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Joachim Schmettau | |
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 Joachim Schmettau in 2012 | |
| Born | 5 February 1937 Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
Joachim Schmettau (born 5 February 1937, Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg) is a German sculptor.
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Joachim Schmettau | |
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| Joachim Schmettau in 2012 | |
| Born | 5 February 1937 Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
Joachim Schmettau (born 5 February 1937, Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg) is a German sculptor.
Schmettau has been living in Berlin since 1945. From 1956 to 1960, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he graduated as a student of Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber in 1961. From 1966 to 1990, he participated as a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund at a total of 18 large annual DKB exhibitions. [1] He was a founding member of the Gruppe Aspekt of the Berlin Critical Realists in 1972.
From 1971 to 2002, Schmettau was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.
His first works were in sandstone as well as in plaster and stucco. In the 1960s, he began to combine various materials (bronze, glass) and smoothing the surface extremely. Figurative and geometrical elements were also combined, so that the work as a whole appears to have an intensified stylization.
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