Julian Voss-Andreae

Julian Voss-Andreae (born 15 August 1970) is a German sculptor living and working in the U.S.

Heart of Steel (Hemoglobin) (2005) by Julian Voss-Andreae. The images show the 5' (1.60 m) tall sculpture right after installation, after 10 days, and after several months of exposure to the elements.

Life

Voss-Andreae's full first name is Johann Julian, in honor of his ancestor, German pastor Johann Valentin Andreae. According to an interview with the artist, Voss-Andreae attended a Rudolf Steiner school in Germany from grades 9 to 13.^[1]

Voss-Andreae was born in Hamburg, Germany (formerly West Germany) and started out as a painter.^[2] 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.^[3] 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,^[4] such as Angel of the West (2008),^[1][5] 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,^[6] and the quantum physics-inspired Quantum Man (2006).^[7][8]

Recent work includes an exhibition at the American Center for Physics displaying a series of sculptures inspired by concepts from quantum physics.^[9]

In 2020 he was awarded the Waltrude-and-Friedrich-Liebau-prize for the Promotion of Interdisciplinarity in Crystallography by the German Crystallographic Society.^[10]

Gallery

• Various sculptures of Julian Voss-Andreae featuring proteins structure.
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  "Cycloviolacin" sculpture of Cycloviolacin
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  "Kalata" sculpture of Kalata B1
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  "Melittin" sculpture of Melittin
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  "Nanos" sculpture of Microcin J25
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  "Steel Fellyfish" sculpture of Green fluorescent protein
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  "Birth of an Idea" sulpture of KcsA potassium channel
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  "Unraveling Colllagen" sculpture of Colagen
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  Anton Zeilinger holding a sculpture by the artist Julian Voss-Andreae, a former graduate student in Zeilinger's lab
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  "Alpha Helix For Linus Pauling" sculpture of Alpha helix
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  "Angel of the West" symbolic sculpture of Antibody referring to Vitruvian Man