Horst Linn

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Horst Linn (born June 14, 1936 in Friedrichsthal, Saar ) is a German sculptor , draftsman and art teacher .

Biographical

After visiting the Staatl. Realgymnasium in Neunkirchen (Saar) , where he passed his Abitur in 1956, Horst Linn studied at the University Institute for Art and Craft Education of the State. School for arts and crafts or the Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken with Peter Raacke , Oskar Holweck , Boris Kleint and Karl Lorenz Kunz and at the University of Saarbrücken with Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth (art history) and Hermann Krings (philosophy). After completing his artistic and philosophical studies in 1963, he initially worked as an art teacher in Saarland. In 1976 he was appointed as a professor of sculpture at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund , a post which he held until the year 2,001th His sculptural and graphic works, which can be assigned to Concrete Art, have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at national and international level since the early 1960s. Horst Linn's last major order for the time being was created in 2006 for his birth town Friedrichsthal, a monumental, symbolic steel and glass gate in memory of a bygone industrial culture.

literature

  • Horst Linn: Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, August 20 to September 18, 1994; Museum Bochum, November 5 to December 11, 1994 / [Catalog: Richard W. Gassen] Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, 1994 ISBN 3-9803903-2-2
  • Horst Linn, relief and drawing: Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, June 20 to August 24, 1997 / [Texts by Konrad Schmidt; Heinz Höfchen] Bergisch Gladbach: Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, 1997
  • Horst Linn: wall sculptures and works on paper; Kunst-Museum Ahlen, May 9 to July 4, 1999; [on the occasion of the exhibition Horst Linn - wall sculptures and works on paper] / [Catalog ed .: Art & Language Andrea Bergmann] Ahlen: Kunst-Museum, 1999 ISBN 3-925608-67-2

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personal data
SURNAME Linn, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, draftsman and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsthal, Saar