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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Julian Voss-Andreae
- Julian Voss-Andreae (born 15 August 1970) is a German sculptor living and working in the U.S. Voss-Andreae is a descendant of the German pastor Johann Valentin Andreae, author of one of the earliest texts of Rosicrucianism, The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz (1616).
- His full first name is Johann Julian, in honor of his ancestor.
- According to an interview with the artist by Jonathan Schorsch, Voss-Andreae attended a Rudolf Steiner school in Germany from grades 9 to 13.Voss-Andreae was born in Hamburg, West Germany and started out as a painter.
- He later studied experimental physics at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna.
- 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 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 in Jupiter, Florida portraying the human antibody molecule, a sculpture for Nobel laureate Roderick MacKinnon 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.
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