Roman Strobl

Who is Roman Strobl?

Roman Johann Strobl is an Austrian sculptor. He has lived in Hanover since 1999.

Strobl learnt to sculpt in his father’s workshop. Surrealist works inspired by his travels during the 1970s in Iraq and India were followed by a spell in Rome, during the 1980s, where he honed his skills in marble working under Prof. Sebastian Schadhauser. Strobl’s marble sculptures were exhibited in1986 in the Haus der Kunst, in 1990 at Kubus Bremen, and other venues.

His first chain-saw works were presented in 1998, in Schloß Kaps in Kitzbühel. Chainsaw portraits of Bruno Bruni at an exhibition in Ahrensburg, in 2001, as well as Gerhard Schröder and Franz Beckenbauer, at the 2002 Expo in Hanover were to follow. One further work worthy of mention is his portrait of conductor Zubin Mehta, created for the opening of the Munich opera festival, in 2005.

In addition to sculptures in wood, marble and stone, Strobl's oeuvre also takes in a series of highly expressive picture cycles on canvas, as well as drawings. He has presented his sculptures publicly at venues in Zurich, Munich, Hanover and in Austria.