Benno Schotz

During his career, Schotz produced several hundred portraits and compositions including figure compositions, religious sculptures, semi-abstracts and modelled portraits. His bust of James Maxton is on public display at the Maxton remembrance garden in Barrhead near Paisley. Other publicly accessible work includes:

• Memorial to Provost John Jarvie of Kilsyth, first freeman of the burgh, commissioned in 1954 is a portrait in relief and can be seen in John Jarvie Square, off East Burnside Street, Kilsyth.[5]
• The Psalmist (1974) in the T. J. Honeyman Memorial Garden of Kelvingrove Park,
• the Joseph Black Memorial (1953) at the University of Glasgow,
• the statues of Saints Margaret and Ninian on the front of the 1929-31 (former) Bank of Scotland building on Sauchiehall St,
• the Painting and Sculpture reliefs on the Mercat Building (1928–29) and
• the Stations of the Cross sculptures in St. Charles' Parish Church North Kelvinside.
• the Crucifix in St Columba's Church, Woodside, Glasgow
• Ex Terra in Glenrothes town centre next to the bus station
• bust of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Scottish National Portrait Gallery (1924)
• busts of William Boyd, Mrs William Rettie and William Tattersall in Dundee Dental Hospital & School, University of Dundee[3]
• a bust of William Boyd's daughter Joan at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum
• bust of Keir Hardie, People's Palace, Glasgow[6]
• eleven foot high sculpture 'The Window on the World', Vale of Leven Academy Alexandria.

The majority of these works were all in Glasgow and the surrounding area. He was responsible for the repair on the bridge sculpture at Kelvingrove Park beside the now refurbished art gallery and museum.

Although Benno Schotz is frequently referred to as an Estonian sculptor, all his professional life was in Scotland. He became a naturalised British subject in 1930. He became a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1937. He headed the Sculpture and Ceramics dept. of the Glasgow School of Art from 1938 until his retirement in 1960. His active life as a sculptor continued thereafter with renewed vigor and he created his most ambitious and monumental works over the next 20 years. In 1963, he was appointed The Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland, a member of the Royal household. A major retrospective exhibition of his works (1971) was held at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. His interest in the drawing of trees developed, the drawings becoming more and more complex and abstract. He mounted a successful exhibition of Sculptures and Related Drawings in Glasgow (1961). His last sculpture was executed less than six weeks before his death, aged 93. He was Life-President of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Honors include: Freedom of the City of Glasgow; Honorary Fellow of The Hebrew University; Honorary LL.D, Strathclyde University; Honorary Member of the British Society of British Sculptors; Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland. Source: his daughter, Mrs. S. C. Crome, and son, Mr. A. M Schotz.

• Schotz, Benno (1981). Bronze in my blood : the memoirs of Benno Schotz. Edinburgh, Scotland: G. Wright Pub. ISBN 9780903065375.

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  Alexander Reid 1927
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  "Ex Terra" 2010
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  The Psalmist (1974). Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland
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  Joan 1933, the McManus, Dundee
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  Keir Hardie, Peoples Palace, Glasgow

• Jonathan Blackwood, "Benno Schotz: Unknown Estonian Sculptor", kunst.ee. Autumn 2007, Tallinn
• Benno Schotz, Bronze In My Blood (Edinburgh: Gordon Wright, 1981)
• Hugh T. Stevenson, "Schotz, Benno (1891–1984)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 July 2007

• Media related to Benno Schotz at Wikimedia Commons