菲利普?薩科瑟(Philippe Saxer)先生是一位被越來越多的瑞士和國外圈內(nèi)人士所熟知的藝術(shù)家。本文附后的個人履歷和展覽介紹展現(xiàn)了他的成長歷程和作品的質(zhì)量，正如某日本畫廊的宣傳冊中所述：“他參加了一系列的個展或者群展，包括在瑞士圣高爾市拉格豪斯博物館(Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gall)所展出的回顧展。菲利普?薩科瑟從孩提開始作畫，毫無疑問他把此作為職業(yè)，他喜歡卡通，但那時的瑞士還不能學(xué)到這種非主流的繪畫技術(shù)。他后來學(xué)習(xí)藝術(shù)玻璃的設(shè)計和制造，1983年他18歲時創(chuàng)作的三件玻璃作品被瑞士玻璃藝術(shù)博物館購買和收藏。1987年，他突患重病，幾經(jīng)周折最后在瓦爾多市（Waldau）精神療養(yǎng)院收治。他開始了全身心的繪畫創(chuàng)作，他的病房里充滿了各樣的作品，后來被推薦進(jìn)入奧托?佛立克（Otto Frick）先生所領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的瓦爾多室內(nèi)繪畫工作室。在那兒，菲利普于1995年創(chuàng)作了幾幅大幅作品。現(xiàn)在，他在伯爾尼郊外的一套公寓內(nèi)生活并不停地作畫，這成為他活下去的理由……”

Philippe Saxer is known as an artist to a growing number of insiders in Switzerland and abroad. The enclosed CV and exhibition overview show his track record and the quality of his work. This is also reflected in a statement in the booklet of a Japanese gallery:

“He had dozens of exhibitions; solo and group, including a retrospective with catalogue in the Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gall. Philippe Saxer started drawing already as a child. There was no question that he would not take art as a profession. He liked cartoons, but that was an artistic sideline he could not learn in Switzerland at that time. Thus he did, after rejecting the opening for an apprenticeship as a graphic designer, an apprenticeship as a glass artist: one who creates glass paintings by cutting the glass and putting the pieces in lead forms. He was so successful that already in 1983, when eighteen years old, the Swiss Glass Art Museum in Romont purchased three of his works. Then, in 1987, he was struck by illness. He entered several clinics and finally came to the Waldau . There he started drawing. When his room in the clinic was overflowing with works, he was referred to the Waldau internal painting workshop led by Otto Frick. Here Philippe did several large paintings in 1995. Philippe Saxer, who has lived for several years in his own apartment in a village outside of Bern, considers drawing and painting his reason to live.”