Welcome sculpture by Ottmar Hörl - Garden gnome - Welcome

Artist: Ottmar Hörl
all colors with UV coating

Sponti, the Welcome gnome by German artist Ottmar Hörl, known for his serial works in public spaces.
Artist's signature HÖRL engraved on the base of the gnome.
Signed version for 155 euros in a limited edition of 500 copies per color.

The design

Ottmar Hörl, a multidisciplinary German artist, is internationally recognized for his avant-garde style and his boldness in undertaking colossal projects. Sculptures, serial sculpture installations, photographs, and conceptual objects: his goal is to offer a type of art accessible to everyone, notably by democratizing sculpture by exhibiting gigantic and radical projects in public spaces.
It is today his garden gnome Ben, presented in Cologne for the first time in 2005, that contributes to his great fame: his installations are exhibited regularly in European capitals.
Keen on the democratization of art, he uses simple materials like PVC. Highly involved in the world of Fine Arts, he was one of the founding members of the Nuremberg Academy in 1999, of which he became president in 2005.
He has been awarded numerous prizes for his great creativity and his radical and aggressive vision of promoting the democratization of sculpture.
He is also a founding member of the Fomalhaut group in 1985: a design, art, and architecture studio where he contributed to the design, in collaboration with architects, of impressive design pieces such as Living Room: a contemporary residence in the medieval center of Gelnhausen in Germany.