Julian Voss-Andreae

Voss-Andreae's full first name is Johann Julian, in honor of his ancestor, German pastor Johann Valentin Andreae. According to an interview with the artist, Voss-Andreae attended a Rudolf Steiner school in Germany from grades 9 to 13. Voss-Andreae was born in Hamburg, Germany (formerly West Germany) and started out as a painter. He later studied experimental physics at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna. Voss-Andreae pursued his graduate research in quantum physics in Anton Zeilinger's research group, participating in an experiment demonstrating quantum behavior for the largest objects to date. He moved to the U.S. in 2000 and graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004. Voss-Andreae's work is heavily influenced by his background in science. His work includes protein sculptures, such as Angel of the West (2008), a large-scale outdoor sculpture for the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida portraying the human antibody molecule, a sculpture for Nobel laureate Roderick MacKinnon based on the ion channel structure, and the quantum physics-inspired Quantum Man (2006). Recent work includes an exhibition at the American Center for Physics displaying a series of sculptures inspired by concepts from quantum physics. In 2020 he was awarded the Waltrude-and-Friedrich-Liebau-prize for the Promotion of Interdisciplinarity in Crystallography by the German Crystallographic Society.

• Illustration — Cycloviolacin, sculpture of cycloviolacin • Illustration — Kalata, sculpture of the cyclotide kalata B1 • Illustration — Melittin, sculpture of melittin • Illustration — Nanos, sculpture of microcin J25 • Illustration — Steel Jellyfish, sculpture of green fluorescent protein • Illustration — Birth of an Idea, sculpture of KcsA potassium channel • Illustration — Unraveling Collagen, sculpture of collagen • Illustration — Buckyballs, sculpture of buckyballs (held by Anton Zeilinger) • Illustration — Alpha Helix For Linus Pauling, sculpture of an alpha helix • Illustration — Angel of the West, symbolic sculpture of an antibody referring to Vitruvian Man