Herms
Herms is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: *George Herms (born 1935), American artist * René Herms (1982-2009), German middle-distance runner *Herms Niel Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock (17 April 1888 – 16 July 1954),
''Munzinger'' Internationales Biographisches Ar ...

George Herms
George Herms (born 1935) is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces, about which he has said, "I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman and Edward Kienholz." Often called a member of the West Coast Beat movement, Herms said that Wallace Berman taught him that "any object, even a mundane cast-off, could be of great interest if co ...
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Herms Niel
Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock (17 April 1888 – 16 July 1954),
''Munzinger'' Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1954 vom 23., August 1954 known as Herms Niel, was a

German

composer

of military songs and marches.

Biography

Upon finishing school in 1902, Niel completed his apprenticeship with the

Genthin

choirmaster Adolf Büchner. In October 1906, he joined the

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René Herms
René Herms (17 July 1982 – 9 January 2009) was a German middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. Herms was born in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany. He won the silver medal in 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2000 World Junior Championships, became European junior champion in 2001 and finished seventh at the 2002 European Championships. He also competed at the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 as well as the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the finals. His personal best time was 1:44.14 minutes, achieved in August 2004 in Munich. He competed for the athletics clubs LSV Pirna and LG Braunschweig. He died in Lohmen Lohmen is a municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. History Lohmen was first officially recognized as a village in 1292. The village name comes from the Slovak term ''lom'' or "fissure". There were ..., Germany, aged 26. The reported cause of the death was a heart-related illness. Refer ...
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