Sculpture "Frog Prince", silver-plated version
Sculpture "Frog Prince", silver-plated version
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | signed | cast metal silver-plated | size 13 x 11 x 14 cm (w/h/d) | weight approx. 1.95 kg
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Sculpture "Frog Prince", silver-plated version
The aesthetics of everyday culture and the standardisation and norming of objects of daily use - these are Ottmar Hörl's major themes. Hörl became known for setting up entire armies of sculptures of, for example, rabbits, Martin Luther or Karl Marx. For the 100th anniversary of the artist colony, Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, Germany, Ottmar Hörl transformed the Grimm's fairy tale of the Frog Prince into an art project and installed 800 frogs and 5 steel balls in the Art Nouveau fountain for 100 days.
Following his art projects, Hörl's plastic multiples are already sought-after collector's items. As an ars mundi Exclusive Edition, we have now produced a signed special edition of 980 copies each, made of either gold-plated (24-carat) or fine silver-plated cast metal. Size 13 x 11 x 14 cm (w/h/d). Weight approx. 1.95 kg. Frog Prince version cast metal silver-plated.
About Ottmar Hörl
Ottmar Hörl (born 1950) is one of the most important contemporary German artists.
His sculptural work deals with the theme of standardisation and the equalisation of everyday objects that surround us in so many ways in our lives. But he does it in an extremely humorous way, and his "exhibitions" resemble magnificent spectacles when, for example, he "carries" a giant swarm of owls to Athens, sets up hundreds of bears in front of the Brandenburg Gate or displays 1,000 meerkats on a "staff outing" - all made of brightly coloured plastic.
"Concentrated in a square or distributed in the urban space, my installations become visual as well as tangible obstacles. They are meant to trigger reflection, a moment of pause."
His most famous action was dedicated to the artist Dürer and his world-famous watercolour of a hare. In 2003, no more and no less than 7,000 rabbits filled the main market square in Nuremberg for the "Great Rabbit Piece".
From 1975 to 1979 Ottmar Hörl studied at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1981 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Klaus Rinke. In 1985 he founded the group "Formalhaut" with the architects Gabriela Seifert and Götz G. Stöckmann. In the early 1990s, Hörl was a visiting professor at the Graz University of Technology. Since 1999 he has held a professorship for fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, and between October 2005 and October 2017 he was president of the academy.
Through his works, Hörl is engaged with the aesthetics of everyday culture. He defines the term as an "organisational principle" and detects this principle in his environment, in which many objects of daily use are standardised and normed.
His works can be found in many national and international collections. Ottmar Hörl lives and works in Nuremberg and Wertheim.
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Term for an art object (sculpture, installation), which is produced in multiple copies in a limited and numbered edition according to the artist‘s will.
Artist's multiples have been called the most accessible and affordable art on the market.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.