Miguel Horn

Miguel Horn (* 1948 in Passau ) is an internationally active visual artist who was born in Germany , grew up in Chile and lives in Austria .

Miguel Horn studied and worked in Italy, the USA, France, Mexico and Brazil and has had a studio in Neuhofen an der Ybbs since 1981 . His works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Italy, Mexico, USA, France, Brazil, Croatia and Austria, as well as on the occasion of participation in numerous group exhibitions. Thematically, Horn's sculptures on wood, stone and metal are frozen trains of thought.

With his work he takes a stand on the negative effects of our prosperity: loss of individuality, displacement of indigenous peoples, destruction of the last nature reserves, to name just a few.

Life

He was born as the sixth child of the sculptor Peter Horn and the painter Josefine Horn-Feja and grew up in Chile from 1950 , where his father had already established an existence in Osorno before the war . In 1957 the family moved to Santiago de Chile . During his apprenticeship with his father, he completed secondary school and graduated in 1966 with the final exam. In 1969 his father died.

In 1982 he married Ilse. His children David, Katharina and Sigrid were born in 1983, 1987 and 1990. In 1987 he began teaching at the Neuhofen an der Ybbs secondary school . In 1991 he took his family on a one-year trip to Chile and the United States of America .

Works

His first works were created in 1963. During this time he made the acquaintance of his great sponsor Heribert Reitböck (professor emeritus for physics - applied physics / neurophysics / brain research at the University of Marburg), who now owns a number of Horn's works.

• In 1975 he designed a five meter high sculpture called Je cherche mon visage in northern France and placed it without authorization under the Eiffel Tower in Paris ; this is now at the town hall in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ;
• In 1976 he worked for nine months on an eleven-meter-high sculpture Arbre de vie , which is erected in the city of Pontoise ;
• 1998 sculpture Mensch und Kommunikation , which was set up in the Waidhofen an der Ybbs roundabout, Ferraculus sculpture in Ybbsitz and Sclavinia memorial in memory of the Slavic settlement history of the area in Reinsberg ;
• 1999 Realization of the place of the forgotten peoples in Neuhofen an der Ybbs ;
• 2002 Creation of four monumental iron sculptures in collaboration with the Schmiedezentrum Ybbsitz, which were unveiled in a music and fire event in Lunz am See ; After the exhibition, the sculpture The incredulous Peter remained in the Abbey Park in Melk ;
• From 2000 he worked for several years on the installation Zeitzeichen in the Fürholzer quarry in Grein , which has finally been presented to the public since 2004 in a permanent exhibition called Galerie in Granit ;
• Tetragon project with five-meter-high sculptures for the seasons: spring - phoenix from the ashes , summer - high spirits , autumn - enjoyment , winter - last rearing up , setting up in roundabouts
• Sotto le Stelle
• Reflections - thoughts in steel : among other things, guardians of nature, bullying group, communication
• four themed information boards in Grein
• Ybbswächter , winning project of the first Lower Austrian Nature Park Landart competition
• Twin sculptures confluence , two identical figures each once in Osorno, Chile at the German school and in Mondsee, symbol for the confluence of cultures while maintaining the respective identity
• Sculpture group communication on the water in front of the district authority Amstetten
• A person from Eisenstrasse , a joint project with the workforce of the Böhlerwerk company

Miguel Horn: Petroglyphs in Grein - Gallery in stone

• Petroglyphs , messages from pre-Christian times chiseled in granite, as a model for permanent records of information from our time on Kalvarienberg in Grein, a project of the Grein cultural association in cooperation with the town of Grein
• Parkinson's sculpture courage to live , set up in the regional hospital in Mauer near Amstetten

Trips, stays and exhibitions

His first trip took him to Europe in 1971, where he carried out an exhibition in the Galeria i Templare in San Felice in Italy and accepted his first commissions from Reitböck in Pittsburg. This was followed by a six-month stay in Mexico in 1972 with an exhibition in the Galeria Joka in Mexico City .

1973 was characterized by commissioned work for Konstantinou in Florida and Reitböck in Ried im Innkreis . 1974 Exhibition at Mellon Bank , Pittsburgh. In 1975 and 1976, huge sculptures were created in northern France. 1977 followed a period of work in West Virginia with an exhibition participation in the Aaron Gallery in Washington, DC and 1978 a stay in Brazil with an exhibition in the Museo Jundiai.

In 1979 there was a large solo exhibition at the Landgrave Castle in Marburg an der Lahn with loans from Reitböck and in 1980 a partner exhibition with Christl von Stietencron in the Phoenix Gallery in Ternitz under the patronage of the Kunstverein Konstanz .

In 1981, as a member of the Innviertel Artists' Guild , he designed an exhibition in the Folklore House in Ried im Innkreis. In the same year he bought a small abandoned farmhouse in Neuhofen an der Ybbs and worked as an interpreter in an industrial company for several years . In between he took part in an exhibition in 1985 in the gallery CdB in Linz and in 1987 exhibited together with his mother in Sigharting Castle .

The next exhibition took place in 1993 in the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna, further in the Bildungshaus Lainz in Vienna and in 1996 in the attic of the fortified church in Hochneukirchen in Lower Austria. An alternative event on the occasion of the millennium celebrations in the atelier in Neuhofen an der Ybbs with Gerhard Ziskovsky as speaker and musical design by Erich Heiligenbrunner was remarkable. An exhibition in Blindenmarkt in 1997 was accompanied by violent protests by the Comradeship Association . In the same year a solo exhibition took place in the secularized church in St. Peter an der Sperr in Wiener Neustadt .

In 1998 he was able to present works on the main square in Sankt Pölten and in 1999 he exhibited in Ludbreg in Croatia at the invitation of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Zagreb . In 2000 the solo exhibition G ratwanderung took place in the town hall gallery in Waidhofen an der Ybbs . In 2001 he took part in exhibitions in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Ulmerfeld Castle, St. Peter in der Au Castle , in the Viertelsgalerie in Weistrach .

In 2002 the exhibition Fantasias in Eisen with seventy works of art mostly made of iron took place in the Stiftspark Melk from April to October , the exhibition Ecce Homines in Eisgarn in the Waldviertel from June to August . 2005 Exhibition of exhibits in Bad Hall under the name Metall im Park . 2008 Joint exhibition with Lebenshilfe artists in the gallery Schau-ST.A.LL, including work Untitled made of Thiokol, iron and wood , presentation of the rust- iron sculptures hands and 3 steles at the Tulln garden . Another joint project called Die Messerer was carried out together with an iron processing company in Böhlerwerk.

In 2011, three exhibitions were organized: As part of the “ Ridge Walk” exhibition , part of the European Weeks , four large steel sculptures were exhibited on the grounds of the University of Passau . In Ried im Innkreis , the exhibition Zeit (t) raum included monumental sculptures on the main square and on Stelzhamerplatz as well as works in the folklore house. The exhibition in Milan under the motto Ritagli sul Mondo was set up in the Artestudio 26 gallery .

Web links

• Literature by and about Miguel Horn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Miguel Horn
• Video: Works from 1948 to 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Culture Network Lower Austria Miguel Horn  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Homepage of the city of Grein: Gallery in granite
3. ^ Opening of the Rieder cultural summer. In: Web presence of the city of Ried im Innkreis, article from June 6, 2011
4. ↑ Tourism Abbey Melk Ferrum Mysticum - Fantasies in iron