Wolfgang Schlüter

German painter and jewelry designer

A Tribute to the Baltic Sea Landscape

Wolfgang Schlüter was a significant landscape painter and jewelry designer of the German Democratic Republic. In his metier, the artist, deeply rooted in his North German homeland on the Baltic Sea, developed his own distinctive forms and visual language.

Schlüter was born in Rostock in 1942. He studied art and jewelry design at the Academy of Fine Arts Heiligendamm and the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design in Halle an der Saale. As a lecturer in art and design, he taught for over ten years at the Academy of Fine Arts Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea. Until his death in 2019, the artist lived and worked as a painter and jewelry designer in Hirschburg on the Baltic Sea. Numerous of his works are held in the collection of the Municipal Art Collection Ribnitz-Damgarten, Schwerin State Museum, and in private collections.

"In a mixture of expressive form and color constructions, with which he traces motifs from landscapes and vegetal still lifes... with loose brushwork and sparkling intensity of color... This leads to ecstatic outbursts, a delight in painterly action to non-objective color and form expression, which can give creative impulses to the precision and concentration of jewelry design work. Wolfgang Schlüter's jewelry creations made of various metals such as copper, silver and fine gold are combined with precious stones and materials such as opals, lapis lazuli, moonstones, agates, rock crystals, coral branches or amber to create small sculptural formations in a kind of collage technique."

 

Klaus Tiedemann, Catalog 2012, former director of the Kunsthalle Rostock