Andreas Nottebohm

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Andreas Nottebohm
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Nottebohm sculpting in 2010
Born(1944-10-13)October 13, 1944
Nationality German / American
Education Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Known for Painting, Sculpture
Movement Op Art, Space Art

Andreas Nottebohm (born October 13, 1944) is an American / German artist who is considered the key innovator of Metal Art, [1] [2] [3] and associated with Op art, visionary art, and space art.

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Life

Born and raised in Eisenach, East Germany, he moved to Munich, West Germany, as a teenager. From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under surrealist painter Mac Zimmermann. In 1968, he studied etching at Johnny Friedlaender's workshop in Paris, France. From 1971 to 1974, he studied lithography in Salzburg, Austria. He returned to Munich in 1974. During the early 1970s, he first experimented with using metal as a canvas by utilizing used etching plates for his paintings. Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man exhibition in 1978. After traveling throughout the United States, he chose to make the San Francisco Bay Area his home.

Career

Andreas Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man show with Galerie Ernst Hilger [Vienna] at WASH-ART in Washington, D.C. in 1978. Starting in 1981, NASA commissioned Nottebohm to create major works, including official paintings to commemorate the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. [4] His work has been featured in museums and galleries around the world including the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum in California, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He has had over one hundred one-man shows in Europe and the United States.

Critical assessment

Selected museums and collections

Selected productions and credits

Current project

Nottebohm is currently in the process of completing a ten-year project with Pete Sears of Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna, and Moonalice, which combines twelve pure metal artworks with twelve "out-on-the-edge" pieces of experimental music. [16]

30-year retrospective

Nottebohm's first museum retrospective opened at the University of Arizona Art Museum, on May 28, 2011, and ran through September 2011. [10]

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