Curriculum Vitae

Horst Doll was born in Germany. He lives and works in Strathcona County, east of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

Horst owned and operated Ministik Pottery Studio from 1988 – 2006. While making pottery, Horst has also created sculptures in the last many years. Since 2007, he has been working as a sculptor exclusively. In his sculptural work Horst explores the human figure. He uses various techniques to sculpt the clay into torsos, heads, busts and masks. His sculptures are fired in his own kilns and are finished with either a hot or cold patina.

Each sculpture is a one-of-a kind, original work of art. Horst is currently exploring the possibility of having some of his sculptures cast in bronze and sold as part of an edition.

Horst is largely self-taught, but has attended numerous courses, workshops and seminars in Alberta. Since 1997, he travels to Europe regularly to study the visual arts and visits major museums, sculpture collections, and sculpture parks in western and southern Europe.

In 2006 Horst traveled for five weeks in France to study the history of sculpture from prehistoric to the present time. Among the many place he visited were Vezelay in Burgundy, the Meaght Foundation near Nice, Vaison la Romaine in Provence, Albi near Toulouse, Zadkine Museum in Les Arques, the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, Oleron-Ste-Marie in the Pyrenees, the Neolithic Stone Monuments in Brittany, the Chateaux in the Loire Valley and major museums and sculpture studios in Paris.

Horst is influenced by ancient figurative sculpture, which is often scarred and incomplete, and by sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth century.