Klaus Simon is a sculptor who regards wood not as a material, but as a tree or part of one and thus a living creature and individual. He often works with diseased, uprooted or dead trees, whose “life story” becomes part of the artwork, thus allowing the tree to live on. “Skulptur für einen Baum”…

Klaus Simon created a two-part sculpture for the Neandertal Kunstweg, which visualizes the traditional manual processes that had a role in the cultural development of mankind. A large block of native limestone was cut with a diamond wire based on an old industrial mining technique. A spiral was then chiseled into the newly smoothed surface…

Strictly speaking, the basic shape of Klaus Simon’s sculpture is a pentagon, not a pentagram. However, if you were to connect the non-adjacent corners with five lines of equal length, a pentagram (a five sided star) would emerge within the structure. As such, the pentagram is only implied and imagined, as enhanced by the viewer’s…

For Lemgo’s participation in the project Stad(t)t-Art, a 220-year-old, 35-meter-tall and no longer healthy oak tree was felled. Klaus Simon witnessed the event and used the wood to create a group of sculptures with a strong connection to the history of their location: “The woods had been shrunk down to a minimum 200 years ago…