How can I buy a work by Frank Schwaiger?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Frank Schwaiger. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Frank Schwaiger in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of Laumeier Sculpture Park.

What does Frank Schwaiger make?

Geometric acrylic paintings on board and canvas board built from circles, grids and strong color; carved limestone, marble and bronze sculpture; and large outdoor steel works such as Leaf Pavilion (2009) and Poet (2015).

Where is Frank Schwaiger based?

Frank Schwaiger lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Frank Schwaiger had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Alchemy – A Brush With The Universal (4 September to 31 October 2026); Music: The Art of Seeing (21 January to 29 March 2025) are among his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Frank Schwaiger

Frank Schwaiger (born 1940) is a St. Louis-based painter and sculptor who makes geometric acrylic paintings, carved stone and bronze sculpture, and large outdoor works in steel. His paintings on board and canvas board are built from circles, grid systems and strong color, and he has described them as meditative images, “portals into the mind.” The steel works reach architectural scale: Leaf Pavilion (2009) measures 36 by 32 by 32 feet.

Schwaiger traces his visual vocabulary to 17th-century Bavarian folk art and to the work of Paul Klee. He paints with acrylics, varnishes and found materials, and his sculpture moves between limestone, marble, granite, wood, bronze and steel. The stone pieces can take years; he has said that Blades, shown in 2020, took 10 years to envision and execute. His recent paintings take up the geometries that order the world, work he approaches as a spiritual practice.

Schwaiger graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1962 with an AB, studying in the School of Architecture, now part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Schwaiger earned an M.F.A. at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he spent two years working with R. Buckminster Fuller, and he taught at Washington University for 11 years. His studio portfolio also includes architecture and interior design. He directs the Columbia Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, which he founded in 2003 and which holds an archive of his work and that of the late Washington University architecture professor Leslie Laskey.

Leaf Pavilion stands at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, and his steel sculpture Poet (2015) was installed outdoors in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in 2024. Schwaiger’s history with Bruno David Gallery goes back to his 2007 exhibition Mythologies. His solo exhibitions with the gallery since then include Ritual Acts (2014); Recent Work (2016–17) and Meditations (2018), both at Bruno David Projects; SYZYGY (2020); Signals (2022–23); X Series (2024); Music: The Art of Seeing (2025); and Alchemy – A Brush With The Universal (2026). Bruno David Gallery Publications has issued a catalogue for each show from Mythologies through Music: The Art of Seeing.

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→ Read the X Series catalogue

→ Read the Signals catalogue

→ Read the SYZYGY catalogue

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