Jan Voss

Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1936. He studied at the Art Academy in Munich, Germany, between 1956 and 1960. After a career in teaching, where he was a guest professor at Hamburg Art Academy, Germany, he became a professor at the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1987 and 1992. His works were exhibited at the Kunsthalle in Kiel in 1997 and at the Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach, in 2002. That same year he exhibited individually at Art Cologne to great critical acclaim and which achieved enormous success within the German artistic community. and later international. Voss's work reflects an eternal search for order, in the creation of order itself, as opposed to a perpetual, chaotic and complex movement that involves our entire existence. Voss experiments with several different techniques and materials in his work; His works can convey enormous tranquility or be powerfully vibrant with saturated colors. What all of his works have in common is: the accumulation of colors that intersect and are interconnected by lines, drawings and fragments of drawings. From the 1980s onwards, Jan Voss also applied this formal language to three-dimensional objects. Living in Paris since 1960, the year he joined the important KWY Group formed by the Portuguese Lourdes Castro, René Bertholo, António Costa Pinheiro, João Vieira, José Escada and Gonçalo Duarte and the Bulgarian Christo, Jan Voss is He is one of the most prominent and recognized German artists today. He has held exhibitions in the most important contemporary art museums and is currently developing his career. represented at MoMa - Museum of Modern Art in New York; at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris; at the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; at the Sprengel Museeum, Hannover and the Toyama Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

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