Walter Schembs
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WORKS
Walter Schembs | Großes sitzendes Paar | 2023-2024 | Eiche | 2.10 m
Walter Schembs | Portrait auf Türkis | 2023 | Holztafel | 125 x 82 cm
Walter Schembs | Portrait mit Schädel | 2022 | Holztafel | 125 x 90 cm
Walter Schembs | Portrait auf Türkis Ultramarin | 2024 | Palette | 120 x 90 cm
Walter Schembs | Portrait auf schwarzem Grund II | 2019 | Holztafel | 126 x 102 cm
Männliches Portrait auf Türkis | 2023 | Palette | 102 x 122 cm
Walter Schembs | Himmelsgucker | 2021/22 | Bronze | ca. 180-190 cm hoch
Walter Schembs | Himmelsgucker | Bronze | versch. Größen
Walter Schembs | Himmelsgucker | 2022 | Bronze | 190 cm + 175 cm
Walter Schembs | Hockende Figur | 2020 | 190 cm
Walter Schembs | Paar | 2020 | Bronze | 170 x 35 x 35 cm
Walter Schembs | Großes Paar | 2022 | Bronze
Walter Schembs | Stuhlmensch | 2021 | Bronze | h. 150 cm
Walter Schembs | Paarbüste | 2019/22 | Eiche | 160 cm
Walter Schembs | Doppelreiter | 2017 | Eiche | 172 x 66 x 31 cm
Walter Schembs | Großes Paar | 2022 | Kirschbaum | 205 cm
Walter Schembs | Frau mit überkreuzten Beinen | 2022 | Bronze | 190 cm
Walter Schembs | Hockende Figur | 2021 | Bronze | 186 cm
Walter Schembs | Stelzenfigur | 2022 | Essigbaum | 240 cm
Walter Schembs | Dädalus warnt Ikarus | 2021 | Bronze | 20 x 50 cm
Walter Schembs | Kleine Stele | 2021 | Bronze | 50 cm
ARTIST Info
Walter Schembs
Walter Schembs was born in Worms in 1956. Inspired by his training as a carpenter and furniture restorer, he began wood sculpting in 1985. His connection to nature and the will to be creative encouraged his path to being an artist. He is co-founder of the art triennial Blickachse Worms and received the art award of the city of Walldorf in 2005.
The human figure is at the center of his sculptural oeuvre. On the basis of the human body form, Walter Schembs creates typified and yet individual figures, whose faces he gives a character all their own.
Spontaneously, without making a preliminary drawing, the wood is worked by the artist. The roughly hewn surfaces of the sculptures convey a kind of primordiality and at the same time the artist’s passion for the material. Especially the wood of oak is used by Walter Schembs again and again, precisely because its special grain and structure gives the surfaces each time an unexpected and exciting expression.
Since 1998 Walter Schembs has also had bronzes cast in order to be able to place his sculptures outdoors. In doing so, he transfers the structure and grain of the wood into the bronze surface, thus achieving a fascinating haptic perception of the material surface. The viewer is inclined to touch the sculpture in order to be able to grasp the actual material.
Many of his works are in public spaces, including Finland, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg.
BIOGRAPHY
1956
born in Worms
seit 1985
first sculptures
ab 1990
freelance sculptor
Co-founder of the art triennial Blickachse Worms
Sculptor symposia in Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Bavaria
2005
Art Award of the City of Walldorf near Heidelberg
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2020s
BABEL Reliefs und Skulpturen von Walter Schembs, Galerie K am Dienheimer Hof, Bad Kreuznach, Germany
art KARLSRUHE Sculpture square
M E N S C H, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt/Main
2023
Gestalt und Figur- Holz und Bronze, Galerie Netuschil Darmstadt
Undenale, Undenheim Rheinhessen
Galerie K, Bad Kreuznach
VOLTA Basel, Switzerland
art KARLSRUHE Sculpture square
2022
Scharpfgalerie Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
distance & identity, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt/Main
art KARLSRUHE Sculpture square
In Bloom, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt/Main
2021
Figur & Natur with Gerd Winter, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt/Main
2020
„Menschenbilder“, Friedenskirche, Ludwigshafen
2010s
2019
Galerie Barbara von Stechow (With Tom Christopher)
2017
Galerie Barbara von Stechow
Alte Kommandantur, Kassel (Supporting program of Dokumenta)
2017
Art Karlsruhe
Galerie Strümpfe, Mannheim
St. Ludwig, Speyer
Galerie K , Bad Kreuznach
2016
Artclub Mannheim
Große Ikarusfigur, Skulpturenweg Abenheim/Rheinhessen
Art Karlsruhe
Galerie Zulauf
Galerie Netuschil, Darmstadt
2015
Kunst und Kirche, Pilgerpfad Frankenthal
2014
Kunst am Bau, Landesbibliothek TU Darmstadt , – Großer Lesender-
2013
Galerie K , Bad Kreuznach Galerie Netuschil , Darmstadt Galerie von Stechow, Frankfurt
Kunstverein Mannheim / Galerientage, Galerie Zulauf
Auftragsarbeit, Cello-Akademie Kronberg /Ts. – Hommage à Pablo Casals –
2012
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Landesgartenschau/ Bingen, 2004 Museum am Dom/Würzburg,
2010+2015
Kunstverein Speyer, 1994-2000 Galerie Fahlbusch/Mannheim
2000s
2009
Galerie Vömel / Düsseldorf
2008
Sammlung Plattner / Potsdam
2007
Kunstverein Zweibrücken
2005
Commerzbankzentrale Kirchberg / Luxembourg
2003
Museum am Dom, Würzburg
Schloß Waldthausen/Mainz, 1997 BW-Bank/ Stuttgart,2010 DWS-Bank/ Frankfurt
2001
Kunstverein Heidelberg
1994-2000
Galerie Fahlbusch/Mannheim
FAIRS
Art Cologne/Köln
Art Frankfurt
Art Fair/Köln
Kunst Zürich
Cologne fine Art/Köln
Art Karlsruhe
The soloprojekt Basel
PUBLIC WORKS
MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS AND ART IN ARCHITECTURE
(SELECTION)
Panoramamuseum (Werner Tübke Museum), Frankenhaus, Thüringen
Collection Plattner, Potsdam (Museum Barberini)
Museum am Dom, Würzburg
Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Main
Walldorf bei Heidelberg
Casals-Forum, Kronberg Taunus
Skulpturenweg, Abenheim bei Worms
Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt
Kusel, Pfalz
Collection DWS-Bank, Frankfurt/Main
Kirche am Pilgerpfad, Frankenthal
Schlosspark, Laubach Vogelsberg
Kurpark Bad Dürkheim, Pfalz
Land Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
Collection Brockhaus, Wiesbaden
Zweites finnisches Fernsehen, Helsinki, Finland
Schulzentrum, Volary, Czech Republic
Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt/Main