Born in 1961 in Bielefeld, she grew up in a family of pharmacists and initially wanted to study instrument making before deciding on figurative sculpture – because it relates to the human being. Today she is an expressionist-realist sculptor. Since 2018, she has been teaching at the Scuola di Scultura in Peccia.
Bärbel Dieckmann studied Visual Communication and Sculpture. From 1991 to 1994, she taught stone carving and stonemasonry at the Master School for Craftsmen in Kaiserslautern. In 1993, she won a triple first prize in a public art competition (new district administration building in Bad Schwalbach) and soon after became a member of the Darmstadt Secession. She then moved to Berlin to work as a freelance artist. In 1994, she became the first artist from West Germany to win the Gustav-Weidanz Prize for Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle.The artistic tradition of her teacher Richard Heß, who was decisive in shaping her orientation toward a classical understanding of the figure, is of great importance to her. She sees herself committed to the modern concept of the human image and prefers classical sculptural materials such as bronze and stone. She creates models in terracotta, plaster, and many other artisanal materials, also using digital modeling programs, and casts the resulting works in bronze or silver.Throughout her life and in her sculpture, she has always sought her own path and loves to help her students discover and follow their own individual ways as well.
Languages: German, English
Kurse
05.–10.
Jul 2026