Leo Kornbrust

b. 31 August 1929 in St. Wendel, Saarland (D); German sculptor

He lives and works in his house in the "Damra", a natural and cultural landscape near the town of St. Wendel in the Saarland.

1943-1946	Apprentice cabinet maker in St. Wendel
1947-1950	Apprentice wood carver in Morbach, Hunsrück
1951-1957	Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
1957	Workshop in Munich
1960	Returned to St. Wendel, workshop in the Damra
1967-1970	Participation in the Symposium of European Sculptors in St. Margarethen in Burgenland
1971	Initiator of the International Sculpture Symposium in St. Wendel
1976	Co-founder of the artist-owned gallery and artists' promotion society Galerie im Zwinger, St. Wendel
1978	Appointment to the chair for sculpture combined with architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
1979	Initiator of the "Straße der Skulpturen" in St. Wendel
1985	Art Prize of the Saarland (1984/1985), Mia Münster Prize of the Municipality of St. Wendel
1991-1993	Deputy vice chancellor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
1998	Awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st Class
2004	Initiator of the society "Straße des Friedens - Straße der Skulpturen in Europa - Otto Freundlich Gesellschaft e. V."