Dirk Harms

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Theodor Fontane . Dirk Harms, Guss Klaus Cenkier 2012, Schlosspark Plaue, bronze
Woman with happiness, made of clay - broken, burned, joined - always fleeing there . Dirk Harms 1996, Dorfstrasse, Grabow district, Möckern

Dirk Harms (* 1963 in Pretoria ) is a South African- German sculptor and doctor .

Live and act

Dirk Harms was born in Pretoria in South Africa. According to his own statements, he grew up privileged in his mother's South African-German family. The family lived with and from art . He started sculpting in high school . The first own exhibitions followed from 1982 in Bloemfontein , Cape Town and Windhoek ( Namibia ).

Dirk Harms studied human medicine at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein. After completing his studies, he went to Europe and initially lived from art from 1989 to 1990. He worked on Lake Constance , in Salzburg and Stuttgart and had an exhibition in Soest . In the following years he commuted between South Africa and Germany before finally moving to Germany in 1993. He passed his German medical license in Berlin . From 1994 he ran a practice as a family doctor in Brandenburg an der Havel . In 2008 Harms became the medical director of Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care (SAPV) in Brandenburg an der Havel. He gave up his practice license in 2014. In parallel to his medical work, Dirk Harms continues to work artistically.

Works and exhibitions

  • 1989: Work and exhibitions in Cape Town, Windhoek
  • 1989 to 1990: Work in Stuttgart and on Lake Constance, exhibition in Soest
  • 1991: Work on a large sculpture commission in Cape Town
  • 1994: Sculpture work, exhibition in Berlin
  • 1997: Sculpture woman with happiness, made of clay - broken, burned, joined - always fleeing there , ceramics , Dorfstraße, Grabow , Möckern, Saxony-Anhalt, created 1996
  • 1999: BAU ART Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2000 to 2008: OFF ART Brandenburg an der Havel
  • 2012: Theodor Fontane memorial in Plaue Palace Park , bronze , created between 2011 and 2012, cast by Klaus Cenkier
  • 2015: ten sculptures and reliefs in Nennhausen Castle Park , fired clay

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stations in the curriculum vitae. In: Dirk Harms Sculptor. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ My artworks - descriptions and overview. In: Dirk Harms Sculptor. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Stollowsky: Full Brandenburg fontanisiert. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 24, 2018, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Station 5: Fontaneort. In: Plauer Fontaneweg. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Heiko Hesse: The wind animates the conversation. In: Märkische Allgemeine . May 12, 2015, accessed February 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Harms, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-German sculptor and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria