Horst Antes
Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor.
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Horst Antes
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- Name
- Horst Antes
- Born
- 28 October 1936
- Birthplace
- Heppenheim
- Education
- Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe
- Known for
- Painting, sculpture, graphic art
- Movement
- Neue Figuration
- Spouse
- Dorothée Großmann
- Awards
- Art Prize of the City of Hanover (1959) Villa Romana Prize (1962) Villa Massimo scholarship (1963) Hans Molfenter Prize (1989) Grand Prize of the São Paulo Biennial (1991) Hessian Cultural Prize (1991)
- Nationality
- Germany.
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Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor.
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Key facts
• Name — Horst Antes • Born — 28 October 1936 • Birthplace — Heppenheim • Education — Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe • Known for — Painting, sculpture, graphic art • Style — New Figuration, figurative expressionism • Movement — Neue Figuration • Spouse — Dorothée Großmann • Awards — Art Prize of the City of Hanover (1959) Villa Romana Prize (1962) Villa Massimo scholarship (1963) Hans Molfenter Prize (1989) Grand Prize of the São Paulo Biennial (1991) Hessian Cultural Prize (1991) • Illustration — Horst Antes Kopffüßler in Hannover • Illustration — Antes Horst,1968, Municipal Gallery, Sindelfingen, Germany
Early life and education
Early life and education
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 work was honoured with two prizes, art prize of the city of Hanover and the Pankofer prize on the occasion of the German Youth Art prize.
Career
Career
In his early paintings, Antes sought a path somewhere between figurative 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 preoccupied the artist in numerous variations and artistic techniques. By 1963 his 'Kopffüßler' was fully developed in its stylistic and contextual premises and became also compulsory for his sculptural work, which began the same year. The artist was given 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 only 29, Antes accepted a teaching post at the Akademie in Karlsruhe. This was followed by a post as a professor also in Karlsruhe which he held from 1967 to 1973, as well as a one-year guest-professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. The artist resumed teaching at the Akademie in Karlsruhe in 1984 and continued teaching there for another 16 years. The regional capital awarded him the Hans-Molfenter-prize in 1989. Since 1990, Antes has been living and working in Karlsruhe, Florence and Berlin. His oeuvre includes not only paintings and graphic art, but also sculptures in public spaces. His works are exhibited throughout the world and are represented in all 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.
Identity
Identity
Horst Antes is recorded as Germany.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1936–1997
The full dated record · 8 entries
1936
Horst Antes born at Heppenheim.
1969
Figur 1. September is dated 1969.
1976
Head with 12 eyes is dated 1976.
1977
Kopffüßler is dated 1977.
1979
Large Head I is dated 1979.
1981
Head in Hand is dated 1981.
1987
Antes Fountain is dated 1987.
1997
figure of a human body in profile is dated 1997.
Recognition and collections
Where the work is held
Recognition and collections
Horst Antes received Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Villa Romana Prize, Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo, Hans Molfenter Award and Hessian Cultural Prize.
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Documents and archives
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q446519: Horst Antes
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reference work
- “Horst Antes”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Horst Antes: Die Liebe zur Urform. Zeit Online.
- 2.Vorstände des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit 1951.
- 3.Das Atelierhaus Horst Antes in der Karlsruher Datenbank der Kulturdenkmale. (abgerufen am 19. April 2016).
- 4.Ausstellung im Martin-Gropius-Bau: Horst Antes – mehr als der berühmte "Kopffüßler". Zeit Campus. 2013-06-13.
- 5.Horst Antes: Dada aus Afrika. 2016-08-27.
- 6.Valerio Gerstlauer. Wie Horst Antes um das Thema Mensch kreist. Davoser Zeitung. 2019-02-22.
- 7.Adrienne Braun: Würth: Horst Antes zum 85. Geburtstag. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung vom 28. Oktober 2021
- 8.Day Sale 6. Dezember 2025.
- 9.Ausstellungskatalog Prisma '70, 18. Jahresausstellung des DKB in Bonn: Abb. 8 (Horst Antes: Graue Figur im Kasten, S. 13)
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Citations
References
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