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Ottmar Hörl is a German conceptual artist born in 1950 in Nauheim, Germany. Sculptures, installations, photographs and conceptual objects are part of the panoply of this versatile artist. From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Düsseldorf. He currently lives and works between Wertheim, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.

He acquired international fame thanks to his radical and avant-garde artistic concepts and his large scale projects involving sculptures in public spaces.
He is considered an offensive strategist who militates for a new type of art and who wants to implant his artistic vision everywhere while promoting the democratization of sculpture, like nobody else did it before.

His important contribution to fine arts has earned him several awards, the last one being the CREO Innovation Award by the German Society for Creativity in May 2015. Hörl is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Nuremberg and became its chairman in 2005. He is also a founding member of the group called "Formalhaut".
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Ottmar Hörl is a German conceptual artist born in 1950 in Nauheim, Germany. Sculptures, installations, photographs and conceptual objects are part of the panoply of this versatile artist. From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Düsseldorf. He currently lives and works between Wertheim, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.He acquired international fame thanks to his radical and avant-garde artistic concepts and his large scale projects involving sculptures in public spaces.He is considered an offensive strategist who militates for a new type of art and who wants to implant his artistic vision everywhere while promoting the democratization of sculpture, like nobody else did it before.His important contribution to fine arts has earned him several awards, the last one being the CREO Innovation Award by the German Society for Creativity in May 2015. Hörl is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Nuremberg and became its chairman in 2005. He is also a founding member of the group called "Formalhaut".

When was Ottmar Hörl born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1950