Markus Jenzer

Originally a businessman with artistic inclinations, he did not begin formal training in painting until 1964.

Inspired by Impressionism, he devoted himself primarily to landscape painting. In the early 1970s, he worked as a painter, and his solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s and 1980s attracted considerable interest.

Later, there was a shift in his work. Through various experiments, he explored the microscopic world of brushstrokes and color structures using macrophotography, bringing these discoveries back to the large canvas. Works from this period were included in an exhibition in Basel in 1978. At the same time, he continued to create landscapes, which were presented in separate exhibitions.

Over the two decades, his non-representational painting evolved towards symmetry. Between 1992 and 2011, Markus Jenzer and his wife lived in the Lake Geneva region, where much of his symmetrical work was created, to which he now dedicated himself exclusively.

The meditative character of these images and their meticulous development required a high level of concentration and introspection. To date, only a small portion of his significant later works has been made available to the public.