Ottmar Hörl
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Germany
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, art professor and writer.
From 1975 to 1978, he studied at the "Städelschule
Städelschule
Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a contemporary fine arts academy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.- History :The Städelschule was established by a foundation set up by the Frankfurt merchant Johann Friedrich Städel in 1817...
" in Frankfurt and from 1978 to 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...
in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
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. In 1985 he was co-founder of the group Formalhaut, with the architects Gabriela Seifert and Götz Stöckmann.
1992/ 1993 Ottmar Hörl was Visiting Professor at TU Graz
Graz University of Technology
The Graz University of Technology is the second largest university in Styria, Austria, after the University of Graz. Austria has three universities of technology – in Graz, in Leoben, and in Vienna. The Graz University of Technology was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria. TUG, as the...
, 1999 he became Professor of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany. Since 2005 Hörl is president of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.In the classes for fine arts, sculpture, visual arts, painting, artistic concepts, art education, gold- and silversmithing, as well as graphic design, the professors and students carry out candid discussions...
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Awards
- 1994 Promotion Award for Architecture from the Berlin Academy of Fine ArtsAkademie der KünsteThe Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
(with Formalhaut) - 1997 Art Multiple Award, Düsseldorf
- 1998 Wilhelm-Loth-award, Darmstadt
Publications
- Formalhaut. Architektur, Skulptur, Verlag der Georg-Büchner-Buchhandlung, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3925376089
- Stoffwechsel. Das Buch zum Anzug, Häusser, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3895520667
- Materialprüfung, Städtische Galerie Altes Theater, Ravensburg 1996, ISBN 3980464113
- Die Speisung der Fünftausend: Kunstprojekt "Fisch und Brot", Häusser, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3895520640
- Zeichnung. Klasse Ottmar Hörl, Text von Eva Schickler, Häusser, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3895520888
- Berlin-Bearlin. Skulptur: 10.000 Bären für Berlin, Häusser, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3895520748
- Traumhaus, Häusser, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3895520721
- Das grosse Hasenstück. The Great Piece of Hares, mit Beiträgen von Ruth Händler, Ralf Huwendiek, Thomas Knubben, Birgit Ruf, Eva Schickler u.a., Häusser, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3895520942