DIETRICH-MOHR has created a personal language all his own, making his sculpture immediately identifiable. From very early on, his unique style has made him stand out in the world of post-war sculpture, with the creation in particular of numerous monumental sculptures. Responding in his own way to the problems posed by new metal assembly techniques, he gives a new take on modernity through his use of plastics and expressions of brass, stainless steel, cor-ten. These he uses in a creative process rooted in orthogonality which curbs every outpouring and interpretive discourse. His creative gesture is based on a premediated approach, often preceded by drawings in ink or pencil, some enhanced by watercolours…

His technical expertise in cutting and welding serves as an expression in the continuity of concise and harmonious sculpture, of an intransigent purity, preferring understatement to discourse for a balanced vision…

The evident presence of his sculpture with its meaningful strength reveals to us the mystical paths of creation. Dietrich-Mohr is a poet as well as a metal sculptor. His uneasy questioning of reality finds answers in his steadfast showdown with metal sculpture. A language that he renders timeless.

Lydia Harambourg,

Correspondent of the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Catalogue edited for the “L’UNIVERS DU MÉTAL” (World of Metal) exhibition at the Eurélium in Chartres by the Departmental Council of Eure-et-Loir, 2015