Dietlind Petzold, who was born in Dortmund, grew up in Worpswede and Bremen and studied at Hamburg University. She further studied and worked in the Hamburg region, in Salzburg and at Pietrasanta.

Since 1979 she lives and works in Suvereto, Livorno – Tuscany, and since 1989 also in Heckenbeck (Germany).

In the 1970s her work centred on figurative portraits. During the ’80s her art evolved toward the abstract. She applied herself to the artistic rendition of the Gilgamesh epic and completes a cycle dedicated to Garcia Marquez’s novel “Hundred Years of Solitude” and another in homage to Schopenhauer’s philosophy (“The World as Will and Idea”). The ’90s saw the birth of many works, in which an inner drive opens up the marble. This period is also characterized by intensive exploration toward the evolution of the abstract portrait.

Between 1998 and 2000, the artist dedicated her energies to the “Over the threshold” (I sentieri dell’anima) cycle, dealing with mankind’s psychological-spiritual reaction to the approaching turn of millennium. The sculptures of this particular cycle formed a large itinerant exhibition that travelled from Italy (L’Aquila) to Germany (Moers, Brunshausen and Hamburg).

The idea for “Windows,” which were exhibited at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2001, stemmed from this cycle.

Dietlind Petzold’s works were brought to the attention of the international public through various personal and group exhibitions held in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy.

In 1995, the artist won the first prize in the international “Resistenza e Liberazione” competition. In the same year she was invited to exhibit at the Sculpture Biennale in Padua.

Dietlind Petzolds works are to be found in many private collections in Germany and Italy, as well as in cities and public collections, among which: Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Langenhagen, Metzingen, Campiglia Marittima, Dresdener Bank (Hamburg), Volksbank Metzingen, Golfclub Weserbergland, Gandersheimer Volksbank, Gagfah (Essen), Städtisches Klinikum (Fulda), C&L Deutsche Revision (Stuttgart), Skulpturenweg Bad Gandersheim-Lamspringe, Stadt Bad Gandersheim (Landesgartenschau 2023).