Peter Jodocy
1884–1971
Belgian-born Peter Jodocy traveled the world before choosing the remote Upper Peninsula of Michigan for his home. Jodocy and his wife homesteaded a three hundred-acre farm in an area that today remains largely wilderness; it was this property that he decorated with his offbeat sculptures. Though the details of Jodocy’s life are scant, it is known that he expressed his humorous reflections on American culture in his yard environment.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center houses two of the three known surviving examples of his work, the life-size deer with found antlers and a hunter with a real rifle.
