Hellmut Bruch

Hellmuth Bruch at art Karlsruhe 2013

Hellmut Bruch (* 1936 ) is an Austrian visual artist. He lives and works in Hall in Tirol .

Bruch is self-taught as an artist and has been a member of the Tyrolean artists 'community since 1984 and of the MAERZ artists' association since 1986 .

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Large circular shape (stainless steel) in front of the Erfurt Catholic Hospital

The central themes in Bruch's work are light and proportions, which relate to natural laws and take shape in “open forms”. His works relate to

• light as an "open medium",
• the gravity ,
• the Fibonacci sequence or the “ golden ratio ”.

Because his works relate to the reality of the immaterial, his sculptures and sculptures are not reduced images or abstractions of the visible, but rather follow the requirements that give shape to the material world and shape it. The resulting “open forms” build on universal constants and lead to infinity.

Hellmut Bruch prefers stainless steel and transparent, colored, fluorescent acrylic glass as materials .

Participation in exhibitions

The artist's works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Japan, Canada, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia , Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Hungary and the USA.

Working in collections

Bruch's works are in public and private collections in Brazil, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia, South Africa, Hungary and the USA.

Awards

• 1997: Great Prize of Honor at the 13th International Biennial for Small Sculpture in Murska Sobota in Slovenia
• 1997: Decoration of honor from the city of Hall in Tirol
• 1998: Awarded the professional title of Professor by the Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil
• 2012: Award of the Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol
• 2018: Tyrolean State Prize for Art

TV documentaries

• 1992: Artists for one world - images of hope , portrait for the One World group, design and editing: Krista Hauser, ORF Vienna

Web links

• Literature by and about Hellmut Bruch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hellmut Bruch's website
• Hellmut Bruch in the basis archiv wien for contemporary art from Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} awards. (No longer available online.) Hellmut Bruch, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ↑ Hellmut Bruch, Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol. (No longer available online.) Artfacts.Net, archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ↑ News from the government meeting: State Prize for Art 2018 / State Prize for Science 2018 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated September 18, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018.