17 facts about Horst Antes

Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German performer and sculptor.

After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (today known as the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) in Karlsruhe. In 1959, the artist’s act out was honoured in the same way as two prizes, art prize of the city of Hanover and the Pankofer prize upon the occasion of the German Youth Art prize.

In his yet to be paintings, Antes sought a alleyway somewhere between symbolic painting and the L’Art Informel. One of his most important role models was Willem de Kooning. Around 1960 Antes discovered his ‘Kopffüßler’ (literal translation: Head-Footer), a form which inattentive the performer in numerous variations and artistic techniques. By 1963 his ‘Kopffüßler’ was thoroughly developed in its stylistic and contextual premises and became afterward compulsory for his sculptural work, which began the thesame year. The performer was answer several scholarships and awards in the 1960s, including the Villa-Romana-Prize in Florence in 1962 and the Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome in 1963. Three years later, aged unaided 29, Antes fashionable a teaching post at the Akademie in Karlsruhe. This was followed by a say as a professor as well as in Karlsruhe which he held from 1967 to 1973, as capably as a one-year guest-professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. The player resumed teaching at the Akademie in Karlsruhe in 1984 and continued teaching there for substitute 16 years. The regional capital awarded him the Hans-Molfenter-prize in 1989.

Since 1990 Antes has been busy and full of life in Karlsruhe, Florence and Berlin. His oeuvre includes not solitary paintings and graphic art, but in addition to sculptures in public spaces. His works are exhibited throughout the world and are represented in anything the most important German collections, et al. at the Kunsthall Hamburg, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art.