Susanne Specht

Susanne Specht (* 1958 in Saarbrücken ) is a German sculptor .

Susanne Specht: Temple , 1996 (Heidelberg Sculpture Park)

life and work

Specht studied sculpture with Michael Schoenholtz at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1980 to 1986 . She received the Nafög scholarship for young talent and lived in Brittany from 1986 to 1988 as part of a DAAD study visit . In 1987 she won the Zweibrücken Art Prize and from 1989–1991 received successively a studio grant from the Karl Hofer Society , a grant from the Berlin Senate and a grant from the Eurocréation in Niort (France). In 1992 she co-founded the Töpchin studio community together with Azade Köker , Ralf Sander , Yoshimi Hashimoto, Andreas Theurer and other visual artists. From 1994 to 2000 she was a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts , where she directed the foundation course in sculpture. In 2003 she taught at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg . In 2008 she was appointed professor for design theory and three-dimensional design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld . Since 2013, Specht has been a member of the board of trustees of the Willms Neuhaus Foundation - Chance and Design.

Susanne Specht mainly worked in stone, especially eclogite and granite . Since 2005 she has been making works from concrete and other materials.

Her works can be found in public spaces , in sculpture gardens and in museums.

Works in public space

Two waves, in the background the Moselle

Susanne Specht: Intermundiensteine , 1998 ( 99Standpunkte , Langenhagen 2000)

• 1985 Bergstein , Larvik (Norway)
• 1995 Three goals , Hageberg (Wolfsburg)
• 1996 Temple , Heidelberg Sculpture Park , Heidelberg
• 1998 Source , Saarweg Sculpture Trail, Merzig
• 1988–2000 river station (3-part; granite), Tiergarten triangle in Corneliusstraße, Berlin, consisting of Wasserstein (1988), Quellstein (2000) and Wassertor (2000)
• 1998: Intermundien , in Berlin-Schöneberg in front of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital , Rubensstrasse 125
• 2001 Two waves (2 parts), stones on the river on the Upper Moselle
• 2002 Silentium , Nuthepark , Potsdam
• 2003 Mütter , Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art, Syke , dismantled in 2009
• 2006 Lange Bank (5-part, red-colored concrete sculpture), Pankeufer , Berlin
• 2007 Lights to the sea , Bodrum (Turkey)
• 2009 Cass Sculpture Foundation (GB)

literature

• Susanne Specht. Drawing and sculpture . City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1995
• Monika Schrickel (editor), Lothar Romain (text): Susanne Specht . Catalog. Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken 2003, ISBN 3-932294-95-5
• Birgit Möckel (text): Susanne Specht. Putting it together: sculptures and drawings . Schlassgoart Gallery, Esch-sur-Alzette 2006
• Susanne Specht: Reorganizations - Willms Neuhaus Foundation, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043714-4

Web links

Commons : Susanne Specht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Susanne Specht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Susanne Specht
• Artist Lexicon Saar

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berliner Zeitung of April 10, 1996
2. ↑ www.uni-protocol.de
3. ↑ http://willms-neuhaus-stiftung.de/ Willms Neuhaus Foundation
4. ↑ Works by Susanne Specht on Bildhauerei-in-Berlin.de ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.