Beate Leonard’s work makes use of a vocabulary of reductive aesthetic harmony. Her design, which not infrequently refers to questions specific to sculpture, result in abstract objects strongly supported by the choice of material used. In her studio, “vases” are produced in materials such as bronze, silver, aluminum and brass.

Lives and works in Lübeck and Bremen (D)

1987-91 Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau (D), apprenticeship as silversmith.
1991-94 Silversmith under Georg Jensen and Allan Scharff in Copenhagen (DK).
1994-99 Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg (D), class for jewelry and holloware (1997 appointed “Meisterschüler”).
since 1999 – Studio in Lübeck (D).
since 2011 – Cooporation with Koch & Bergfeld Corpus, Bremen (D).

Collections:
Die Neue Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, München (D).
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (D).
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum for Applied Art), Hamburg (D).
Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum for Applied Art), Berlin (D).
St. Annen – Museum, Lübeck (D).
Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum for Applied Art), Frankfurt/Main (D).
Silver Museum Sterckshof (Vic Janssens Collection), Antwerpen (NL).