HA Schult
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HA Schult
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June 24, 1939 Parchim, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | object and performance art |
HA Schult, born Hans-Jürgen Schult on June 24, 1939 in Parchim, Mecklenburg is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. His best known works include the touring work, Trash People, which exhibited on all continents, and the Save The Beach hotel, a building made of garbage.
HA Schult studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1958 to 1961, where he was a student of Georg Meistermann, Joseph Fassbender and Karl Otto Götz. Other students of the academy at the time included Gotthard Graubner, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. At that time, he was mainly inspired by three artists: Yves Klein, Georges Mathieu and Jackson Pollock.
From 1962 to 1967 he worked as an art director for a German bank and some industrial companies. From 1967 to 1978 he lived as an artist in Munich and has also performed a range of diversified jobs over time, including a spell as a taxi driver. During the late 1970s Schult lived in Cologne and from 1980 to 1986 chiefly in New York City,. However, Schult had problems establishing a reputation as an artist in the USA, which he attributed to his criticism of America's consumption-driven mentality. He moved back to Germany in 1986. Schult has been situated in Cologne since 1990.
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