菲利普•薩科瑟(Philippe Saxer)先生是一位被越來越多的瑞士和國外圈內人士所熟知的藝術家。本文附後的個人履歷和展覽介紹展現了他的成長歷程和作品的品質，正如某日本畫廊的宣傳冊中所述：“他參加了一系列的個展或者群展，包括在瑞士聖高爾市拉格豪斯博物館(Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gall)所展出的回顧展。菲利普•薩科瑟從孩提開始作畫，毫無疑問他把此作為職業，他喜歡卡通，但那時的瑞士還不能學到這種非主流的繪畫技術。他後來學習藝術玻璃的設計和製造，1983年他18歲時創作的三件玻璃作品被瑞士玻璃藝術博物館購買和收藏。1987年，他突患重病，幾經週折最後在瓦爾多市（Waldau）精神療養院收治。他開始了全身心的繪畫創作，他的病房裏充滿了各樣的作品，後來被推薦進入奧托•佛立克（Otto Frick）先生所領導的瓦爾多室內繪畫工作室。在那兒，菲利普于1995年創作了幾幅大幅作品。現在，他在伯爾尼郊外的一套公寓內生活並不停地作畫，這成為他活下去的理由……”

Philippe Saxer is known as an artist to a growing number of insiders in Switzerland and abroad. The enclosed CV and exhibition overview show his track record and the quality of his work. This is also reflected in a statement in the booklet of a Japanese gallery:

“He had dozens of exhibitions; solo and group, including a retrospective with catalogue in the Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gall. Philippe Saxer started drawing already as a child. There was no question that he would not take art as a profession. He liked cartoons, but that was an artistic sideline he could not learn in Switzerland at that time. Thus he did, after rejecting the opening for an apprenticeship as a graphic designer, an apprenticeship as a glass artist: one who creates glass paintings by cutting the glass and putting the pieces in lead forms. He was so successful that already in 1983, when eighteen years old, the Swiss Glass Art Museum in Romont purchased three of his works. Then, in 1987, he was struck by illness. He entered several clinics and finally came to the Waldau . There he started drawing. When his room in the clinic was overflowing with works, he was referred to the Waldau internal painting workshop led by Otto Frick. Here Philippe did several large paintings in 1995. Philippe Saxer, who has lived for several years in his own apartment in a village outside of Bern, considers drawing and painting his reason to live.”