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Harry Schaffer (born 1963 in Chur/ Switzerland) is a Swiss artist and interior architect, who lives and works in Basel.
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Schaffer grew up in Allschwil and Olten/CH. He graduated 1983 and attended thereafter Basel art-school and absolved an apprenticeship as an interior-draftsman. After several study-trips to the USA he studied at the academy of arts of Basel, where he graduated with a Master of Design I Art & Innovation. Schaffer today owns a studio for Interior architecture and a planning-company for sustainable projects in Basel CH.
Schaffer's art-works are positioned within the themes of Minimal Art and Land art. For many years he has also been collaborating with the German-French artist Wolf Warnke. His main topics are the circle and the square, to which he modulates and experiments in different sizes and materials in various places around the world.
His scale of works range from short interventions with natural materials to sculptures out of steel or granite. He examines strongly the environment and the proportion of the golden section, which appear regularly in his works.
Schaffer is a father of three daughters.
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Harry Schaffer (born 1963 in Chur/ Switzerland) is a Swiss artist and interior architect, who lives and works in Basel.
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Schaffer grew up in Allschwil and Olten/CH. He graduated 1983 and attended thereafter Basel art-school and absolved an apprenticeship as an interior-draftsman. After several study-trips to the USA he studied at the academy of arts of Basel, where he graduated with a Master of Design I Art & Innovation. Schaffer today owns a studio for Interior architecture and a planning-company for sustainable projects in Basel CH.
Schaffer's art-works are positioned within the themes of Minimal Art and Land art. For many years he has also been collaborating with the German-French artist Wolf Warnke. His main topics are the circle and the square, to which he modulates and experiments in different sizes and materials in various places around the world.
His scale of works range from short interventions with natural materials to sculptures out of steel or granite. He examines strongly the environment and the proportion of the golden section, which appear regularly in his works.
Schaffer is a father of three daughters.