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{{short description|German sculptor (born 1937)}}
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[[File:Joachim_Schmettau,_Erdkugelbrunnen_aka_Weltkugelbrunnen.jpg|thumb|Erdkugelbrunnen (1984), Berlin-Charlottenburg, Breitscheidplatz]]
[[File:Joachim_Schmettau_1975.jpg|thumb|Joachim Schmettau, 1975]]
'''Joachim Schmettau''' (born 5 February 1937, [[Bad Doberan]], [[Mecklenburg]]) is a German sculptor.
== Life ==
Schmettau has been living in [[Berlin]] since 1945. From 1956 to 1960, he studied at the [[Berlin University of the Arts]], where he graduated as a student of {{ill|Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber|de}} in 1961. From 1966 to 1990, he participated as a member of the [[Deutscher Künstlerbund]] at a total of 18 large annual [[Deutscher Künstlerbund|DKB]] exhibitions.<ref>[http://www.kuenstlerbund.de/deutsch/index.html?idcat=83&search=Schmettau%2C+Joachim&vor.x=2&vor.y=0&startid=0 kuenstlerbund.de: ''Ausstellungsbeteiligungen / Schmettau, Joachim''] (retrieved 24 January 2016)</ref> He was a founding member of the Gruppe Aspekt of the Berlin Critical Realists in 1972.
From 1971 to 2002, Schmettau was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, where [[Beate Schroedl-Baurmeister]] was one of his pupils.<ref>{{citation |date=1982 |language=de |pages=554–555 |periodical=Die Kunst und das schöne Heim |title=Der Bildhauer Joachim Schmettau und seine Klasse in Selbstdarstellungen |volume=8}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
== Awards ==
* 1968 [[Villa Romana prize]], [[Florence]]
* 1970/1971 [[Villa Massimo|Villa Massimo Prize]], [[Rome]]
* 1971 Medaglia d'oro, premio del Fiorino, [[Florence]]
* 1977 [[Berliner Kunstpreis]]
* 1980 Kunstpreis der Künstler, [[Düsseldorf]]
== Works ==
His first works were in [[sandstone]] as well as in [[plaster]] and [[stucco]]. In the 1960s, he began to combine various materials (bronze, glass) and smoothing the surface extremely. Figurative and geometrical elements were also combined, so that the work as a whole appears to have an intensified [[stylization]].
His works for the public space (façade reliefs, fountains, and so on) is also extensive. His best-known work is the 1984 "Erdkugelbrunnen" on the Breitscheidplatz in [[Charlottenburg]], also called the "[[Weltkugelbrunnen]]" or the "Wasserklops".
== Public projects (selection) ==
[[File:Joachim_Schmettau_-_Hand_mit_Uhr_2013.jpg|thumb|Hand mit Uhr (1975), Berlin-Hansaviertel, Altonaer Straße]]
* 1975 Bronze sculpture ''Hand mit Uhr'', Berlin-Hansaviertel
* 1978 [[University Library Freiburg]], Bridge sculptures
* 1982 Figurine group for the ''Deutschen Hof'' in [[Güglingen]]
* 1985 ''Tanzendes Paar'', Berlin-Neukölln, Hermannplatz
* 1986 Music fountain, Düsseldorf (Grabenstraße for the [[Wilhelm Marx House]])
* 1989 Europabrunnen (Dortmund), well installation consisting of 2 wells ([[Hellweg]])
* 1996 Sculpture ''Frau, sich die Maske abnehmend'' for the Kreissparkasse Heilbronn
* 1998 Brunnen Tanzende Figur, Waldplatz, [[Leipzig]]
* 2010 ''Musikant'', Löhne Music School, bronze figure for ''Tänzerin'' with [[Susanne Wehland]]
== Exhibitions (selection)  ==
[[File:Hermannplatz3_Berlin_Neukoelln.JPG|thumb|Tanzendes Paar (1985), Berlin-Neukölln, Hermannplatz]]
* 1970 ''Joachim Schmettau : Plastik und Zeichnungen'', [[Kunsthalle Mannheim]] (mit Katalog)
* 1978 ''Joachim Schmettau. Plastiken, Zeichnungen'', Studio Jaeschke, Bochum
