Roman Strobl

Roman Johann Strobl ( * 1951 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian sculptor who lives in Hanover since 1999.

Strobl learned sculptures in the studio of his father Johann Strobl. About surreal works during his stays in the 1970s in Iraq and in India he made his way in the 1980s to Rome. There he perfected his marble works with Prof. Sebastian Schadhauser. Strobl's marble sculptures were, inter alia, 1986 at Haus der Kunst in Munich and in 1990 exhibited in the Städtische Galerie in Hanover CUBE.

The first Chainsaw works have been presented in Kaps Castle in Kitzbühel 1998. Chainsaw portraits of Bruno Bruni at an exhibition in Ahrensburg 2001, and Gerhard Schröder, Schily and Franz Beckenbauer were followed at the EXPO 2002 in Hanover. Another Highlights Room portrait of conductor Zubin Mehta was the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 2005.

Next to sculptures of wood, marble and stone Strobl's work also includes a range of expressive picture cycles on canvas and drawings. At buildings in Munich, Hanover and Austria in his sculptural work in public space ( art and architecture ) presented.

Together with Mechthild Schmidt Strobl was in 1997 for the redevelopment of the German Film Prize, the Lola, responsible. 2001 he created in close collaboration with Eva and Klaus Herlitz the prototype of the Buddy Bears.

Paintings and Sculptures from Strobl were first issued in 2009 at La capitale gallery in Paris in France.