Wie Ein Neanderthaler Falsch Belichtet / Like a Neanderthal in a Bad Light

by Mark Staff Brandl, Daniel Ammann

35 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Mark Staff Brandl is an artist, art historian and philosopher of art most well-known for his self-labeled "mongrel art": hybrids of installation and sequential paintings and drawings, which occasionally incorporate lectures as performances. Under the alias "Dr. Great Art" since 2016, he offers the public his inimitable performance-lectures concerning art history. He was born in 1955 in Peoria,Illinois, Brandl lived for many years in Chicago, where his career began. He has lived primarily in Switzerland since 1988, where he became a citizen in 1995. He studied art, art history, aesthetics and literary theory at the University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Columbia Pac. University, and received his Ph.D. in Art History magna cum laude from the University of Zurich in 2011. He is Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus at the Art Academy of Liechtenstein and Higher Professional College for Art in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Brandl is active internationally as an artist since 1980, has won various awards, had many publications and had numerous exhibitions. His shows include galleries and museums in the US, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, the Caribbean; specific cities include Paris, Moscow, Chicago, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Prague and New York. As a critic, he has been a contributor to London’s The Art Book, a podcaster for Bad at Sports, Theory Editor for Chicago's Proximity magazine and a Contributing Editor for New York’s Art in America. He was also the curator of the Kunstgrill Zurich and the Collapsible Kunsthalle.
Works of his have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the St. Gallen Art Museum, The Thurgau Museum of Fine Art, The E.T.H. Graphic Collection in Zurich, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the International Museum of Cartoon Art, the Art Museum Olten and others.
His philosophy book for Bloomsbury Press for the "Aesthetics and Contemporary Art" Series (David Carrier and Tiziana Andina, editors), titled 'A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art' has just been published. A book titled 'Covering Brandl,' on 22 years of essays about his art by the author and theorist Daniel F. Ammann was published recently by Magoria Press.