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Brody Neuenschwander (born 1958) is a calligrapher and artist who lives in Bruges, Belgium.
Education
Neuenschwander was educated at Princeton University where he received his B.A. in Art History in 1981.[4] While a student at Princeton, he was appointed a University Scholar.[5] He went on to complete a doctorate in 1986 at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His PhD thesis was on the methodology of German art historical practices.[4] He graduated with distinction from the Roehampton Institute of Calligraphy in 1985.
Biography
Neuenschwander was born in Houston, Texas, and currently lives and works in Bruges, Belgium.[4] Following graduate school, he entered his professional career working as an assistant to the English calligrapher Donald Jackson.
Neuenschwander taught at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2004.[4] During this time he developed research into the origins of text-based visual art.[4] He has translated many writings of Hans-Joachim Burgert, a German theoretician and calligrapher.[1] His work has been included in the International Exhibition of Calligraphy.[10][4] Burgert's theories about world calligraphy influenced Neuenschwander's interest in Arabic and Chinese calligraphy. His work is the subject of a monograph, Textasy: The Work of Brody Neuenschwander.[11] Neuenschwander has also created calligraphic installations.[12]
Exhibitions
Neuenschwander has shown his work at the Museum Correr Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia,[13] the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow,[14] among other venues.
Collections
Neuenschwander's work is in the permanent collection of the Berlin Calligraphy Collection of the Akademie der Kunste.[15]
