Julian Voss-Andreae (born 15 August 1970) is a German

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

living and working in the U.S.

Life

Voss-Andreae's full first name is Johann Julian, in honor of his ancestor, German pastor

Johann Valentin Andreae Johannes Valentinus Andreae (17 August 1586 – 27 June 1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the ''Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Ro ...

. According to an interview with the artist, Voss-Andreae attended a

Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as ...

school in Germany from grades 9 to 13. Voss-Andreae was born in

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(formerly West Germany) and started out as a painter. He later studied experimental physics at the universities of Berlin,

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and

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. 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 The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is an art school of Willamette University and is located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1909, the art school grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and graduate degrees including the Master of Fine ...

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 Scripps Research, previously known as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institu ...

in Jupiter, Florida portraying the human

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molecule, a sculpture for Nobel laureate

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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.Winners of the Prize for the Promotion of Interdisciplinarity in Crystallography
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References

External links

www.JulianVossAndreae.com
Home Page

with Ball's 'Nature' review and Q&A with Voss-Andreae (November 2009)
Oregon Art Beat: Quantum Sculptures with Julian Voss-Andreae
Oregon Public Broadcasting TV piece about Voss-Andreae's work (December 2008)
Protein Data Bank newsletter
Interview: ''Julian Voss-Andreae, Protein Sculptor'' (pp. 9–11, January 2007)
Seed Magazine
Interview: ''Seeing Below the Surface: Julian Voss-Andreae expands the molecules of life through sculpture.'' (May 2006)
Oregon Art Beat: Linus Pauling Statue
Oregon Public Broadcasting TV piece about Voss-Andreae's '' Alpha Helix for Linus Pauling'' (May 2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Voss-Andreae, Julian 1970 births Living people 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German male artists German male sculptors 21st-century German sculptors 21st-century German male artists Free University of Berlin alumni University of Vienna alumni Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Pacific Northwest College of Art alumni Artists from Portland, Oregon