Daniel Wagenblast
The sculptor Daniel Wagenblast, born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, in 1963, studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Professors Peter Grau and Rudolf Schoofs. Wagenblast has lived and worked in Stuttgart since 1990.
Wagenblast consistently works with figuration, which he doesn't smooth or embellish he rather reveals its materiality with rugged surfaces. The bronze or wooden figures always seem to be removed from the viewers and move in their own cosmos. One of the main protagonists in the artist's repertoire is the world traveller, whom he usually depicts with a gesture of looking out, thus awakening in the recipient associations of a quest, an exploration of the unknown and wanderlust.
Wagenblast has received numerous scholarships, including from the Kunststiftung des Landes Baden-Württemberg.
