Maximilian Verhas

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The artist with "Big Rolling Body No. 1", polyester / stainless steel, 250 × 300 × 250 cm, 1998
Maximilian Verhas: Vernissage at the Sculptur Gallery ( Bamberg ) on April 4, 2007

Maximilian Verhas (* 1960 in Essen ) is a German sculptor .

Maximilian Verhas became famous for his "rolling bodies" , which he has been working with since the early 1990s . Due to their unusual shape and mass distribution, these abstract sculptures can be set in motion on a smooth surface with a light push.

biography

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf in 1981 and doing various internships (including costume designer in Cologne and graphic artist in The Hague ), he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . When Clemens Fischer and Georg Karl Pfahler he studied painting and graphic and Christian Hoepfner figurative sculpture. In 1985 Verhas worked as a metal designer. In 1986 he started his studies at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1987 he began developing steel compositions and studied at the College of Art in Canterbury . 1989 followed a study trip to New York City . In 1990 he completed his studies as a master student of David Evison , with whom he studied abstract steel sculpture. He lives and works in Berlin .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990 Large steel sculptures - Rheinboden-Hypothekenbank, Cologne
  • 1992 Galerie Forum Herrentierbach, Baden-Württemberg
  • 1993 Zeitform - Galerie Oderform, Berlin
  • 1994 Maximilian Verhas with Helmut Bruch and F. Meyer-Roland - Sculpture Gallery Messer-Ladwig, Berlin
  • 1994 found objects - in Schöneberg Town Hall, Berlin
  • 1994 Steel sculptures - Messer-Ladwig sculpture gallery, Berlin
  • 1995 sculpture in motion - Stichting Museum Vaals, NIL
  • 1996 Gallery at the New Palais, Potsdam
  • 1997 Klauspeter Westenhoff Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1998 steel sculptures - Petruskirche Berlin
  • 1999 Rolling Body - Sculpture Gallery Messer-Ladwig, Berlin
  • 1999 New Sculptures - Galerie Klauspeter Westhoff, Hamburg
  • 2000 moving sculptures - Museum Dr. Bamberg House, Rendsburg
  • 2000 Ring of Kerry in the sculpture garden, Rendsburg
  • 2001 Rolling body with pictures by Sergeij Poliakoff, Galerie Klauspeter Westhoff, Hamburg
  • 2001 Rollkörper, parliamentary editorial office of the Rheinische Post, Berlin
  • 2002 moving sculptures - ING - BHF Bank, Berlin
  • 2002–2003 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main - catalog of works 2002
  • 2002–2003 Gallery Effelsberg, Königswinter
  • 2002–2003 Galerie Leu, Munich
  • 2007 Gallery Sculptur, Bamberg
  • 2009 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin - Still in motion
  • 2011 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin - Still in motion

literature

  • Barbara von Stechow Gallery, Carola Weber Gallery, Klauspeter Westenhoff Gallery, Maximilian Verhas (ed.): Moving sculptures - Maximilian Verhas. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-363-00764-7
  • "Maximilian Verhas - Sculptures in Motion", ed. by ArtInFlow, Verlag für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938457-04-7 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Verhas, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH eat