Josef Staub (1931-2006) was a Swiss sculptor, plastic artist and painter. His work includes square and environmental design, art in architecture, chrome and iron sculptures, sculptures, object art, paintings, drawings and collages.

Josef Staub grew up in Baar (Switzerland). Trained as a bricklayer and construction manager. He was primarily self-taught in his artistic training. He has been working as a painter since 1950. He had his first exhibition in Zug in 1956. He received a federal art scholarship in 1957 and 1959, and a scholarship from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation in 1958. He married in 1957 and moved to Dietikon. He had his first exhibition in Zurich at the Galerie Palette in 1959. He won an award at the exhibition of young European paintings in Savona (l) in 1961. He turned to sculpture in the mid-1960s. After experimenting with aluminum and concrete, Staub focused primarily on steel. He took part in sculpture exhibitions at home and abroad. He completed various commissions and competitions for art in buildings in the cantons of Zurich, Zug, Aargau, Solothurn and St. Gallen. He spent long periods studying in Spain, France, Italy and the USA in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1975 he received a scholarship from the Canton of Zurich.

Josef Staub Sculpture / Lange + Pult at Art Cologne 2024. November 8, 2024.

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