Ranulf
Streuff

In 1950, Ranulf Streuff was born in Bitburg, Eifel. He grew up in a little village on the northern fringe of the Eifel mountains. At an early age, his keen interest in nature, sciences and music emerged. He finished high school with the general qualification for university entrance (Abitur) and started studying physics in 1968, in Bonn. After the intermediate diploma and a prolonged disease, he moved to Mainz and changed his subject of study in favor of arts, with the objective to become a teacher. His study focus laid on wooden sculpture and design with Helmut Stark, where he learnt to work on metal and wood.
From 1978 to 2015, he taught arts at the Domschule in Schleswig. Since his studies, he constantly worked as a painter and sculptor. But over time, sculpting
turned out to be his favored way of artistic expression.
In the 1980s, the gallery owner Friedrich Könning strengthened this resolve and gave him a long-term opportunity to exhibit his sculpture work in his premises. Ranulf Streuff was also influenced by the painter Gerhard Wendland, who encouraged him to go deeper into abstraction. Nevertheless, the “literal
aspect” stayed the most important element in Streuff’s work. In the following, he took part in joint exhibitions in Schleswig (“Männer/Men”,
sculptures, Schleswig cathedral), VHS/ adult education center, Schleswig, in Mainz, Trier, Seeshaupt (Atelier Peter Bernhard) and Munich (Gallery Krupan). In 2010, Streuff had his first solo exhibition at Akademie Sanckelmark, near Flensburg.
Inspired by Barlach, Maillol, Brancusi, Arp, Rodin, Lehmburg et.al., he wants to transmit the beauty, affection, originality and power, that he feels as well in jazz and in the blues. Being an active musician as well as an artist, he sees himself walking on a path to discover new horizons, constantly evolving, and open towards new challenges.