Ottmar Hörl:
Sculpture "Karl Marx", version in purple
Ottmar Hörl:
Sculpture "Karl Marx", version in purple

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Made in Germany | limited edition, 195 copies | Hörl engraved | plastic | size 100 x 35 x 21 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 3.6 kg | weather-resistant

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Sculpture "Karl Marx", version in purple
Ottmar Hörl: Sculpture "Karl Marx", version in purple

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Sculpture "Karl Marx", version in purple

Installation project 2013 with 500 Karl Marx figures on the 195th birthday of Karl Marx on Porta-Nigra-Platz and Simeonstiftplatz Trier.

The sculptural project opens up a novel and outstanding way of meeting the man who was born in Trier and has come to be known the world over. Based on humour, subtlety, irony and great respect, a monument is erected to Karl Marx, to be visible in Trier for several weeks and permitting very personal access to this great 19th-century polymath.
The sculptural project motivates people to consider Karl Marx as a character as well as his oeuvre. To this very day, his portrait has been an icon of critical thought that is universally recognised as a symbol of protest and resistance.

Art object made of weatherproof, unbreakable and non-toxic plastic in rotational moulding process in Germany. All ingredients come from Germany and are subject to constant quality control. Version in purple. Limited edition 195 copies, unsigned. With embossing HÖRL. Size 100 x 35 x 21 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 3.6 kg.

Portrait of the artist Ottmar Hörl

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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