Georg Scheele was born in Germany in 1961. He is trained as a stonemason and began his career crafting marble sculptures over 40 years ago.

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Coming from Germany, Georg Scheele chose Algarve (Monchique) and chose isolation to develop his own sculptural language. An encounter with the abstract forms through Henri Moore's pieces displayed in an Italian marble quarry were the initial ignition. In his Monchique atelier, Georg, an excellent craftsman, began experimenting with abstract figures. In his hands were born organic forms in communion with the landscape that surrounded him. Unusual forms, intertwined paths and loops of white or pink marble emerged from the forest.

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His first works were still half figurative, half abstract in their characteristics. Only later in the 1990s, when George Scheele emigrated to Portugal, his dealing with the form finally leads to a complete abstraction.

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But numerous obstacles obstructed the path of the artist: the loss of the atelier burned in one of the great fires in 2003 that devastated the mountains, and all the more so is the 2009 eye accident that has left-eye destroyed, a big setback. Since then he is half blind. After one year and several operations, he found his strength back and continues his research and pushes himself even more into the extreme virtuosity. Faced with huge blocks of marble, he transforms the stone in aerial curves and fragile-looking circles resting on a single point. Georg is a stone tightrope player.