Peter Schwickerath

Biography

Born in 1942 in Düsseldorf, Peter Schwickerath studied from 1964 in the sculptor class of Adolf Wamper at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. 1965 he became assistant to the sculptor Curt Beckmann. 1966 changed Schwickerath at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied sculpture under Manfred Sieler and Norbert Kricke.

Since 1968 Peter Schwickerath is self-employed as a freelance sculptor with his own studio.

1988 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Düsseldorf, he was organizer of the ″Kunstachse – Skulptur D-88″, in which more than 40 objects were placed between the old town and the main courtyard. Some of them remained in place.

1981-1982 idea and organization of: ″Das ambulante Museum I + II″, the Stinnes AG, Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Peter Schwickerath lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Work

The ratio of mass and space, volume and space and the effect of surface directions in space, is the subject of his work. The surface of the body as a boundary, the line for coinciding body surfaces, as well as the color and structure of the material are the means. Peter Schwickerath preferably clearly defined shapes for his metal sculptures, such as the square pillar and the cylinder. These have, in their different arrangement and the interplay of mass and volume, display the destination, spatial relationships and to make recognizable. Schwickerath's special interest is the variety of ways in formal simplicity and austerity .

Numerous large sculptures are in public space, in sculpture parks at home and abroad, as well to private collections.

Public sculptures

Exhibitions

Literature