worth seeing

art in public space

Jurgen Waxweiler

JURGEN WAXWEILER

  • 1962 born in Wittlich/Eifel
  • 1982 high school diploma
  • 1988-90 studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Hubertus von Pilgrim
  • 1990-93 studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Prof. Helmut Heinze, graduating with a diploma in sculpture
  • 1993 Start of freelance work in Traben-Trarbach on the Moselle

grants

  • 1990 Fanny Carlita Foundation Munich
  • German-German exchange scholarship, funded by the DAAD

art awards

  • 1998 Limes Art Prize
  • 2000 cultural advancement award of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich
  • 2001 art prize of the district of Trier-Saarburg
  • sculpture symposia
  • 1999 Senheim, 2000 Ostritz/Saxony, 2001 Konz/Mosel, 2002 Winnipeg/Canada and Wittlich, 2003 Winnipeg/Canada, 2004 Comblain au Pont, Belgium

exhibitions (Abstract)

  • 1999 Large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich; "C-comme changement", Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
  • 2000 Art Gallery Armand Gaasch, Dudelange/Luxembourg; University of Goettingen
  • 2001 German Parliamentary Society, Berlin
  • 2002 "From Outside to Inside", Georg Meistermann Museum, Wittlich; "Lapidarium I", Palais Walderdorff Gallery, Trier; Art Frankfurt Gallery Tammen & Busch, Berlin; "Heads and Portraits", Schrade Gallery, Mochental Castle; Gallery Plan, Dusseldorf
  • 2004 Gallery Contemporanea, Oberbillig near Trier, State Horticultural Show Trier

art in public space

  • 1999 "I see", Sculpture Park Senheim
  • 2000 Memorial Wittlich
  • 2001 Koblenz memorial, "Big Pointer", waves
  • 2002 "Big Head", Wittlich, - "Beautiful Views"
  • A nice compilation of his works can be found in its web presence .