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HANS-JOACHIM HORSTMANN

Lives and works in Erlangen, Germany
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Born in Gleiwitz /Upper Silesia, in 1929. Since 1945, he molecular biologists etc. My nude drawings shall not
has been living in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany. On 1948 arouse lust, because free art serves no purpose, but

beginning of studies in Biology, Chemistry and Geography concentrates on lines, colour play and per se, it creates
at the University of Erlangen /Nuremberg. In 1955 doctoral aesthetic pleasure. The object of my drawings is the ideal
degree as Dr. phil. nat.. In the following, he worked as a cum typical of both sexes in its almost endless variety
Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Biochemistry and variation in view and movement. The semblance
at the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen- detached from nature is beauty.

Nuremberg. After his retirement, he worked as a sculptor,
painter and graphic artist. He acquired his artistic and Some of my oil paintings are created in my workshop,
technical education in various special courses and by often I use my watercolored drawings as pre-drawings.

self-education. He made several study trips to Yugoslavia, Or I peruse my imagination inspired from a landscape
Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Switzerland. Since 1980. I really experienced, such as, for example, in "Siena"
his art work has been shown in a number of solo and and "Vernazza" shown above. I am like a bird hovering
group exhibitions of fine arts in Erlangen, Nuremberg, motionlessly over a location and looking down. I interpret
Jena, Munich, Leipzig, Bamberg, Homburg, Karlovac, characteristic structures and leave it to the viewer to

Budapest and Florence. In 2005, he was awarded a prize accompany me on my flight . . . I like to set squares 1 to
for sculpture at the Biennale Internazionale dell´Arte 1.5 cm sized color fields in various places on my picture
Contemporanea at Florence, Italy. towards the end of my painting process - using a broad

brush in one go. Their color is not totally determined by
The emphasis of my artistic proliferation is nude paintings. the locality, it rather represents my ambition for balance
ARTIST For me, there is no body on earth that is more beautiful and harmony. This way, a kind of net structure is laid over

my original picture which is determined by the motif and
and perfect than the nude human body - despite all
objections of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, links parts of it which I otherwise regard as disparate.

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