Ben Muthofer German, 1937-2020

Muthofer was born in 1937 in the town of Oppeln (present-day Opole, Poland). He received his training in Erfurt from 1952 to 1953 and attended the Werkkunstschule Bielefeld in Bielefeld until 1958. He then studied sculpture at the Akademie für Bildenden Künste in Munich and was "Meisterschüler" with Ernst Geitlinger from 1962 to 1964. After establishing himself as an artist, he worked in the United States in 1968, including in the studios of Alexander Calder and Ernest Trova. From 1968 to 1975 he was a lecturer at the Washington University in St. Louis of St. Louis (Missouri). In 1982 he was awarded a stipend by the Prinz-Luitpold-Stiftung and in 1985 he was appointed professor at Reykjavik's Myndlista art school.

Muthofer returned to Germany in 1993 and has lived and worked in Munich and Ingolstadt since 1997. In 2008 and 2009 he donated 160 works of concrete art to the Kulturforum Ostdeutsche Kunst in Regensburg through the Ben Muthofer Stiftung.