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Christine Habermann von Hoch (*September 3, 1980 in Dačice) is a Czech-German sculptor and metal designer. She is known for its monumental steel sculptures and subtle sculptures, which give iron the impression of fragility.

Life
She is the youngest daughter of the artistic blacksmith and sculptor Alfred Habermann (1930-2008), who is often called the "Pope of Blacksmiths". In 1985, the family moved to Germany, where her father continued to work. Therefore, she grew up in an environment where everything revolved around artistic blacksmithing. Pupils from all over the world visited the father's workshop, and due to his foreign projects, the family often traveled and moved. The teenage girl was particularly formatively influenced by a series of stays in Israel, where her father taught in a Kibbutz. His creative and teaching stays also took them to Italy, the USA and Japan. She learned all the basic techniques of metalworking and drawing from her father, and iron became her lifelong means of expression. At the same time, she was also interested in painting, architecture and art history, which led her to further study. After graduation, she went to a sculpture and carving school in South Tyrol. She complied with the wishes of her father, who did not want her to go to college after high school. Between 2001 and 2007, she studied fine arts and German philology at Palacky University Olomouc, with longer scholarships at the University of Florence, where she focused mainly on art history, at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Vienna. She later created the Ludvík Václavek Award for Palacky University entitled "Concentrated Knowledge" ("Geballtes Wissen", 2011). Already during her studies she taught blacksmithing techniques at Helfštýn Castle, in Ybbsitz in Lower Austria or at meetings of the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America (ABANA).

The acquired craft and intellectual background significantly shaped her work, in which traditional metal processing techniques intertwine with modern procedures and concepts. During her university studies, she developed a distinctive technique of forged paintings and experimented with combined techniques and conceptual creation (eg the Eisen - Pelz - Gold - Silber series). After graduating, she spent less than a year with her then-sick father in a forge in Ybbsitz, where Alfred Habermann spent the last years of his life. After his death, she created a tomb triptych of metal, glass and stone in the local cemetery. She then began to devote herself more intensively to sacral sculptures - the Cross of Butterflies in Enns, Upper Austria, is one of the most significant realizations in this area. To make her father's work accessible to the public, Christine Habermann von Hoch founded the Alfred Habermann Private Museum in Ybbsitz in 2008, where models, photographs of works and selected sculptures were on display. After 2018, it lent these exhibits to the town of Lipník nad Bečvou. Since 2017, he has lived in the Czech Republic, where he is fully dedicated to free creation and design in metal for interiors, gardens and public spaces. He has a daughter Stella (* 2015) and a son Felix Levi (* 2019).

Free artistic creation
Christine Habermann von Hoch's work includes large-format works as well as filigree pieces. Of the monumental works, the most famous is her steel nativity scene Adoration of the Magi for the Neustift monastery near Brixen in South Tyrol (2014). The statues reach a height of over 4m. Bethlehem impressed with its minimalist design.

The connection between subtility and matter is characteristic of smaller works that can be found in galleries and private collections in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. An example is levitating metal sculptures, which give the impression of drawing in space.

He often incorporates lighting into his works, often supplementing them with gold leaf, which serves to underline symbolism and spiritual dimension. Its means of expression are also translucency and play with shadows, which again contributes to the contrast between heavy metal and the elusive drawing of light and shadows.

Sculptures and installations in public space
In addition to the monumental nativity scene, her significant sculptural installations in the public space include a series of seating objects in the gap at the synagogue in Hranice na Moravě from 2019. The installation entitled "Nicocot - Fragments of Light" is inspired by Jewish symbolism and decorated with Hebrew script. The cut font serves as an ornamental and content element, due to the lighting inside the structures, selected Hebrew words (eg "shalom", "kavot", "ahava") act as fragments of light ("nicocot"), which refers to the Lurian Kabbalah. The six triangular seats together make up the Star of David.

Another realization is the Student Statue for the Silesian University in Opava (2019), which serves as a reminder of the events of November 17, 1989. The statue consists of six heart-shaped steel plates, which as a whole resemble the shape of a flower.

Habermann von Hoch also creates sculptural garden furniture and creates sculptures for gardens and parks.

Her creations (picked)

 * Adoration of the Magi, monumental nativity scene (4m) - Neustift near Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy
 * Portal with candles, the door of the church of St. Lawrence - Nuremberg, Germany
 * Butterfly Cross Tombstone - Enns, Austria
 * The backbone of light, collection of the Comenius Museum in Přerov
 * Lighting design, installation concept, railings and glass doors - Příbor
 * Otokar Fischer Award - Prague
 * Ludvík Václavek Award "Concentrated Knowledge" - Palacký University Olomouc
 * Sundial - Hollenstein an der Ybbs, Austria
 * Design of illuminated doors and gilded sculptures for wellness - