Herbert Volz

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Squares in motion - color and reflection, Waldenbuch, 2001

Herbert Volz (born November 25, 1944 in Moltketal, Trebnitz district ) is a German visual artist .

biography

Herbert Volz did an apprenticeship as a glass painter in Rottweil from 1959 to 1962 . From 1963 to 1967 he studied free and applied painting at the Saar College of Fine Arts with professors Oskar Holweck and Boris Kleint . Since 1991 he has been a member of the Baden-Württemberg Artists Association. Herbert Volz has lived and worked in Ulm since 1976 .

His abstract pictures , room concepts, glass windows and sculptures are characterized by a colored, constructive - concrete structure. Since 1985 they have been developed on the basis of the four colors from the edge spectrum .

Awards

In 1986 Herbert Volz received the Silesian Culture Prize of the State of Lower Saxony

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1979: Selection of Villa Massimo, Kassel
  • 1983: Sculptures in the Stuttgart State Pavilion
  • from 1984: Constructive tendencies group
  • 1987: Plastic in public space Biberach
  • 1989: Sculpture Summer Bad Waldsee
  • 2003: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 2008: Aalen Art Association

Sculptures in public space

  • 1981: Stuttgart Civil Engineering Department
  • 1984/86: Pyramid spatial structure, Ulm-Jungingen
  • 1986/87: Three basic colors compared, Ulm
  • 1987: The four colors of the edge spectrum opposite each other, Stuttgart
  • 1987/88: Stele, Ulm
  • 1989: The four colors of the edge spectrum in the cylinder facing each other, Dotternhausen
  • 1989: "Landmarks", New Town Hall, Ditzingen
  • 1989: Dotternhausen Column, (Ulm University Sculpture Trail)
  • 1992: Column, Neu-Ulm
  • 1994: Deutsche Bank Leipzig
  • 1994: The four colors of the edge spectrum in a row, Neu-Ulm
  • 1999: Illertissen fountain column
  • 2001: Squares in Motion - Color and Reflection, Waldenbuch
  • 2002: Senden well system

Other works (selection)

Stained glass window

  • 1999: Kreuzkirche, Nürtingen
  • 2000: St. Klara Church, Ulm
  • 2008: St. Augustine Chancel, Heilbronn

Room installations

  • 1988: Donauhalle, Ulm
  • 1988/89: Overall conception of the Center for Internal Medicine, Ulm
  • 1993: Merckle GmbH, Danube Valley
  • 2001: Wall relief Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch

Works in collections (selection)

  • Collections of the cities of Munich, Neu-Ulm, Nürtingen, Stuttgart
  • Collections of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Leipzig, Ulm
  • Wolfsburg Art Museum, Mondrianhaus Amersfoort, State Gallery Stuttgart

Photos (selection)

literature

  • Caius Burri and Karl-Heinz Reisert: Ulm University Art Path (1991), Ulm Art Foundation “Pro Arte”, Ulm
  • Caius Burri and Petra Kollros: Large- scale sculpture in Ulm and Neu-Ulm . Ulm Art Foundation, Ulm

Web links

Commons : Herbert Volz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files