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Ricardo Villacis was born in Ecuador and has now been living and working in Germany for 22 years. He completed his training to become a sculptor in his home country. His entire passion as an artist is about the natural resource wood. Each of his sculptures is unique and at the same time something very…

The sculptor Kerstin Vicent was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961 and grew up in Annaberg-Buchholz. Already as a child woods of all kinds were her favorite toys and she formed them in imaginative beings. From 1978 she took part in painting and graphic arts courses and participated in exhibitions. After passing the A-level and graduating…

The artist and wood sculptor Michael Steigerwald was born in Rottenberg near Aschaffenburg in 1955. He visited the vocational school for wood sculptors from 1978 and worked after his apprenticeship as a restorer at Hummel’s in Heiligenberg. After six years as a sculptor in the workshop of the successful sculptor and author of mystery plays…

The sculptor Eva Skupin was born in Laucha on the Unstrut in 1965. In 1982, the artist started an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in Empfertshausen. After finishing the apprenticeship she worked as a theater artist at the state theater in Meiningen from 1984 to 1986. Eva Skupin returned to school. She studied theater plastic…

True to his motto “Give wood a face“, Robby Schubert, who was born in Schlema in 1964, discovered already as a child his love to this material and its possibilities. With the “fall of the wall“ in 1990, this love has not just become a profession, but a part of his vocation, which is still…

Not only his “Erna“ will continue telling his stories Amazingly and proverbially he was somehow carved from that wood that he loved so much. A man, like a tree with deep roots, strong position and permanent impression. His wavy hair and his good-natured smiling, his sometimes a little embarrassed honest eye wink and the force…

Thomas Reuter was born in Winterhausen, a market town in Lower Franconia close to the city of Würzburg in 1956. Since time immemorial, the area has been dominated by stone, especially the coquina. His professional career began with an apprenticeship in a small stonemason company in Würzburg. It is here where stone is still worked…

The wood sculptor and freelance artist Tim Weigelt was born in Jena, Thuringia in 1976. This is where he also grew up and got a passion for two things: wood and sea. Both have remained with the artist to this day. In 1995, Tim Weigelt graduated from high school and started an apprenticeship as carpenter.…

Hans-Peter Mader was born in Rolandstadt Nordhausen (Thuringia) on August 16, 1951. As a 22-year-old he started at the School of Architecture and Construction in Weimar. He graduated five years later as a graduate engineer in architecture. An additional study at the art college of Berlin-Weißensee for plastics and ceramics was already a rich trend-setting…

“Embossed by graceful aesthetics and graceful appeal the sculptures and reliefs inevitably come in.“ These introductory words approach the artist with the attempt to describe his work as versatile and amazingly impressive. In 1972 Nando Kallweit was born in Schwerin. In 2001 he left the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck as a graduated civil engineer.…

The wood sculpting freelance artist Tim Weigelt was born in Jena, Thuringia, in 1976. Early on, he discovers a passion for two things: wood and the sea. Despite being a “Mittelgebirgs- bewohner”, he says, he feels connected to the sea and the water. When looking at his works, Tim Weigelt wants to provoke a smile.…

The artist born in Dachau in 1970 lives by the words of Erich Kästner: “The best way to do good is to be good.” Martina Kreitmeier finds equally fascinating and inspiring parallels of life itself in her artistic work: “I must deal with the natural conditions and characteristics of the wood as well as the…

“Embossed by graceful aesthetics and graceful appeal the sculptures and reliefs inevitably come in.“ These introductory words approach the artist with the attempt to describe his work as versatile and amazingly impressive. In 1972 Nando Kallweit was born in Schwerin. In 2001 he left the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck as a graduated civil engineer.…

Art made of marble, granite, and sandstone: this is how Roland Höft modestly summarizes his work on his website. He calls stone an archaic material, rigid and solid but full of life and emotion. You only need to work it out. The artist, born in 1971 in Warendorf (NRW), is a master of this craft.…

The Bund Thüringer Kunsthandwerker represents 60 professionally working artisans and designers in the Free State. Wood designer Heinz Günther (Heinrich von Thüringen) has been one of them since 2006. His studio in Hüpstedt in the Eichsfeld region is a frequent venue for creative, artistic craftsmanship, for example, when the sculptor invited artists to prepare for…

The inventive artist describes her work as creating simple reminders of the natural beauty in the world in a hope of inspiring joy, empathy and strengthening a sense of humanity in. Born in 1969 in Hastings (UK), the artist has been making these valuable principles a reality for over three decades. This creative period began…

After 2019, it is the second participation in the Sculptor Symposium of the Erlebnisregion Hohenfelden for the versatile artist and his multi-layered work. The “Wolfsmann”, then created by the artist from scrap metal and iron parts, also characterizes his more recent subject. Born in 1950 in Susice in the Bohemian Forest, professional articles already refer…

“Art will save the world.” These words introduce the Rostock-born artist’s short self-portrait on her website. A sentence that arouses curiosity, perhaps also because of the power of an artist who herself approaches her work with genuine interest, that dwells in it: “We are here to be creators. The act and process of making something…