Konrad Balder Schäuffelen (1929 - 2012)

Konrad Balder Schäuffelen

Konrad Balder Schäuffelen is a German psychiatrist, artist, author of concrete and visual poetry, and translator.

Schäuffelen earned a PhD in medicine and worked as a psychiatrist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After training as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, he worked in his own practice and as a writer and translator in Munich.

In the 1950s Schäuffelen turned to experimental and visual poetry; from the early 1960s he mainly produced language and book objects as well as audiovisual installations. In 1979 he was awarded the Schwabing Art Prize in the plastic/sculpture category.