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Michael Schoenholtz

Michael Schoenholtz

 

Michael Schoenholtz is one of the most important German sculptors of the 21st century. His formal language roots in a fundamental connection to the material. This relation is the basis and unifying aspect of content and form. In an archaic manner the shell limestone reports from another aeon and appears as a condensed temporality. Schoenholtz uses this immanent vibrancy of the material and lets the stone grow into an organic expression without taking its breath away. His works are originated in the human physis which defines the starting point of fragmentation and finds its aim in compact and architectural compositions. Schoenholtz’ own physical proportions act as an anchor and a security regarding formal arbitrariness. The human form is as important as the connection to architectural systems. Symmetry is flanked by a formal breakup, a geometrical austerity is breathed away by the rough surface and set orders find their opposite in unforeseeable sculptural solutions. Schoenholtz’ works claim for eternity in their concentrated and reduced language, which temporally directs to the past and the future and leads to a captivating aura. Symbolic and strong, vulnerable and vivid, impregnable but still within reach Schoenholtz’ sculptures compress fundamental knowledge of the human being and its inner structures.

 

 

Michael Schoenholtz, Kreis, shell limestone , 14 x 34 x 34 cm
Michael Schoenholtz, Verbeugung, shell limestone, 125 x 42x 25 cm
Michael Schoenholtz, Leib, various bricks, 68 x 32 x 32 cm

 

Biography

1937: born in Duisburg/ DE  1957-1963: Study at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin  seit 1963: Masterstudent by L. G. Schrieber  1965: married to the artist Barbara Keidel  1968: Burda-Preis for sculptur, München/ DE  seit 1986:  Member of the  Deutschen Künstlerbundes  1969: Prize of Böttcherstraße, Bremen/ DE  1970: Villa-Romana-Prize, Florence/ DE; Professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin  1975: Art prize from the city Darmstadt/ DE  1983: Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Prize, Hagen/ DE  1995: 2. Prize III Trobata d´Escultors, Calaf/Barcelona/ ES  1996: 1. Prize Mainzer art prizes „Eisenturm“ for sculpture drawings  1974: Member to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin-Brandenburg  1998: 2. Art prize of Diözese Rotenburg/Stuttgart/ DE

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)
1966: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung – Sonderschau M. Schoenholtz  1968: Museum Bochum  1969: Galerie mladych, Prag / CSSR; Galerie Brusberg, Hannover/ DE  1970: Kunstverein Wolfsburg/ DE  1972: Kunsthalle Mannheim; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Orangerie Schloß Charlottenburg/ DE  1973: Galerie Schmücking, Dortmund/ DE  1974: Museum Ulm/ DE; Galerie Stangl, München/ DE; Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen; Galerie Rothe, Heidelberg/ DE  1975: Galerie Lietzow, Berlin  1977: Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt/ DE; Wilh.-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg/ DE; Märkisches Museum, Witten/ DE (zus. mit Barbara Keidel)  1979: Galerie Rothe, Heidelberg/ DE  1981: Galerie Brusberg, Hannover/ DE; Galerie Lange, Berlin  1982: Museum Göttingen/ DE; Städtische Museum Schwäbisch Hall  1984: Kunstverein Augsburg/ DE  1985: Galerie von Laar, München/ DE  1986: Galerie Rothe, Heidelberg/ DE  1987: Galerie Gierig, Frankfurt/ DE  1988: Galerie Rehberg, Mainz/ DE; Städt. Galerie Nordhorn  1989: Galerie pro arte, Freiburg/ DE; Sprengel-Museum, Hannover/ DE; Städt. Museen Heilbronn/ DE  1990: Galerie Nowald, Berlin  1991: Galerie Biedermann, München/ DE; Galerie Gierig, Frankfurt/ DE  1992: Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen/ DE  1993: Einzelausstellung innerh. d. Neuen Gruppe, Haus der Kunst, München/ DE; Galerie Lange, Berlin (zus. mit Barbara Keidel) 1995: Galerie pro arte, Freiburg (zus. mit Barbara Keidel); Galerie Rehberg, Mainz/ DE  1996: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/ DE, Skulpturensammlung; Galerie Heitsch, München/ DE  1997: Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück/ DE  1999: Galerie Leo.Copp, Berlin  2000: Städtische Galerie Viersen; Richard-Haizmann-Museum Niebüll/ DE; Kunstverein Reutlingen; 12. Biennale f. Bildhauerei Poznan/ PL; „Sehen und Denken“ Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg/ DE  2002: Dasa-Museum Dortmund/ DE
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg/ DE  2003: Galerie Rehberg, Mainz/ DE; Galerie Wenk, Dortmund/ DE  2004: Kunstverein Emsdetten/ DE; Galerie Gerken, Berlin  2013: Galerie Gerken, Berlin (zus. mit Barbara Keidel)

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