About.

Nicolas Lehmann, Contemporary multi-discipline Designer, Sculptor, Manufacturer. Founder of the Forge 1997, specialist in bespoke functional ironmongery and designs; Nicolas Lehmann Bronze foundry 2009, Nicolas Lehmann Arts 2010. Born in South Africa 1970. Married in Saint Paul de Vence to French Spouse.

Lehmann holds mechanical engineering degree from the South African military Engineering Corps, (SAPPERS 4.2) where they held the world records in building the fastest mobile bridges in the 1990’s; Lehmann holds a master blacksmithing background, where he started apprentice at the age of thirteen. Nicolas Lehmann is an autodidact artist. He creates between his industrial art studios in Cape town, South Africa, his residence in Saint Paul de Vence and atelier in La Colle sur Loup.

If not sculpting, Lehmann can be found in remote areas searching for authentic materials and inspirations. Lehmann’s art is raw, stretching from Abstract destructed forms, to cubism inspired totems. His monumental, large-scale works carry a twist of humour and poetry. Fascinated by Nature and People his body of works captures the essence of the emotions, movement, a moment in time. Lehmann’s primary materials are up-cycled mediums such as Steel, Bronze, Glass, Wood. He has the particularity to cast his own bronzes at his Cape town-based foundry, and busy opening one in the South of France.