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Since 1968 Peter Schwickerath is self-employed as a freelance sculptor with his own studio.
1988 on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Düsseldorf, he was organizer of the ″Kunstachse – Skulptur D-88″, in which more than 40 objects were placed between the old town and the main courtyard. Some of them remained in place.[1]
1981-1982 idea and organization of: ″Das ambulante Museum I + II″, the Stinnes AG, Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Peter Schwickerath lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany and Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Work
The ratio of mass and space, volume and space and the effect of surface directions in space, is the subject of his work. The surface of the body as a boundary, the line for coinciding body surfaces, as well as the color and structure of the material are the means. Peter Schwickerath preferably clearly defined shapes for his metal sculptures, such as the square pillar and the cylinder. These have, in their different arrangement and the interplay of mass and volume, display the destination, spatial relationships and to make recognizable. Schwickerath's special interest is the variety of ways in formal simplicity and austerity .[citation needed]
Numerous large sculptures are in public space, in sculpture parks at home and abroad, as well to private collections.
2006: 3. Schweizerische Trienale der Skulptur, Bad Ragaz
2007: Städtisches Museum, Kalkar
2007: Leicht und schwer, Galerie Feder, Murnau
2009: 4. Schweizerische Trienale der Skulptur, Bad Ragaz
2010: Große Düsseldorfer Kunstausstellung
2010: Landpartie, Westdeutscher Künstlerbund
2010: Skulpturenpark, Flottmann–Hallen, Herne
2011: Galerie Fochem, Krefeld
2011: Blickachsen 8, Bad Homburg
2011: Galerie 15a, Lochem, Niederlande
2011: Stahlzentrum, Düsseldorf
2011: Grosse Düsseldorfer, Düsseldorf
2011: Metall konkret, Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken
2012: Galerie 15a, Lochem, Niederlande
2013: Galerie 15a, Lochem, Niederlande
2014: Kunstverein Onomato, Düsseldorf
2014: Stahlplastik in Deutschland - gestern und heute, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
2015: Flottmann–Hallen, Herne
2015: Galerie Fochem, Krefeld
2016: Juego de Austeras Formas en Acero‘, Skulpturenpark Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, Uruguay[3]
Further reading
Vier Düsseldorfer Bildhauer: William Brauhauser, Hagen Hilderhof, Peter Schwickerath, Jun Suzuki. Ausstellung im Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, 1982
Stahl, Raum, Niederrhein. Kunstverein u. Städt. Museum Wesel, Galerie im Centrum, 1988, ISBN3-7927-1043-9
Smerling, Walter und Ferdinand Ullrich [ed.]: Public Art Ruhr. Die Metropole Ruhr und die Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Cologne 2012, S. 168f.
Stahlskulptur aussen: Peter Schwickerath; Flottmann-Hallen, July - October 2004, Hrsg. Stadt Herne, Der Oberbürgermeister, Autoren: Uwe Rüth, Hermann Ühlein, ISBN3-934940-15-3
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