Ottmar Hörl
Studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts) Frankfurt am Main and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Düsseldorf (Prof. Klaus Rinke). 1985 founding of the Formalhaut Group. 1992/93 visiting professor at the Technischen Universität Graz; 1994 Förderpreis für Baukunst (Special Award for Architecture) from the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin; 1997 "art multiple-Preis" (Art Multiple Award) of the Messe Düsseldorf and the Bundesverbandes Deutscher Kunstverleger (Düsseldorf Fair and the Federal Association of German Publishers); 1998 Darmstädter Kunstpreis (Darmstadt Art Award). Numerous individual and group shows in Germany and abroad as well as works in public and private collections and art in the public arena. 1999 to 2018 Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, from 2005 also its president. Lives in Wertheim.
