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GEORG SCHEELE / PORTUGAL
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Georg Scheele (born 1961 in Hofheim am Taunus, Germany) is a sculpture artist that lives and works since 1990 in Monchique, Portugal, where he bought a farm in 1988. In 1984 he studied marble sculptures in Carrara/Pietrasanta, Italy.
Scheele chose the isolation of the Monchique mountains to develop his own sculptural language. His first initial ignition was an encounter with the abstract forms of the marble sculptures of Henry Moore displayed in an Italian marble quarry. In his Monchique atelier, he began experimenting with abstract figures. The landscape that surrounded the artist made him produce artworks in organic forms – “unusual forms, intertwined paths and loops of white or pink marble emerged from the forest” as stated by Scheele.
His orientation was particularly shaped in the beginnings of his career: In 1984, at the age of 23, the artist spent half a year in the famous marble quarries of Carrara, where he visited the workshop of Moore. The exhibited models animated him to continue exploring the possibilities of an abstract form language.
Scheele’s first works, which were created during that phase, were still half figurative, half abstract in their characteristics. A first milestone in Scheele’s career was the order of his sculpture Bartholomäus in Dinkelsbühl, Germany in the year of 1986. In the following year Scheele received the order for his Bonifatius sculpture for the church of Dinkelsbühl.
In the 1990s, after the emigration to Portugal, his dealing with the form led to complete abstraction. Other key figures who have influenced Scheele’s artistic self-understanding are the Russian Constructivist Naum Gabo (1890-1977) and his brother Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962), that were both founding members of the Parisian artistic movement “Abstraction-Creation” in 1931.
The artist endured great setbacks in his career: in 2003 Scheele’s atelier in Monchique fell victim to one of the great fires that devastated the mountains and forests. In 2009 an eye accident had his left-eye destroyed which left him half blind. After one year and several operations he gained his strength back and continued his research to push himself even more into extreme virtuosity. Faced with huge blocks of marble, Scheele tries to transform the stone in aerial curves and fragile-looking circles resting on a single point.
Behind the artist’s abstract figures Scheele asks philosophical questions like “Who am I?” that lead him to the inner exploration of what is constantly changing and what remains when everything we believe we are and what the world consists of has disappeared. The artist aims to create sculptures that express the essence and joy of what has been found and experienced as a constant questioning and sifting until his own being is reflected in all its purity and clarity in the form. He states that “form means transforming the spontaneous impulse into a conscious movement that freezes the inner state in the moment and ideally captures all dimensions - emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Forms that lead out of stillness into stillness.”
The marble sculptures produced by Scheele come in various sizes which he sets on granite plinths. His sculptures remind of floating ribbons coming together in spiraling solid bodies forming intertwined structures. Even through the material of marble is heavy and dense, Scheele’s artworks give off a light and flowy expression. The artworks are seemingly unattached and hovering over the mounting. His sculpture Connection (2008) was sold by Sotheby’s London in the Contemporary Art Day Auction on the 27th of June 2018. The marble sculpture measures 52.5 cm by 56 cm by 48.5 cm and has the artist's name incised on the side of the base.
In a few exceptional cases Scheele produces sculptures made out of bronze. He states, that to produce bronze sculptures is too expensive and too much of a hassle, which is also the reason the golden or oxidized blue colored sculptures only come in smaller sizes as of 20 to 40 cm.
Since 1992 Scheele’s sculptures been mostly shown in Portuguese exhibition spaces and also were represented by galleries in Scotland, Sweden, London, UK and USA were sold at Art Auctions in San Francisco, Lisbon, Madrid. His works participated also in ArtFairs like Sotheby’s London and Estremoz Portugal.
His sculptures were also part of symposiums around the world, such as the Sculpture Symposium in 1989 in Mainz, Germany, as well as at the International Sculpture Symposium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2005 and at the 4th International Sculpture Symposium in Hue, Vietnam in 2006.
His sculptures are part of different art collections.
Scheele chose the isolation of the Monchique mountains to develop his own sculptural language. His first initial ignition was an encounter with the abstract forms of the marble sculptures of Henry Moore displayed in an Italian marble quarry. In his Monchique atelier, he began experimenting with abstract figures. The landscape that surrounded the artist made him produce artworks in organic forms – “unusual forms, intertwined paths and loops of white or pink marble emerged from the forest” as stated by Scheele.
His orientation was particularly shaped in the beginnings of his career: In 1984, at the age of 23, the artist spent half a year in the famous marble quarries of Carrara, where he visited the workshop of Moore. The exhibited models animated him to continue exploring the possibilities of an abstract form language.
Scheele’s first works, which were created during that phase, were still half figurative, half abstract in their characteristics. A first milestone in Scheele’s career was the order of his sculpture Bartholomäus in Dinkelsbühl, Germany in the year of 1986. In the following year Scheele received the order for his Bonifatius sculpture for the church of Dinkelsbühl.
In the 1990s, after the emigration to Portugal, his dealing with the form led to complete abstraction. Other key figures who have influenced Scheele’s artistic self-understanding are the Russian Constructivist Naum Gabo (1890-1977) and his brother Antoine Pevsner (1884-1962), that were both founding members of the Parisian artistic movement “Abstraction-Creation” in 1931.
The artist endured great setbacks in his career: in 2003 Scheele’s atelier in Monchique fell victim to one of the great fires that devastated the mountains and forests. In 2009 an eye accident had his left-eye destroyed which left him half blind. After one year and several operations he gained his strength back and continued his research to push himself even more into extreme virtuosity. Faced with huge blocks of marble, Scheele tries to transform the stone in aerial curves and fragile-looking circles resting on a single point.
Behind the artist’s abstract figures Scheele asks philosophical questions like “Who am I?” that lead him to the inner exploration of what is constantly changing and what remains when everything we believe we are and what the world consists of has disappeared. The artist aims to create sculptures that express the essence and joy of what has been found and experienced as a constant questioning and sifting until his own being is reflected in all its purity and clarity in the form. He states that “form means transforming the spontaneous impulse into a conscious movement that freezes the inner state in the moment and ideally captures all dimensions - emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Forms that lead out of stillness into stillness.”
The marble sculptures produced by Scheele come in various sizes which he sets on granite plinths. His sculptures remind of floating ribbons coming together in spiraling solid bodies forming intertwined structures. Even through the material of marble is heavy and dense, Scheele’s artworks give off a light and flowy expression. The artworks are seemingly unattached and hovering over the mounting. His sculpture Connection (2008) was sold by Sotheby’s London in the Contemporary Art Day Auction on the 27th of June 2018. The marble sculpture measures 52.5 cm by 56 cm by 48.5 cm and has the artist's name incised on the side of the base.
In a few exceptional cases Scheele produces sculptures made out of bronze. He states, that to produce bronze sculptures is too expensive and too much of a hassle, which is also the reason the golden or oxidized blue colored sculptures only come in smaller sizes as of 20 to 40 cm.
Since 1992 Scheele’s sculptures been mostly shown in Portuguese exhibition spaces and also were represented by galleries in Scotland, Sweden, London, UK and USA were sold at Art Auctions in San Francisco, Lisbon, Madrid. His works participated also in ArtFairs like Sotheby’s London and Estremoz Portugal.
His sculptures were also part of symposiums around the world, such as the Sculpture Symposium in 1989 in Mainz, Germany, as well as at the International Sculpture Symposium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2005 and at the 4th International Sculpture Symposium in Hue, Vietnam in 2006.
His sculptures are part of different art collections.