Preisträger
2003 // Christian Höpfner // Richard Scheibe
"While Hoepfner measure himself and based his standards on the teachers and colleagues of the Realistic Sculpture movement, he found indisputable worth in the authority of the human figure in sculpture and bestowed upon it timeless sovereignty and grandeur."
(Source: Dr. Bärbel Stephen, Award Ceremony Catalog jury member)
(Source: Dr. Bärbel Stephen, Award Ceremony Catalog jury member)
Life and Career
| 1939 | Born in Postal, Altmark |
| 1958 | Graduated from the Humanistic Grammar School in Berlin-Steglitz |
| 1958-64 | Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin; Master School of Richard Scheibe |
| 1963 | Georg Kolbe Award |
| 1964-69 | Laborer and freelance sculptor, Berlin |
| 1969 | Assisted Waldemar Grzimek at the Chair for Plastic Design in the Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt |
| 1972 | Dozent am Fachbereich Architektur der TH Darmstadt |
| 1977 | Appointed to the Chair of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (Herman Schorer's successor) |
Lives and works in Berlin and Nuremberg
- Exhibition and group participation since 1972 in Berlin, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Wiesbaden
- Member of the Darmstadt Secession
- Founding member and longtime board member of the "Künstlersonderbundes", Germany
- Member of the Berlin Shadow Society
- Member of the German Society for Medal Art (Medaillenkunst).
- Member of KF/KB Art Forum for Exchange, Künstlerhof Munich
- Member of the Schwabach Artists Union