Peter H. van de Locht (born November 9, 1946) is a prominent European Dutch-German sculptor who created a substantial number of granite, marble and bronze sculptures that have a permanent place in Dutch and German public space. Many of his works became a part of important private art collections as well as the art collection of Dutch national companies in trade and industry. As the son of a German architect and a master builder Peter H. Van de Locht grew up in an environment that was very much aware of the richness of natural materials, the immense architectural possibilities of public space and the desire to create inspiring energetic surroundings in which, in a subtle way, aesthetic and practical dimensions of human needs are balanced. At the age of 12, after a mystical experience that was related to the death of his mother, he decided for himself to dedicate his life to sculpture. His father allowed him to stop conventional education and sent him to the city of Emmerich where he started to work as pupil of the German sculptor Waldemar Kuhn. Waldemar Kuhn was the first in a row of important German professors that taught him the basic principles of sculpture. Central to these basic principles was the idea that sculpture always is the result of an intense spiritual dialogue between the idea of sculpture and the natural qualities of the landscape, whether urban or natural, the sculpture is thought to be joined with

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