* 1980/81 ''Joachim Schmettau - Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1960 - 1980'', Kunstverein Hannover; Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Deutschhof-Museum (mit Katalog)
* 1987 ''Joachim Schmettau'', Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (mit Katalog)
* 1993 ''Joachim Schmettau : Skulpturen, Bilder, Zeichnungen'', Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin (mit Katalog)
* 2002/03 ''Neue Skulpturen'', Galerie Poll, Berlin
* 2004 ''SOMMERLUST - KUNST-STÜCKE'', Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt
* 2007 ''Joachim Schmettau - Skulpturen und Architekturmodelle'', Galerie der Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin ({{ISBN|978-3-931759-21-6}})
== Exhibitions at home and abroad (selection) ==
* 1963 XIII. Jahresausstellung, Neuer Darmstädter Sezession
* 1964 13. Ausstellung des [[Deutscher Künstlerbund|Deutschen Künstlerbund]], [[Academy of Arts, Berlin]], Hochschule für bildende Künste und Haus am Waldsee (ebenfalls in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974,1976, 1978, 1979, 1981 und 1986)
* 1965 [[Große Berliner Kunstausstellung]], Messehallen Berlin
* 1973 ''Prinzip Realismus'', Akademie der Künste Berlin
* 1980 Große Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf (ebenfalls in 1981, 1983, 1084, und 1985)
* 1996 VIII. Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Accademia di Belle Arti
* 2000 Auf den Punkt gebracht. Porzellane für Meissen - Max Adolf Pfeiffer zu Ehren, [[Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts]], Leipzig
* 2005 Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf
* 2008 L'Accademia Nazionale di San Luca per una collezione del disegno contemporaneo [[Accademia di San Luca]]
* 2010 ''Glückwunsch'', Forum Kunst (1970-1010)!, Forum Kunst Rottweil
== Works in public collections  ==
* [[Osthaus-Museum Hagen]], [[Hagen]]
* [[Kunstmuseum Bonn]]
* [[Neue Nationalgalerie]], Berlin
* [[Berlin State Museums]]
* [[Lehmbruck Museum]], Duisburg
* [[Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea]] (Bergamo)
* [[Bavarian State Painting Collections]]
* [[Berlinische Galerie]] – State Museum of Modern Art, Berlin
* [[Kunsthalle Mannheim]]
* Museum Bochum – Kunstsammlung
* Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg
* [[Beelden aan Zee]], The Hague-Scheveningen
* Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
* [[Bundeskunstsammlung]], Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany
* Städtische Museen Heilbronn
== Literature ==
* Lothar C. Poll (Hrsg.): ''Joachim Schmettau : Zeichnungen 1967-1981, ein Alphabet.'' (Werkübersicht aus Anlass der Ausstellung der Zeichnungen von Joachim Schmettau in der Galerie Poll im April 1982). Galerie Poll, Berlin 1982, {{ISBN|978-3-931759-05-6}} (''Poll-Editionen''. Bd. 1).
* Joachim Schmettau: ''Skulpturen''. Stock-und-Stein-Verlag, Schwerin [2000].
* Joachim Schmettau: ''Zeichnungen''. Stock-und-Stein-Verlag, Schwerin [2000]
* Joachim Schmettau: ''Skulpturen 2003–2010''. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin [2011]. {{ISBN|978-3-89479-659-4}}
* Joachim Schmettau: ''Architekturphantasien''. Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin [2015]. {{ISBN|978-3-89479-939-7}}
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{German National Library portal|118608568}}
* {{LBMV PPN|32238012X}}
* [http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/die-schnalle-zum-klops-gemacht/807054.html Report on the Wasserklops in Tagesspiegel]
* [http://poll-berlin.de/Galerie/joachim-schmettau/ Joachim Schmettau, gallery of the Poll Berlin]
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