Bernard Schottlander

Schottlander was born in 1924 in Mainz and came as a Jewish refugee to Leeds in 1939. He was a welder and plater and attented evening classes sculpture at Leeds School of Art. From 1949 - 1951 he studied industrial design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. From 1965 on he taught at Central Saint Martins in London. Schottlander became a fulltime sculptor in 1963 and had his first solo exhibition in 1966 at the Hamilton Galleries. He lived in Oxfordshire.

There was a major exhibition of his work at the University of Brighton Gallery in 2008 curated by Dr Catherine Moriarty, Schottlander exhibition 2008. Developed from the holdings at both the University of Brighton Design Archives and the Henry Moore Institute, this exhibition was the first retrospective of Bernard Schottlander’s work since his death in 1999