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