Joachim Schmettau


Joachim Schmettau is a German sculptor.

Life

Schmettau has been living in Berlin since 1945. From 1956 to 1960, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he graduated as a student of in 1961. From 1966 to 1990, he participated as a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund at a total of 18 large annual DKB exhibitions. He was a founding member of the Gruppe Aspekt of the Berlin Critical Realists in 1972.
From 1971 to 2002, Schmettau was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Awards

His first works were in sandstone as well as in plaster and stucco. In the 1960s, he began to combine various materials and smoothing the surface extremely. Figurative and geometrical elements were also combined, so that the work as a whole appears to have an intensified stylization.
His works for the public space is also extensive. His best-known work is the 1984 "Erdkugelbrunnen" on the Breitscheidplatz in Charlottenburg, also called the "Weltkugelbrunnen" or the "Wasserklops".

Public projects (selection)