Shizuko Yoshikawa

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshikawa first studied English in Tokyo and then, in 1958, moved on to pursue a master's degree in architecture and product design at what is now the University of Tsukuba. In 1961, she relocated to Germany and began her studies at the renowned Ulm School of Design, as the only woman and one of the few students from Japan. Two years later, she moved to Zurich and worked in the studio of the Swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann, whom she married in 1967. From 1970 onwards, she began her freelance artistic career, turning to Concrete Art, whose geometric rigor she enriched with Far Eastern poetry and aesthetics.