Ottmar Hörl

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Ottmar Hörl in front of his “Blue House” in Ravensburg, 2006
Ottmar Hörl: Mr. Quick (sculpture in front of the dpa building in Frankfurt am Main, Am Baseler Platz, corner of Gutleutstrasse. Erected in October 1999 for the 50th anniversary of the dpa. )
Ottmar Hörl: Euro sculpture in front of the Eurotower in Frankfurt am Main
Ottmar Hörl: The Blue House , Ravensburg

Ottmar Hörl (* 1950 in Nauheim ) is a German conceptual artist , sculptor , installation , action , photo and object artist . He was best known for his diverse sculptures on topics of everyday life as well as for large-scale projects with serial sculptures in public space, which are based on his specific definition of sculpture as an organizational principle . He was professor since 1999 and since 2005 president at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . In 2017 he retired .

Life

Ottmar Hörl first studied from 1975 to 1979 at the Städelschule University of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main , then from 1979 to 1981 at the University of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf with Klaus Rinke on the basis of a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .

In 1985 he founded the Formalhaut group with architects Gabriela Seifert and Götz G. Stöckmann , with whom he designed the striking roof landscape of the Gutleut administrative center with the colored “hats”. In 1988 his works were shown at the Vorsatz 2 , the second major exhibition of the gallery Vorsetzen . In the early 1990s, Hörl was visiting professor at Graz University of Technology . In 1997 he received the COLOGNE FINE ART award . Since 1999 he has held a professorship for fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. His works can be found in many collections and in public spaces at home and abroad.

Hörl's artistic forms of expression are diverse and cannot be tied to a specific style. In his works he deals with the aesthetics of everyday culture . He defines the term sculpture as an organizational principle and discovers this principle in his environment, in which many objects of daily use are standardized and standardized.

On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in July 2012, Hörl was given a special honor by his students: 350 figurines Hörl with two rabbits, alluding to his most famous work, the "Large Hare Piece", were awarded under the Motto "350 Presidents for the Academy" prepared and set up.

Ottmar Hörl lives and works in Nuremberg and Wertheim .

Conflicts

Investigations into Nazi garden gnomes

In July 2009, the public prosecutor's office in Nuremberg initiated an investigation against Hörl for the use of symbols by anti- constitutional organizations . The occasion was an anonymous complaint against Hörl and the operator of a Nuremberg gallery, in which a golden garden gnome was exhibited by Hörl, who raised his right hand in a Hitler salute. Hörl himself understands the dwarf, of which there are around 700 copies, as a " parody of the manhood of the Nazis". In all previous exhibitions the dwarfs had given cause for discussion, but he himself was never brought into the vicinity of Nazi ideology . Even the Jewish community in Ghent , where the dwarfs were exhibited for the first time, were impressed by the work. The investigation was stopped a few days after it became known.

Installation with Nazi garden gnomes

In October 2009 Hörl showed an installation of 1200 garden gnomes with a Hitler salute in Straubing - invited and supported by the SPD local association. The Vice-President of the International Dachau Committee Max Mannheimer said that this public form of dealing with the past was completely out of place. Any attempt to play down National Socialism - even under the pretext of artistic freedom - is thoughtless and irresponsible.

Quotes

“A sculptor does not define himself by pouring tons of material into it, draping molds and realizing himself on the narrow traces of identifiability, but rather by setting matter in motion. Like a magician. "

- Ottmar Hörl : Quoted according to art. The art magazine, 1998.

Works (selection)

  • 1992: Car Flying. Hanover- Langenhagen . Sound cassette
  • 1998: The blue house. Ravensburg ( 47 ° 47 ′  N , 9 ° 34 ′  E )
  • 2001: Euro symbol in front of the Eurotower (European Central Bank), Gallusanlage, and in front of Terminal 1 of the airport , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003: The big hare piece. 7000 Dürer hares in Nuremberg
  • 2004: Carrying owls to Athens. 10,000 owls in Athens
  • 2005: Rottweiler. 500 Rottweiler dogs in the Erich Hauser sculpture park and in the pedestrian zone in Rottweil
  • 2009: Dance With The Devil. 1250 Nazi dwarfs in Straubing
  • 2010: Martin Luther: Here I am. 800 Martin Luther sculptures in Wittenberg
  • 2012: 1000 roses for Zweibrücken.
  • 2013: Installation “ Karl Marx ” in Trier in front of the Porta Nigra
  • 2013: The artist Kaspar Hauser. 150 Kaspar Hauser sculptures with watercolors on the Ansbach Sculpture Mile
  • 2014: 400 Goethe figures on the Westend campus of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014: My Karl , installation of 500 figures from Emperor Charlemagne on the Katschhof in Aachen on the occasion of the Charles Year
  • 2015: Homage to Dürer. In the Daegu Art Museum (South Korea) in cooperation with the Bode Galerie & Edition
  • 2015: Einheitsmännchen installation tour through Germany, from April to October, ending in Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2016: Theodor Fontane - Wanderer Between Worlds , Installation with 400 Fontane sculptures at the Kulturkirche Neuruppin
  • 2016: Rückert for Everyone , installation with 500 Friedrich Rückert sculptures, marketplace and art gallery in Schweinfurt
  • 2017: Exhibition Instructions for the Redemption of the Black Square, at the Kunstverein Mannheim
  • 2017: Zeppelin "Every beginning is difficult", installation with 300 serial Zeppelin sculptures at the Zeppelin Museum , Friedrichshafen
  • 2017: Wolves in the city, installation on the Veitsburghang in Ravensburg
  • 2017: The Nuremberg Madonna, installation with 600 golden "Nuremberg Madonnas" on the Kornmarkt in Nuremberg
  • 2018: Second Life - 100 workers , installation in the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site
  • 2018: Celtic prince with serial sculptures of the Celtic prince from Glauberg on Opernplatz and Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2019: Gottlieb Daimler: 500 Daimler sculptures in the park of Schorndorf Castle from May 10 to September 22, 2019
  • 2019: King Kong , installation as part of the 5th Urban Art Biennale in the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site

Public collections

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Formal skin. Architecture, sculpture. Verlag der Georg-Büchner-Buchhandlung, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-925376-08-9 .
  • Metabolism. The suit book. Häusser, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-89552-066-7 .
  • Material testing. Städtische Galerie Altes Theater, Ravensburg 1996, ISBN 3-9804641-1-3 .
  • Feeding the Five Thousand: Art Project "Fish and Bread". Häusser, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89552-064-0 .
  • Drawing. Class of Ottmar Hörl. Text by Eva Schickler, Häusser, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-89552-088-8 .
  • Berlin-Bearlin. Sculpture: 10,000 bears for Berlin. Häusser, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-89552-074-8 .
  • Dream house. Häusser, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-89552-072-1 .
  • The big hare piece. The Great Piece of Hares. With contributions by Ruth Händler, Ralf Huwendiek , Thomas Knubben, Birgit Ruf, Eva Schickler et al. Häusser, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-89552-094-2 .
  • Sculpture in the garden. Bode Galerie & Edition, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-9809333-1-8 .
  • Installation Martin Luther: Here I stand ... / Installation Martin Luther: Here I stand ... With a text by Albrecht Geck , Trier (Artist Agent Maisenbacher), Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-933487-59-5

Individual evidence

  1. Mr. Quick entry in the database art in public space Frankfurt, ed. from the Frankfurt am Main cultural office. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  2. a b Hörl, Ottmar. In: Munzinger Online / People - International Biographical Archive. Retrieved September 21, 2016 .
  3. artist. Critical lexicon of contemporary art. 45th edition. Issue 3. Munich 1999, p. 2 .
  4. Bode Gallery & Edition. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 16, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bode-galerie.de
  5. Nürnberger Zeitung . July 11, 2012.
  6. Investigation stopped. Garden gnome is allowed to show the Hitler salute. In: Spiegel Online , July 22, 2009.
  7. ^ Accusation: garden gnomes play down Nazi crimes. In: Merkur-online / dpa , October 15, 2009. Accessed August 24, 2011.
  8. Ruth Händler: What makes the cow a work of art?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: art. Das Kunstmagazin, issue 04/1998, pp. 70–79. Retrieved August 24, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  9. tag-der-deutschen-einheit.de ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tag-der-deutschen-einheit.de
  10. Völklinger Hütte website , accessed on October 22, 2018.

Web links

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