Moritz Bormann

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Moritz Bormann (born January 13, 1939 in Hameln ) is a German sculptor.

life and work

His mother was the peace activist Eva Bormann. Moritz Bormann completed an apprenticeship as a gold and silversmith with Carl van Dornick. He then studied sculpture at the Werkkunstschule Hannover under Helmut Rogge and sculpture at the SHFBK in Braunschweig under Emil Cimiotti . From 1969 to 1971 Bormann renovated an originally medieval mill building in the city center of Hildesheim and founded the Bischofsmühle studio house with a studio stage and jazz club in the basement. Over the years, he built a publicly accessible sculpture park in the vicinity of the building with his own works and works by sculptors who were friends. In 1971 Moritz Bormann founded the artist group Kontakt-Kunst with Otto Almstadt (from 1974 also with Hans-Werner Kalkmann ) and with it set impulses for art in public space in Germany and Europe in 30 Kontakt-Kunst-Actions. In 1974 Bormann received the State Prize for the creative craft of Lower Saxony. In 1980 the mobile container museum "ANNA" was created, which has since been exhibited in various locations in Germany. From 1983 to 1985 Moritz Bormann taught on behalf of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts in the model experiment "The plastic product", from 1984 to 1986 stone carving at the University of Hanover , and 1996 to 1998 at the HAWK University of Applied Science and Art Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen . In 1985 Bormann worked together with Karl Huber on the renovation of the monastery church in Schönbrunn near Dachau. In 1993 Bormann realized his design "Sculpture Bouquet" with 11 German Spanish and Russian sculptors on the topic of international understanding. In 1994, Bormann furnished the lounge at the Helmstedt-Süd motorway service station with his “everyday sculptures”.

In 2009 Moritz Bormann had to give up his studio in the Bischofsmühle after a change of ownership. In the immediate vicinity of the building and the sculpture park, the art container was then created as an alternative presentation and work space in Hildesheim. Bormann has his studio today in Garbolzum . In recent years, Bormann has worked in cooperation with Arbeit and Third World e. V. several times together with the long-term unemployed. At the center of his sculptural work are the dialogic principle, a decidedly socially oriented understanding of art and the well-founded testing of new design techniques.

In 2018 Moritz Bormann was added to the 45 visual artists database and the digital estate archive of the State of Lower Saxony.

He lives and works in Hildesheim and Schellerten / Garbolzum.

Moritz Bormann and his work were included in the artist database and estate archive of Lower Saxony .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Hildesheimer Mühlen , Hildesheimer-Geschichte.de
  3. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Anna / Hildesheim , Kulturium.de
  5. ↑ Sculptor makes politics with art. In: Saxon newspaper . May 14, 2013, accessed May 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bormann, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin