Wolf E. Schultz

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Wolf E. Schultz (born July 12, 1940 in Swinoujscie ) is a German visual artist . He uses his initials "WES" to sign sculptures .

Life

Wolf E. Schultz, who used to work as a navigator , copywriter and photographer , has been a freelance sculptor since 1970 . In 1976 he founded the OMPF gallery next to his studio. Schultz was involved in numerous international sculpture symposiums. Since the early 1970s, he has participated in around 150 exhibitions at home and abroad. The artist has lived in Hude between Oldenburg and Bremen since the mid-1980s . Own catalogs as well as participations in community catalogs emerged. Schultz is the founder of the Sculpture Path (1989), the Sculpture Bank (1992) and the Sculpture House (1993) in Hude. In addition, he founded and financed the first international Hude sculpture symposium in 1990 . By 2011, over a thousand sculptures had been created in private and public spaces. From 2007 on, Schultz devoted himself increasingly to photography. In this context, he coined the term "forest spirits" with the traveling exhibition of the same name . As a joint project with the community of Hude in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg , he created the sculpture bank .

Wolf E. Schultz was awarded the Oldenburg District Art and Culture Prize for his life's work in 2019.

Understanding of art

Wolf E. Schultz mainly works with wood , stone , bronze and steel . He regards himself in his art as free from ideology, politics or advertising. In his opinion, art is not subject to economic thinking or a doctrine, but only obliged to one's own self. He sees the self as the interface to the whole of nature. Art expresses this relationship and should therefore not be instrumentalized.

"In my work I want to be real, to be with myself, that means to be authentic - without thinking about the market or other foreign regulations."

- Wolf E. Schultz : website of Wolf E. Schultz

Schultz defines sculpture as an examination of the invisible and the visible world. Freedom would become visible through people's relationship to forms. Forms are correspondences of feelings.

Literature (selection)

  • Lexicon "Artists in Hamburg", published by the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg: Christians Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-7672-0749-4
  • Issue 2/88 “Naturstein”, pp. 106-109, Ulm / Donau, Ebner-Verlag, 1988
  • "The district of Oldenburg - in pictures from yesterday and today", p. 65, Hegeler-Burghart, H.-G .; Oldenburg Isensee Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89598-667-4
  • "People, Pictures & Stories", Peters, K., "My tool is intuition", 2000
  • "Sculpture Plastic - Powerful Diversity", Schultz, WE, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, 2000, Isensee Verlag, ISBN 3-89598-746-8
  • “People, Pictures & Stories”, pp. 62 / 68–69, Oldenburg district, ed. Eger, F .; Oeljeschläger, B .; Wildeshausen / Berlin: CULTURCON medien, 2008
  • “Art in the Oldenburger Land”, pp. 202–203, ed. Weichardt, J .; Oldenburg landscape; Wildeshausen / Berlin: CULTURCON medien, 2012 ISBN 978-3-941092-83-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirja Zipfel: The oak with many faces . NWZ: July 21, 2011, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Faces from all over the world , Weser Kurier, July 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Verena Sieling: Forest spirits conquer the capital. Nordwest-Zeitung, August 21, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Verena Sieling: Art and Culture Prize for Wildeshauser Wildeshausen: Landkreis honors Wolf E. Schultz. Nordwest-Zeitung, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jacqueline Schultz: “I want to be real in my work”. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Wolf E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie