Hermann Scherer: Life and Legacy Early Life and Training Hermann Scherer was born in Rümpingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in 1893. He began his artistic journey not with a brush, but with stone. After leaving school in 1907, he undertook an apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Schwab workshop in Lörrach. This foundational training would profoundly influence his later sculptural work and understanding of form. Sculptural Beginnings & Artistic Development From 1910 to 1919, Scherer honed his skills working with a series of Basel sculptors – Carl Gutknecht, Otto Roos, and Carl Burckhardt. W…