1. Bruno Bischofberger studied art history, archaeology and ethnography at the University of Zurich, with further studies at the universities of Bonn and Munich.
12 Facts About Bruno Bischofberger
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Bruno Bischofberger opened his first gallery in 1963 on Pelikanstrasse in Zurich, then under the name City-Galerie.
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Bruno Bischofberger has typically maintained close personal relationships with his artists, many of which endure to this day.
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In 2013, the gallery relocated from Zurich to the grounds of a former factory in the nearby community of Mannedorf, where since 2005 Bruno Bischofberger has been erecting numerous buildings designed by his daughter Nina Bruno Bischofberger and her husband Florian Baier.
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Since the 1980s, Bruno Bischofberger has promoted his exhibitions on the back cover of periodicals such as Artforum and Kunstbulletin.
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Bruno Bischofberger is especially well known for his close association with Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Bruno Bischofberger encountered Warhol for the first time in New York in 1966.
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Bruno Bischofberger was able to select eleven very significant works, including some hand-painted early pieces such as Superman, Batman, a coloured Coca-Cola painting and several large, often double-panelled Disaster paintings and early portraits dating from 1961 to 1963.
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Bruno Bischofberger travelled several times a year to New York City.
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Bruno Bischofberger came across Basquiat's work for the first time in 1981 and one year later became his main art dealer worldwide until the artist's death in 1988.
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Bruno Bischofberger had the idea for the artistic collaborations after Basquiat made several drawings together with Bruno Bischofberger's then three-year-old daughter Cora on a visit to Switzerland.
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In Julian Schnabel's 1996 film Basquiat, Bruno Bischofberger was played by Dennis Hopper.