
Photo: Gottfried Junker
1932 | born in Dübendorf near Zurich |
1948-52 | Apprenticeship as draftsman/lithographer |
1950-52 | School of Applied Arts Bern |
1955-60 | Worked as a fresco restorer |
1959 | Discovery of the tube figure |
1968 | Scholarship of the Academy of Arts, Berlin |
1975 | Art prize of the Böttcherstrasse, Bremen |
1976-82 | Professorship for drawing at the University of Applied Sciences for Design, Pforzheim |
1977 | Participation in documenta VI, Kassel |
1981 | Hans Thoma Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg |
1982-94 | Professorship for sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart |
1982 | Participation in the Venice Biennale: Aperto 82 |
1986 | Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt |
1989 | Art Prize of the City of Stuttgart |
1991 | Theater installation for "Die Siamesischen Zwillinge" by Christoph Klimke, world premiere, Schauspielhaus Dortmund |
1993 | Art Prize of the Artists, Düsseldorf |
1995 | Relocation from Vogelbach to Kandern into the former municipal hospital, which becomes the new place for art, work and living |
2005 | Establishment of the Jürgen Brodwolf Foundation Kandern |
2008 | Artist in residence, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop |
2011 | Erichckel Prize, Circle of Friends of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association |
Lives and works in Kandern (Black Forest) | |
Solo exhibitions (selection) | |
2008 | Arte Moderna Ammann, Locarno, Switzerland |
Kunsthalle Will, Switzerland | |
2007 | Gallery Levy, Hamburg, Germany |
2006 | Kunstmuseum in der alten Post, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany |
Gallery Henze+Ketterer+Triebold, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland | |
Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart, Germany | |
2005 | Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar, Germany |
Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany | |
2004 | Museum for Sepulcral Culture, Kassel, Germany |
Museum for New Art, Freiburg, Germany | |
2003 | Art Museum Bayreuth, Germany |
Micus Museum, Ibiza, Spain | |
2002 | Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle an der Saale, Germany |
Kunstverein Kirchzarten, Germany | |
2001 | University Museum of Fine Arts, Marburg, Germany |
Municipal Collections, Schweinfurt, Germany | |
Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, Germany | |
1999 | Art Collection Neubrandenburg, Germany |
PCC Art Space Weimar, Germany | |
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany | |
1998 | Kunstverein Würzburg, Germany |
1997 | Kunstverein Jena, Germany |
Museum Osnabrück, Germany | |
1996 | Kunstverein Pforzheim, Germany |
1995 | Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany |
Lindenau Museum, Altenberg, Germany | |
1993 | Forum Rottweil, Germany |
Gerhard Marcks House, Bremen, Germany | |
1992 | Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany |
Gallery of the City of Stuttgart, Germany | |
Group exhibitions (selection) | |
2007 | Egypt - Modernity, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany |
2006 | Galerija sodobne umetnosti Celje, Slovenia |
2005 | European art in the southwest curve, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany |
Dreissigpluseiner, Great Art Exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia, special show of the art prize winners of the last 30 years, Germany | |
2004 | Hommage à Leos Janacek, Art House of the City of Brno, Czech Republic |
2003 | Open 2003, Arte & Cinema. 6th Esposizione Internazionale di Sculture ed Installazioni, Venice, Lido, Italy |
At the Crossroads: Christian Motifs in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle, Saale, Germany | |
2002 | Remembering, Kunstverein Nördlingen, Germany |
2001 | From Rodin to Baselitz, The Torso in Modern Sculpture, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany |
1998 | The First International Ink Painting Biennal of Shenzhen, Guan Shynyne Art Museum, Shenzhen, China |
1997 | Magic of Number, State Gallery Stuttgart, Germany |
1995 | Triple X Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
1992 | Works on paper 1945-1975, donation to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA |
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
Homage to Angelika Kauffmann, Liechtenstein State Art Collection, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
1990 | Present-Eternity, Gropius -Bau, Berlin, Germany |
Public Collections (Selection) | |
Lindenau Museum, Altenburg | |
Museum Aschaffenburg | |
Basel Museum of Art (Kupferstichkabinett) | |
Museum of Prints and Drawings of the Berlin State Collections | |
Hans-Thoma-Museum, Bernau | |
Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn | |
Bremen Art Gallery | |
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA | |
Bündner Museum of Art, Chur | |
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg | |
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main | |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Freiburg | |
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen | |
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Sprengel Museum, Hanover | |
Municipal Museums, Heilbronn | |
Municipal Art Collections, Karlsruhe | |
Kiel Art Gallery | |
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen | |
Art Gallery, Mannheim | |
Museum of Art, Schaffhausen | |
Art Museum, Singen | |
Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg | |
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (graphic collection) | |
Gallery of the City of Stuttgart | |
Ministry of Science and Art, Stuttgart | |
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
Art Museum Winterthur | |
Märkisches Museum, Witten | |
Kunsthaus Zurich |