Born:    Rügen, Germany  1945 Lives:   Offenburg, Germany Dietrich Schuchardt was born on the island of Rügen in 1945.  Along with her other three children, his pregnant mother had fled her home in Hinterpommern.  The victorious Russian army was marching on Berlin.  She arrived with hundreds of other women, children, and aged refugees to the island's overcrowded hospital of Bergen.  Schuchardt was born on February 14th, the same day the British Air Force destroyed Dresden.  The winter of 1945 was extremely brutal, with temperatures well below zero and 2 meters of snow.  Thousands of Germans, fleeing from the ravaged Eastern German areas towards the West, had nearly nothing to eat.  The Bergen hospital obstetrician cautioned Schuchardt's mother to leave her new born baby behind, predicting the infant could not survive the harsh conditions.  She refused to give him up.  And the baby survived! The family lived in Erfurt, and then eventually settled in Offenburg in Baden-Württemberg in the South West of Germany, where Schuchardt attended school.  He left the Gymnasium and entered a three year apprenticeship as a graphic designer, after which he entered the Navy and served for 18 months.   In 1966 he began a two year training period as an art teacher and was an art instructor from 1969 until 2009.   Despite teaching full-time he remained a highly productive artist, thanks to his prodigious discipline.  He is a self taught artist who received little artistic or technical inspiration or help in his formal training.  He considers Dürer, Dali, Patinier, and Max Ernst among the artists who most influenced him.  The artist continues to live and work in the lush Black Forest region of Offenburg with his wife, Annelies.  They have two children, Julia and Marc. The universe of Dietrich Schuchardt's oeuvre exists centered in nature, informed by the white chalk cliffs of his birthplace of Rügen, the Black Forest of southern Germany where he lives and works, and his extensive travels.  Beauty, wonder, and mystery are found in the continuous cycles of decay and regeneration.   Man, and his consciousness, tools, and technologies are bound into these immutable cycles. The artist works primarily in three mediums.  Images are most often initially conceived and rendered as meticulous drawings, exquisite and precise in their draftsmanship.  These works are usually drawn in pencil on vellum and can be extraordinarily detailed.  Those compositions that exert the greatest fascination on the artist may be further developed as gouache paintings, painstakingly executed and taking from a few weeks to as long as half a year to complete.  The time period between the completion of a drawing and the beginning of a corresponding gouache can be as little as a few days or as long as several years.   Schuchardt has also gained considerable renown as a master engraver and has created over 250 etching editions to date.  Using an antique phonograph needle, the artist engraves a copper plate.  The engraving process for one etching can take well over 100 hours.  After the engraving is complete, the plate is etched in an acid bath after which it may be inked and printed, yielding black and white prints pulled one at a time.  In an almost extinct tradition, Schuchardt then hand paints each impression in watercolors and the result is a limited edition print that is a true original in the strictest sense of the word. Solo Exhibitions 2006    Perry L. Meyer Fine Art, San Diego, CA 2006    Behr-Thyssen Gallery, New York 2004    Dietrich Schuchardt - Retrospective, National Arts Club, New York 1999    Galerie 10, Karlsruhe 1999    Gallery of Surrealism, New York 1999    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1997    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1996    Short Hills Art Gallery, New Jersey 1996    Kunstverein Mittleres Kinzigtal, Haslach 1995    Dietrich Schuchardt - Grand Retrospective, Stadt Offenburg Galerie im Spitalspeicher 1994    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1994    Galerie im Brüderkrankenhaus, Trier 1992    Galerie Eva Tent, Koblenz 1992    Bild des Monats, Frankenthal 1992    Georg-Scholz-Haus, Waldkirch 1991    Städtisches Kulturamt, Gernsbach 1990    Dietrich Schuchardt - 100th Exhibition Retrospective, Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1989    Stubengalerie, Goslar 1989    Galerie Profil, Cham 1988    Galerie Rauch, Lörrach 1988    Galerie Wagner, Dietzenbach 1988    Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig 1987    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1987    Galerie Rost, Koblenz 1987    Galerie Daberkow, Friedrichsdort 1987    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1987    Galerie Waldherr, Kirchheimbolanden 1987    Galerie Vita, Bern 1986    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1986    Die Galerie, Saasbachwalden 1986    Galerie GO, Rehau 1985    Les Heures Claires, Paris 1985    Galerie im Spitaispeicher, Offenburg 1985    Alde Gott, Kunsttage Kurhaus, Saasbachwalden 1985    Galerie Götz, Stuttgart 1984    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbrücken 1984    Die Bilderstube Rühl, Bad Homburg 1984    Galerie Palette, Schweinfurt 1984    Atelier Theis, Bochum 1984    Galerie Bollhagen, Worpswede 1983    Galerie in der Alstadt, Altensteig 1983    Galerie Wertmüller, Brugg 1983    Chateau de Marly-le-Petit, Fribourg 1983    Galerie im Riesgässli, Lörrach 1983    Alstadtgalerie, Mosbach 1983    Werkstatt-Galerie, Würzburg 1983    Alstadtgalerie, Wiesbaden 1982    Neue Münchner Galerie, München 1982    Galerie Happy Joss, Hamburg 1982    Art Gallerie Pictor, Göteborg, Schweden 1982    Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig 1982    Galerie Andreas Weng, Mannheim 1982    Galerie Alfermann, Solingen 1982    ART 13/82, Basel 1981    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1981    Alstadt Galerie, Göttingen 1981    Mühlen Galerie, Gütersloh 1981    Endwerkgalerie, Heilbronn 1981    Galerie Nelsen, Böblingen 1981    Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg 1981    Galerie Karstadt, Köln 1981    ART 12/81, Basel 1980    Paulus Galerie, Albstadt-Tailfingen 1980    Galerie am Eck, Offenburg 1980    Galerie das Bild, Berlin 1980    Galerie Lutzke, Pech/Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1980    International Print Society, New Hope 1980    Galerie Neuheisel, Saarbücken 1980    Stubengalerie, Goslar 1980    ART 11/80, Basel 1980    Galerie Homburg, Homburg 1979    Galerie Hagen, Offenburg 1979    Galerie Daberkow, Frankfurt 1979    Galerie Nelsen, Böblingen 1979    Galerie Sevrugian & Bahls, Heidelberg 1979    International Print Society Galerie, Jerusalem 1979    Galerie Stücker, Brunsbüttel 1979    Galerie an der Düssel, Düsseldorf 1979    ART 10/79, Basel 1978    Galerie "Haus zum Dachs", Freiburg 1978    Galerie Alfermann, Solingen 1978    Galerie das Bild, Berlin 1978    Galerie Schmiedel, Bergheim 1978    Galerie an der Marspoort, Xanten 1978    die Keller Galerie, Homburg 1978    Galerie Krüll, Krefeld 1978    Galerie Tabula, Tübingen 1978    Galerie Dalberstrasse, Aschaffenburg 1978    Galerie Kunstgiebel, Friedrichsfeld 1978    Gloucester County College, New Jersey 1978    Galerie Art et Verre, Gelnhausen 1978    Galerie Aquarius, Cremona 1977    Galerie Riesgässli, Lörrach 1977    Galerie Gutenberg, Strasbourg 1977    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1977    Galerie in der "unteren Schramme", Biberach 1977    Galerie Daberkow, Frankfurt 1977    Galerie in der Weststadt, Hochheim 1977    Galerie Garuda, Darmstadt 1977    Galerie Tabula, Tübingen 1977    Stubengalerie, Goslar 1975    Galerie Hardy Schneider-Sato, Karlsruhe 1973    Galerie im städt Verkehrsverein, Offenburg Group Exhibitions 2008    Affordable Art Fair, New York 2007    Art D.C., Washington, D.C. 2007    Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL 2006    The Pavilion at Art Expo New York, New York 2006    Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL 2005    Chicago Contemporary & Classic, Chicago 2005    Art Miami, Miami Beach 2004    Galerie Irmgard Heyd, Hildritzhausen 2004    Art Expo New York, New York 2003    CFM Gallery, New York 2003    Galerie im Oberlichtsaal, Sindelfingen 2003    Art Expo New York, New York 2002    Städt. Museum, Engen 2001    Galerie Nova, Hagen 2001    Galerie Corona, Hildrishausen 2000    Neue Meister, Galerie Profil, Cham 1999    Galerie im Landratsamt, Böblingen 1999    Galerie Fruchthalle, Rasstadt 1999    Neue Meister, Galerie Profil, Cham 1998    Neue Müncher Galerie, München 1998    Gegenständliche Kunst heute Kunstverein, Offenburg 1997    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1997    Das Kleine Format, Kunstverein OffenburglMittelbaden, Offenburg 1996    25 Jahre Galerie Nova, Galerie Nova, Hagen 1994    Galerie Profil, Cham 1994    Galerie Kaufmann, Nördlingen 1993    Galerie Lübking, Minden 1992    Galerie Kaufmann, Bopfingen 1991    Neue Müncher Galerie, München 1991    Galerie Profil, Cham 1991    Realismus am Oberreihn, Schloß Karlsburg, Karlsruhe 1991    Galerie Raiffeisenbank Wetzlar, Wetzlar 1989    Galerie Nova, Hagen 1989    Kunst am Rohrbach, Heidelberg 1989    Galerie Götz, Stuttgart 1987    Galerie Moderna, Bad Kissingen 1986    Stubengalerie, Goslar 1984    Galerie der Schuldruckerei, Reutlingen 1984    The Creative Act, The Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey 1983    ART 14/83, Basel 1983    Stubengalerie, Goslar 1982    Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg 1980    Galerie Wohnen 80, Kehl 1980    Gloucester County College, New Jersey 1978    Wash Art 78, Washington, D.C. 1978    Arte Fiera, Bologna 1977    Galerie im Kreisschulzentrum, Offenburg 1977    FIAC, Paris 1976    Gondrom Galerie, Bayreuth Kunstverein-Hanauerland, Kehl 1974    Gengenbach 1972    Gengenbach Selected Bibliography 2004    Dietrich Schuchardt, Gallery of Surrealism, NY, (Retrospective Catalog, 24pp.) 1998    Tendenzen der anschauung, Kunstverein Offenburg Mittelbaden, pp.38-43 1995    Dietrich Schuchardt, Druckhaus Kaufmann, (Retrospective Monograph, 187pp.) 1990    Bis ich mir selbst begene, Druckhaus Kaufmann, (Monograph, 99pp).