Johannes von Stumm PPRSS

Johannes von Stumm is an internationally established sculptor living and working in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

Johannes von Stumm¹s unique combination of three different materials has attracted public and critical acclaim in three decades oHis startlingly original sculpture, which engages continually with risk and a defiance of accepted laws, joins metal, stone and glass to create abstract or reduced figurative works in which apparently conflicting materials exist in complex harmony.

In forty years of combining metal with glass and stone, Johannes von Stumm has fused the light and the dark, the solid and the liquid, the opaque and the transparent, our strength and our fragility, into incantations of a delicate balance.
 

His ‘Immaterial Figures¹, rooted in his work with glass, are filled - again - with light and darkness, with the sun, the moon and the stars, with rain, hail and snow.

The emptiness of the human form allows it to be permeated by the whole universe around it. 

Emptiness becomes Fullness.

Johannes studied sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Germany.

1995 he moved to Britain, became a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1997 and President of the Royal Society from 2009 to 2012.

He is a Founding member of Sculpture Network (Europe), was President of the Oxford Art Society from 2014 to 2022 and President of the Open Studios West Berkshire and Northampshire from 2014 to 2020.

He serves as a Trustee for the Reading Foundation for Art.