Mathias klotz biography
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Matthias Klotz, the Klotz violin and its forefathers: a family tradition poised between mastery and brand recognition
Matthias Klotz provides the finishing touch: with the experienced eye of a mästare, the Mittenwald violin maker picks up the blade to complete a new violin. His work fryst vatten astoundingly delicate, given his large physique and powerful hands. The Matthias Klotz statue in Mittenwald has had him frozen in this position since the autumn of 1890, and the famed iron caster Ferdinand II Freiherr von Miller rendered him with almost startling accuracy in detail – and fryst vatten said to have considered this del av helhet his best work. “We don't want a emblem — we want to see the man himself,” as the members of the Mittenwald violin-making association told von Miller. The memorial they commissed fryst vatten the perfect portrait of a craftsman, an artist of whom there are no photographs. The statue draws the observer into a dialogue with multiple parties: with the internationally active merchant Neuner
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Mathias Klotz
Chilean architect (born 1965)
Not to be confused with Matthias Klotz.
Mathias Klotz Germain (born 13 April 1965)[1] is a Chilean architect born and raised in Santiago, Chile. His work spans for over 30 years. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he graduated in 1991. Winner of the Borromini Prize of Architecture in 2001[2] for under-40 architects.
Klotz together with Alejandro Aravena are among the most renowned Chilean architects of the early 21st century. His work, elegant and rooted in the Modernist tradition, has put him on the international spotlight.
Klotz is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, and is a visiting professor in multiple universities in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Germany. His first commission, titled "Casa Klotz", was completed in 1991 for his mother. The two-storey wooden house is located besi
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This is the first Italian monograph devoted to one of the emerging figures in contemporary architecture, the Chilean Mathias Klotz.
[Mathias Klotz /Works and Projects] Through a reading of the landscape and the topographical structure, Mathias Klotz implements his architectural programme with plastic sensitivity, confirming the importance of the construction and the materials. After completing his studies at the Catholic University of Santiago in Chile, in 1991, Mathias Klotz (born in Santiago, in 1965) embarked on a brilliant career that has brought him to the attention of international critics who regard him as one of the best architects of the younger generations. His reference models range from those of Mies van der Rohe and of those architects active in California after World War II. The Ponce house in Buenos Aires is one of the best expressions of his talent, which shows his skill as an architect who is coherent in his choice of materials, confident in employing them and over