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Lothar
Nickel spent the summer of 2000 in Pietrasanta, Italy, where
he chose a 1.5 ton piece of Carrara statuario marble for the
Coral Springs Museum of Art, to create his piece while he
was the Museum’s Artist in Residence from January 13
until March 31, 2001. Striding is the first
piece commissioned for the Museum’s nascent collection,
and will be on permanent display in the Main Gallery of the Museum.
Museum visitors were invited to watch the whole working process
of stone carving, from the rough block to the finished sculpture.
Children learned about the stone carvers of Italy and and
carried home with them small chips from the block. It was
an exciting several weeks to watch the creative process in
progress.
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Born
in Düsseldorf, Germany, Lothar Nickel was introduced
to stone carving during a trip to the west coast of Scotland.
His medium of choice is light-colored marble. Nickel maintains
residences in Boca Raton, Burghaun-Langenschwartz, Germany
and Pietrasanta, Italy, where he also has a studio.
The
artist holds a Diploma in Sculpture and Fine Arts from the
Alnus Scholl of Art, Bonn, and he was the winner of the 2000
Rhoen Salon Exhibit in Kunststation Kleinsassen. He has exhibited
extensively throughout Europe and the United States and has
work in private and public collections in Germany, Italy and
Florida. |
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