Michael Schoenholtz (April 8, 1937 in Duisburg – September 30, 2019 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.

Michael Schoenholtz was born in Duisburg in April 1937. After graduating from high school, he studied German and art history at the University of Cologne from 1956, and from 1957 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he was a master student of Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber in 1962/63. From 1971 Schoenholtz taught himself as a professor at the Hochschule (since 2001: University) of the Arts, where he succeeded Schrieber in 1975. Schoenholtz has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1996, from 1997 to 2003 as director of the fine arts section. In 2005 he retired.

Schoenholtz was a member of the German Association of Artists, of which he was elected President for two years in 1998. He lived and worked in Berlin and was married to the painter Barbara Keidel; the marriage produced a daughter. He found his final resting place in the artists’ cemetery in Stubenrauchstrasse, Berlin/Friedenau.

Schoenholtz worked mainly as a stone sculptor, who executed his works in a simple, reduced formal language based on large-format charcoal preliminary drawings. His best-known works include sculptures in the crypt he designed in the Frauenkirche in Dresden (1999-2005). Sculptures by Michael Schoenholtz can be seen in public spaces in Heilbronn, Nordhorn, Soest and above all in Berlin. In 1966 he took part in the first sculpture symposium Hořice in the Czech Republic.

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