Thomas Schütte

Thomas Schütte (right) and Bart Cassiman in 2017

Thomas Schütte (born November 16, 1954 in Oldenburg ) is a German sculptor and draftsman.

Life

Sculpture Hall - Thomas Schütte Foundation, Neuss-Holzheim (April 2016)

Schütte studied from 1973 to 1981 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Fritz Schwegler and Gerhard Richter . He shows great versatility in his works. Both in the techniques used and in the design, his work largely eludes all specifications. There are architectural models from Schütte such as the holiday homes for terrorists , as well as etchings and voluminous sculptures. His appearance at the Venice Art Biennale 2005 represents a high point in his career, as he was awarded the prize for the best artist in the exhibition. At the end of 2007, the Model for a Hotel 2007 Schüttes work made of colored glass panels was selected for the fourth pillar of Trafalgar Square . His figure of the father state can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Nationalgalerie Berlin . Schuette's bronze sculpture United Enemies was exhibited in Central Park, New York , between March 5 and August 25, 2013 . Schütte's bronze sculpture Großer Geist has been standing on the steps of the Neues Museum in Weimar since 1998 .

Working with his hands, drawing, watercoloring, modeling, shaping with clay and modeling clay, building with wood and other materials are the focus of his artistic activity.

On the site of the former Hombroich rocket station near Neuss , not far from the Museum Insel Hombroich and in the immediate vicinity of the Langen Foundation , he built his own sculpture hall , which opened in April 2016. The hall is used exclusively for the exhibition of third-party works and for storing one's own sculptures. In 2019, Schütte designed a pavilion with a diameter of 15 meters for Krefeld on the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary .

Thomas Schütte lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Exhibitions

1984 - From here - Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf

Schütte was involved in the documenta in 1987, 1992 and 1997 .

In 1987 he set up the cherry pillar sculpture for the exhibition Skulptur.Projekte in Münster .

2003 touring exhibition Crusade , beginning in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, then in the Musée de Grenoble and in the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf

In 2004/2005 there were exhibitions in New York, Cologne, Madrid, Turin, Vienna, Basel and Chicago.

2007/2008 exhibitions on Schütte's early work at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds and at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein , Vaduz.

At the 4th Berlin Biennale for contemporary art he was represented with the work Capacity Men .

His spectacular Documenta exhibit, The Strangers (1992), a group of ceramic clay sculptures, is now separated: One part is still in Kassel , the other part is on the roof of the Lübeck Music and Congress Hall (MuK) in Lübeck .

2009: Solo exhibition, Haus der Kunst , Munich

2009: Etchings in the Horst Janssen Museum , Oldenburg

2010: Hindsight , Museo Reina Sofia , Madrid

2010: Solo exhibition Big Buildings. Models and views , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn

2013: Solo exhibition, Fondation Beyeler , Riehen / Basel

2013: Solo exhibition women , Folkwang Museum Essen

2014: Solo exhibition, Vogelmann art gallery , Heilbronn

2014: Group exhibition Vanitas - Nothing is everlasting. , Georg Kolbe Museum

2018: Exhibition, Oldenburger Kunstverein , Oldenburg

2019: Solo exhibition Three Acts , Monnaie de Paris , Paris

2019: Solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz

Public collections

gallery

Cherry pillar
Munster
Cherry pillar
Münster ( Sculpture Projects 1987)
Great spirit at the main entrance of the New Museum
Weimar
Mrs. No. 13 (2003) in front of the Museum Ludwig
Cologne
The strangers , documenta IX
The foreigners , music and congress hall
Lübeck
Memorial for resistance fighters
Hamburg-Niendorf
United Enemies , (2011)
Berlin-Charlottenburg
"Pavilion" (2019)
Krefeld

Awards

1990 Arnold Bode Prize from documenta - City of Kassel

1992 scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo

1996 Young City Art Prize sees young art from the city of Wolfsburg
1998 Kurt Schwitters Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation
2004 Lichtwark Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
2005 “Kunstköln” award (10,000 euros) now: Cologne Fine Art award
At the Venice Art Biennale in June 2005 he was awarded the 'Golden Lion' as the best individual artist in the exhibition.
2010 Art Prize of the State Capital Düsseldorf
2014 Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for contemporary sculpture , Heilbronn

literature

Nathalie Küchen: Thomas Schütte. , in: Georg-Kolbe-Museum (ed.): Vanitas - Eternal is nothing. Exhibition catalog, Berlin, 2014, p. 66.
Thomas Schütte. Big Buildings. Models and views 1980-2010. Exhibition catalog, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2010 (foreword by Robert Fleck, with contributions by Rainald Schumacher, in German and English), Verlag Snoeck, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-940953-54-4 .
Thomas Schütte - Simulation and Reality . In: Markus Stegmann: Architectural Sculpture in the 20th Century. Historical aspects and work structures , Tübingen 1995, pages 163–171.