Birth Place

Germany
1940

Residence

Sherwood Park, AB

Education

Horst is largely self taught, but has attended numerous courses, workshops and seminars in Alberta.  Since 1997, he has travelled to Europe regularly to study the visual arts and visit major museums, sculpture collections and sculpture parks in western and southern Europe.
In 2006 Horst travelled for five weeks in France to study the history of sculpture from prehistoric to the present time. Among the many places he visited were Vezelay in Burgundy, The Meaght Foundation near Nice, Vaison la Romaine in Provence, Albi near Toulose, Zadkine Museum in Les Arques, the prehistoric caves of Lascauz, Oleron-Ste-Marie in Pyrenees, The Neolithic Stone Monuments in Brittany, The Chateaux in the Loire Valley and major museums and sculpture studios in Paris.
Horst is influenced by ancient figurative sculpture, which is often scarred and incomplete, and by sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Biography

Horst owned and operated Ministik Pottery Studio from 1988-2006. While making pottery, Horst created sculptures.  Since 2007, he has been working as a sculptor exclusively.

Solo Exhibitions

Timeless Communicator, Discovery Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2006

Group Exhibitions

• M:19,Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB, 2007
• SAA Membership,Srathcona County Library, Sherwood Park, AB, 2006
• Myriad,Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, AB, 2006
• Diversity III,VAAA Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2006
• Membership Show,Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB, 2006
• All You Can Art,Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB, 2005
• Cultivated Chaos,Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, AB, 2005