“What I can offer is to provide a brief glimpse of this immense world for others: like a vast landscape at night, lit for a fraction of a second by lightning. Art can succeed–even if only for brief moments– in making people intensely themselves.”
– Susanne Wenger
“Sometimes we need a stranger to guide us through the chaos that reigns in our own house, Susanne Wenger is this stranger, this outsider—but in the process of guiding us, she also found herself and has not only ceased to become a stranger and an outsider but in turn has become a Yoruba soul and the Yoruba’s conscience”
– The late Chief Adebayo Adeleke, 1983,
Patron and lifetime friend of Susanne’s
Susanne Wenger (1915 – 2009) ta riga ta kasance fitacciyar mai fasaha ɗan ƙasar Austria lokacin da ta ƙaura zuwa Najeriya a cikin 1950, amma tatsuniyar Yarbawa ce ta ƙarfafa ta ta bayyana ainihin ruhinta da kuma ruhaniya.
zurfin fasaha.
Ta halarci Makarantar Fasaha a Graz, Ostiriya da Babban Ilimin Ilimin Tarayya da Cibiyar Bincike sannan ta yi karatu a Kwalejin Fine Arts Vienna tare da wasu, Herbert Boeckl.
Daga 1946, Wenger ma'aikaci ne na mujallar yara 'yan gurguzu " Jaridarmu ", wanda murfin farkon bugu ta tsara. A cikin 1947 ta haɗu da kafa Vienna Art-
Kulob . Bayan ta zauna a Italiya da Switzerland a 1949 ta tafi Paris, inda ta sadu da mijinta na gaba, masanin harshe Ulli Beier. A wannan shekarar, bayan da aka ba Beier damar zama mai buga sauti a Ibadan, Najeriya, ma’auratan sun yi aure a Landan kuma suka yi hijira zuwa Najeriya. Duk da haka, ma'auratan sun ƙaura daga Ibadan zuwa ƙauyen Ede a shekara ta gaba.
Susanne ta yi matukar farin ciki da tsarkin gonar Osun Osogbo kuma ta zama babbar mai ba da shawara don kare shi. Sama da shekaru 40, ta, tare da gungun masu fasaha na gida sun gina zane-zane na ban mamaki kuma sun ɗora dajin Grove tare da manyan ayyukan fasaha. Ga Susanne, "Art wani furci ne na tsattsarka" maimakon aikin kasuwanci. Wannan
Iyalin masu fasaha na ban mamaki sun zama sanannun da Sabon Alfarma Art Movement, ƙirƙirar ɗayan mafi mahimmancin shimfidar wurare na sassaka a duniya.
Tallafin kuɗi don ginin sassaka-faɗin ya zo galibi daga siyar da kayan aikinta. Daga tsakiyar shekarun 1980 zuwa 2004, Susanne tana da manyan nune-nune na duniya da yawa. Yawancin
zane-zanenta, zane-zane, kwafin siliki da batik ɗin da ta ƙirƙira sama da shekaru 59 a Najeriya da farkon farkonta a Ostiriya ana kiyaye su a cikin wani gini da aka gina a Krems, Austria.
Amma ta bar aikinta mafi muhimmanci ga Najeriya a cikin Groves na Osogbo. A shekara ta 2005 ne aka nada kambun Osun Osogbo a matsayin wurin tarihi na UNESCO domin girmama fasahar da ta kunsa da kuma gadon al’adun da ya kunsa. Amintacciyar Adunni Olorisha ta sadaukar da kai don adana wannan gagarumin tarihi na fasaha