Award winning Contemporary art gallery in Cranbrook and Knokke

Dieter Kränzlein (1962, Germany) became a full time artist in his early twenties after meeting the Hungary-born painter-sculptor Franz Dakáy and deciding to become a personal student of Franz. He works primarily with Norwegian marble and Mooser limestone, out of which he creates freestanding sculptures and wall reliefs. Using an angle grinder, he transforms the shape and surface of the marble and limestone into objects with regular and irregular grid patterns giving the stone rythm and movement. The combination of his artistic signature and the material properties result in unique works of art. His marble pieces reflect light when played in the sun through their crystalline properties, whereas limestone with its iron packed inclusions is looking fragile and porous.

In his recent works he has started to apply paint to the marble and limestone. Using red, yellow, green and blue paint he transforms the original materials once more. From a distance the natural skin of the material is hidden by these colours, but at close-range the original surface with its carved and grinded looks has a strong impact on the viewer. It is as if one can feel the inherent time contained within the stone and the countless days and weeks that went into the making of these objects.

Dieter's work is on display at The Lane Knokke.