Born 1957. Presently lives in Zurich.

In the early 1970s he started delving into drawing, painting and object, and later on
experimented as well on films, musical works, poetic writing. 1977 meets the swiss
collector Alfons J. Keller, who dedicates the first exhibition to his work.

1978 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Assistant at the studio of Prof. Joseph Schulz. After
two years (1980) he breaks off his studies in Vienna and begins working independently.

Stays in Munich, Naples, Paris. From 1985-98 studio in Ascona.
Guest lecturer at the Vienna Academy of Arts (1995 & 2000).

http://www.jsomaeder.ch/