Michael Hammers

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Michael Hammers (born August 1, 1965 in Aachen ) is a German blacksmith , artist, designer and scenographer .

Michael Hammers

Life

Cross of light above the Katholikon of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 1996

After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in 1984, Hammers completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and then worked in several workshops. In 1992 he passed the master's examination as a blacksmith and metal designer with distinction. In 1994 he founded the Nagel Hammers workshops with the architect Johannes Nagel. From 1997 he took lessons in classical singing.

In 1996 he was responsible for the packaging and transport of the monumental cross of light that crowns the dome over the so-called Katholikon on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The design came from the Wesselingen sculptor Paul Nagel and the architect Johannes Nagel. The technical concept and the implementation planning were created by the architects' office Johannes Nagel. The Nagel Hammers workshops were responsible for the execution. On-site assembly was managed by workshop master Andreas Grape.

In 2006 he introduced the Michael Hammers Artmanship and has since worked as a freelance artist and designer. Among other things, he designed the Golden Wall in the new house for Mozart at the Salzburg Festival . He also increasingly turned to audiovisual work. His film "From the Infinity of the Cosmos", a homage to Maria Callas , premiered in 2007 at the Metropolitan Opera , New York. In 2007 he founded "Michael Hammers Studios GmbH", in which craftsmen, architects, designers and engineers work together. Hammers primarily developed the basic artistic and technical concepts. His materials are metal, stone, wood, glass, light and color. In 2011 he founded the forge in Aachen.

In 2012, the collaboration with the painter Rafael Ramírez Máro began in a free artist community . He also works with and for the German artist Kai Althoff .

In 2013 Hammers developed the concert format “Michael Hammers - A Night Before Christmas”, which he started in 2011 with the arranger and keyboardist Andreas Brouwers, into a pre-Christmas musical event. At the 2014 concerts, the star guest was the American singer Angela Workman.

Honors

  • 2010 Appointment as honorary member of the Fachinnung Metall Rhein Erft
  • 2016 holder of the Krüzzbrür order of the parish committee Heilig Kreuz , Aachen

Works

  • 2000: The Millennium Cross Of Light , designed by Stefano Ricci, Rome
  • 2001: The World's Largest Crystal Octahedron , Gemological Institute of America's (GIA), San Diego
  • 2002: Northern Lights , Swarovski Kristallwelten , Wattens, Austria
  • 2004: The Swarovski Star , Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Michael Hammers, New York
  • 2005: Voyage , design by Yves Béhar, Swarovski Crystal Palace, Milan, Italy
  • 2005: Joie , Crystal Waterfall, Top Of The Rock, Rockefeller Center , Michael Hammers, New York
  • 2005: Radiance , Crystal Geode, Top Of The Rock, Rockefeller Center , Michael Hammers, New York
  • 2006: Golden Wall , Kleines Festspielhaus , Salzburg, Austria
  • 2006: Swarovski Gallery , Rockefeller Center , New York
  • 2007: Infinity of the Cosmos , avant-garde film about the life of Maria Callas , Metropolitan Opera , New York
  • 2008: Electric Fountain , designed by Tim Noble and Sue Webster , Rockefeller Center, New York
  • 2009: Crystal Wall Beijing , World Financial Center, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • 2009: The Swarovski Star , light show, Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, New York
  • 2010: Stadtmuseum Bruck , museum concept and exhibition design, Bruck adMur, Austria
  • 2013: Michael Hammers - A Night Before Christmas , development of a pre-Christmas jazz show format
  • 2014: Kaiser, Tod und Teufel , installation for the 1200th anniversary of Charlemagne's death, working group with Rafael Ramírez Máro
  • 2014: Star of the Innsbruck Mountain Christmas
  • 2015: I am home! , joint video installation with the Marxloh media bunker for the Duisburger Akzente 2015
  • 2015: In a different light , light installation for the performance of the B minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach , Musikhalle Hamburg , Hamburger Symphoniker , Gächinger Kantorei , Jeffrey Tate
  • 2017: Participation in the memorial for the victims of the attack on the Berlin Christmas market in 2016

Web links

Commons : Michael Hammers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AK%C3%BChnel_Gustav_Ein_neues_Kreuz_f%C3%BCr_die_Grabeskirche.pdf
  2. ^ "Charlemagne" , RMI of May 15, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!26543/
  4. ^ "A Night Before Christmas" , www.michaelhammers.com
  5. ↑ http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/aachen/angela-workman-begeistert-bei-ihrem-auftritt-in-aachen-1.981233
  6. ↑ http://www.kruezzbruer.de/wordpress/?page_id=118
  7. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/nyregion/thecity/04star.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Christmas "A Star Is Reborn", New York Times dated December 4, 2005
  8. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE2DA173AF93BA25752C1A96F9C8B63 “A Star Makeover”, New York Times, November 18, 2009
  9. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/bruckandermur/bruck_an_der_mur/2288951/bruck-hat-wieder-ein-stadtmuseum.story "Bruck has a city museum again", Kleine Zeitung of February 9, 2010
  10. ↑ http://www.christkindlmarkt.cc/?l=66 "The Swarovski Star now also in Innsbruck", Innsbruck Christkindlmarkt, star for the Swarovski crystal tree, Innsbruck, Austria
  11. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/wp/staedte/duisburg/nord/mit-heimat-akzente-etzen-id10240453.html
  12. ↑ http://hamburgersymphoniker.de/artikel-445-st-konzertdetails-806.htm
  13. ↑ https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/er-giesst-den-riss-der-trauer-am-breitscheidplatz
personal data
SURNAME Hammers, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen