Thomas Schütte

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Thomas Schütte
Schütte & Bart Cassiman (left) in 2017
Born (1954-11-16) 16 November 1954 (age 69)
Oldenburg, West Germany
EducationKunstakademie Düsseldorf
Known forSculpture

Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Education[edit]

From 1973 to 1981 Schütte studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter, Fritz Schwegler, Daniel Buren and Benjamin Buchloh.[1]

Exhibitions[edit]

Kirschensäule (Cherry Column) at Skulptur Projekte Münster
Die Fremden (The Strangers) for documenta IX

Schütte had his first US solo show in New York at Marian Goodman Gallery in 1989.[2]

In 2007 he made Model for a Hotel, an architectural model of a 21-storey building made from horizontal panes of yellow, blue and red glass and weighing more than eight tonnes, for the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square.[3]

Schütte had one-man shows at venues including the Serpentine Galleries, London (2012);[4] Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2003) (later travelled to the Museum of Grenoble and K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf[5]); Folkwang Museum, Essen (2002); Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2001); a survey in three parts at Dia Art Foundation, New York (1998-2000); Serralves Foundation, Portugal (1998); De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, (1998); Kunsthalle, Hamburg (1994); ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1990); as well as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Eindhoven, (1990).[6] His monumental sculpture "Vater Staat" was displayed at Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany in 2013.[7]

Schütte participated in documenta in Kassel three times; in 2005, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the Venice Biennial.

Collections[edit]

Schütte's work is held in the collections of the Tate,[8] the Clark Art Institute,[9] MoMA,[10] the Berggruen Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[11][12][13]

Recognition[edit]

Schütte has received numerous awards, including the Kurt Schwitters Preis für Bildende Kunst der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, 1998, and the Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg, Germany, 1996.[14] In 2005, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his work in María de Corral's exhibition "The Experience of Art".[15] He was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize in 2010, previously given to Bruce Nauman, Marlene Dumas, and Rosemarie Trockel.

Art market[edit]

A cast aluminum sculpture by Schütte, Großer Geist No. 16 (2002), an eight-foot-tall sculpture of a ghostly figure, sold for $4.1 million at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2010.[16] Großer Geist Nr. 6 (1996), a bronze figure with green patina, fetched $5.3 million at Christie's New York in 2014.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Quinn Latimer (October 2009), Thomas Schütte, Haus der Kunst Frieze Magazine, Issue 26.
  2. ^ Michael Brenson (March 17, 1989), A Show's Instructive Provocation New York Times.
  3. ^ Searle, Adrian (November 8, 2007). "Thomas Schütte's on creating a new sculpture for Trafalgar Square". The Guardian. Retrieved September 22, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ "Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  5. ^ Adrian Searle (27 July 2004), Is that allowed? The Guardian.
  6. ^ Thomas Schütte: One Man Houses, May 12 - July 2, 2005 Marian Goodman, New York.
  7. ^ Reich ohne Mitte, Thomas Schuette und Danh Vo, August 5 - October 6, 2013 Kunsthalle Mainz.
  8. ^ "Thomas Schütte born 1954". Tate. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  9. ^ "Clark Art - Thomas Schütte: Crystal". www.clarkart.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-08-20.
  10. ^ "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  11. ^ "Discover Art & Artists". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  12. ^ Rahn, Katie, Recent installation "Vater Staat" by Thomas Schütte, May 4, 2011. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  13. ^ Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu. "SMB News: Museum Berggruen open in all areas once again". www.smb.museum. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  14. ^ Thomas Schütte, May 15 - June 28, 2003 Marian Goodman, New York.
  15. ^ Roderick Conway Morris (June 14, 2005), Pushing boundaries at Venice Biennale New York Times.
  16. ^ Carol Vogel (November 8, 2010), Records Fall at Auction of Contemporary Masters New York Times.
  17. ^ Thomas Schütte, Großer Geist Nr. 6 (1996) Christie's New York, 12 May 2014.

External links[edit]

Media related to Thomas Schütte at Wikimedia Commons

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