DR. GUIDO SCHOELDGEN

Artist’s Career

1970 – 1973
Studied with Prof. Weigmann at the Kunsthochschule Düsseldorf Cologne

1977
Doctorate in medicine with “Summa cum laude”, Düsseldorf

1978 – 1995
Fashion photography

photographic work in Africa (South Africa, Angola and Namibia)

since 2003
Photographs for “La Isla-Suenos de Libertad”, Reyes Caballero International Contempory Art Fare,
Balearic Islands exclusive contract with East Hotel Hamburg, for 133 original works including Famous Ballet Scene, 10x 10 m. Photo shoot and sketches of New York house and hotel design in Spain and South Africa,

2015-2020
Artwork for Designer Hotels

The artist

Guido knows how to captivate the viewer’s eye with a magical combination of photography and painting: Where does photography begin, where does painting begin?
The viewer is stimulated to think about this, while at the same time the magic of South Africa affects him – partly highlighted by South African pictograms.

Excerpt from a freely translated opening speech for an exhibition in New York, 1998, by Antonia Valdez, art critic and reviewer, Madrid:

“…it is an immediately recognizable art, but it also exhibits a magnificent originality…. The light is refracted and a velvety impression is created, transforming the image, sweeping the frame into the effect of a painting…Guido can render earthy terracotta tones and sandy colors as softly as velvety skin…or tenderly erotic female bodies.”