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Ansgar Nierhoff (Meschede, october 1 1941 – august 2 2010) was a German sculptor.

Life and work

Ansgar Nierhoff entered a study to become a mason in 1960 and completed this study in 1964 with the Gesellenbrief in Frankenberg (Eder). From 1964 tot 1969 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Among his teachers were Joseph Faßbender en Eduard Trier. In 1965 he moved to Cologne.

Nierhoff took part in documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977. In 1983 he had worked for a periode in the art studio of the American artist George Rickey in New York. In 1986 Ansgar Nierhoff became a visiting professor at the Gesamthochschule Kassel. From 1988 to 2008 he was a professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universiteit in Mainz.

Ansgar Nierhoff lived and worked in Cologne until his death in 2010.

Expositions

1969 Neue Galerie, Collectie Ludwig at Aken
1971 Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne and Museum Ulm, Ulm
1971 Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
1977 documenta 6 at Kassel
1983 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Slot Charlottenburg at Berlin
1985 Kölner Festungsmuseum/Skulpturenpark Skulptur am Fort, Keulen
1989 Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK, Wenen en Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne
1997 Museum Folkwang at Essen
1998 LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn at Bonn
2002 Galerie Ruth Leuchter
2003 Lehmbruck-Museum at Duisburg
2006 Neues Museum at Weimar

Works (selection)

Netz (1971), Frauentorgraben in Neurenberg
Tor (1979), Fehrenbachallee in Freiburg im Breisgau
Die Bastion (1980/81), Staatsbibliothek Potsdamerstraße in Berlin
Stahlskulptur (1982), voormalig Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund
Kunst (1984), Bilfinger und Berger in Wiesbaden
Skulptur am Fort (1985) in Keulen-Rodenkirchen
Skulptur (1985/86), buitencollectie Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl
Cielo e terra (1986), Salzgittersee in Salzgitter-Lebenstadt
Eine enorme Anstrennung - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Streckungen (1987), Beeldenpark van het Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg
Zwei gestreckt (1987) in Keulen-Chorweiler
Paarweise (1988), Skulpturenensemble Moltkeplatz Essen in Essen
Ein leichtes Spiel (1991), Salzmarkt in Essen
Lichtung zu Einem (1992), Andreaskloster in Keulen
Verdichtes Kreuz (1992), Neu-Isenburg
Ausgleich nach dem Bildersturm (1993), Bonner Münster in Bonn
Zwei Kompositstreckungen berühren die Tangente an einen bodenbündigen Eisenkreis (1993), Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in Essen
Zentren mit Streckungen und Kernen (1995), Lavesallee in Hannover
Blöcke und Gruben, Vahrenwalder Straße in Hannover
Kölner Streckungen (1997), Gothaer Kunstforum in Keulen
Kein leichtes Spiel (2000), Waldskulpturenweg - Wittgenstein - Sauerland, Rothaarsteig
Licht-Spiel (2002), Schloss Waldthausen between Mainz and Budenheim
Rotation (2003), LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn in Bonn
... die Liebe (2003), Sculpture park van het Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg
Das Mal (2010), memorial sign of concentration camp Ladelund on the Danish border in North-Friesland (posthumously unveiled on November 14, 2010)