Karlheinz Oswald
Karl Heinz Oswald (born 1958 in Worms ) is a German sculptor. He lives and works in a studio on Eisgrubweg in Mainz.
Education and work
Karl Heinz Oswald graduated from 1981 to 1990 to study sculpture with a diploma at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with Professors Werner Durth, (* 1949) Heinz Hemrich ( 1923-2009 ) and Peter Lörincz (* 1938). Between 1983 and 1988 he was already working in the studio community Römerberg the sculptor Professor Thomas Duttenhoefer, Wiesbaden.
For metal castings of figures, portraits and reliefs, the first works in the public domain in 1984, he received the Art Prize of the Southern Wine Route, Landau. 1985 of the Kahnweiler Foundation, Rockhausen, contracts Daniel -Henry Kahnweiler price he was awarded. The following year, Oswald received a scholarship from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Gutenberg grant from the city of Mainz. When Kunstverein Landau he received the 1st prize for his work lesson of silence.
In 1987 he was Mainz city printer and made a study trip to Rome. In 1988 he began studies and prepared the first dancer dancers sculptures. At the International Sculpture Symposium in Dreieich he presented in 1989 before first glass window. In 1990 he received the Prize Cultural Fund Mainz economy.
In 1989 he opened his own workshop in the historic sculpture studio Valentin Barth in the gold Brunnengasse the old town of Mainz, which he operated for two years until 1991. 1991 Oswald was awarded the prize of the Sports Toto GmbH Rhineland -Palatinate, coupled with a study trip to New York. There Oswald dancer studies made at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
In 1994 he made a study trip to Florence and Verona, 1996 dancers ballet studies at the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.
Karl Heinz Oswald was known primarily for his cast in iron sculptures.