu