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Thomas Sch?tte (born November 16, 1954, Oldenburg, Germany) is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie D?sseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter, Fritz Schwegler, and Benjamin Buchloh. He lives and works in D?sseldorf.In the early 1980s Sch?tte began a series of small sculptural works depicting men stuck in mud. Today, Sch?tte s multidisciplinary work ranges widely, from early architectural installations to small-scale modeled figures and proposals for monuments, from extensive series of watercolors, to banners, flags, and photographs. From life-sized figures fabricated in ceramic as in Die Fremden (The Strangers) (1992) to miniaturised monuments cast in bronze as in Grosser Respekt (1993-94), Sch?tte has exploited transitions in scale and materials to great effect throughout his career.[4] Initially exhibited at documenta IX in Kassel where they were placed on the portico of the former Roten Palais of the Landgrafen von Hessen, which currently houses a large department store, Die Fremden (The Strangers) overlooked the city.http://rogallery.com/Schutte_Thomas/schutte-gallery.html