Klaus von Kreutziger

Short profile

Perfectly shaped. – Klaus von Kreutziger’s highly aesthetic bronze and wood sculptures are made for eternity. Starting decades ago with wodden intarsia, the artist ventured over time into ever more complex 3D realms, working meticulously for months until his ideas and visions are born as perfectly shaped sculptures and bodies. Amazingly, when creating sculptures, Klaus relies on his naked eye and on his hands alone, not on any computer. Thereby, the trained engineer and cello-soloist is concerned with more than aesthetics. Under his hands, abstract ideas are shaped into matter, undergo a spatial evolution and, finally, become concrete. His art is kind of a dialog between spirit and matter. The strictly mathematical and geometric merge fluently into bodies with platonic appearance, which, despite or precisely because of their simplicity, always surprise. There is an inner logic of perfect alignment and shape, based upon the interplay between technical know-how and deep understanding of the laws of harmony. In the end, the artist is concerned with essential philosophical questions, but also with encounter in a broad sense.

Klaus has exhibited his works of art in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.