Ottmar Hörl

Ottmar Hörl is a German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography, and object artist.

He has achieved worldwide popularity due to his radical art concepts as well as large-scale projects featuring incredible sculptures in public spaces. 

He is considered as an "offensive and direct strategist campaigning for a new type of public art”.

He has been most successful in implementing his vision of art for everyone and promoting the democratisation of sculpture-like no other so far.

He has contributed a range of important pieces to the overwhelming field of fine arts of which have earned him several awards.

Since 1999, Hörl has held a chair as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and has been the Academy's president since 2005.

Ottmar Hörl lives and works in Wertheim, Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg.