About the Artist
Samuel Buri
Samuel Buri is a Swiss artist whose art practice fuses his interest in the natural world with a Neo-Expressionist style. Akin to artists from the Junge Wilde movement, like Salome, Elvira Bach, and Martin Kippenberger. His work presents an eclectic oeuvre of life-size sculptures, garden scenes, abstractions, and window views. Born on September 27, 1935 in Tauffelen, Switzerland, Buri moved to Basel with his family in 1948. An encounter in the early 1950s with the American artist Sam Francis, spurred his interest in becoming a painter. The artist has enjoyed significant recognition for his works, and has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1969 and the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. He lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
