Manfred Bischoff

(1947-2015, Germany/Italy)

award ceremony: Het Kruithuis, Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst te ‘s-Hertogenbosch, on 5 September 1993.

jury:
Paul Derrez (chair)
Yvonne Joris
Otto Künzli

Manfred Bischoff (born 1947-died March 2015 in Italy), the Françoise van den Bosch Award recipient of 1992, studied in Pforzheim and Munich, lived and worked in Tuscany. His work is based on the inseparable relation between language, drawing, sign and jewellery.

Because of the Françoise van den Bosch Award, the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch organized his first museum solo exhibition “üb ersetzen”. On this occasion a catalogue was published with the same title. The Foundation purchased a brooch of his Mann mit zwei Fragen (Man with two Questions), which can be seen at the crafts and design department at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch holds the largest collection of Bischoff’s work in the Netherlands.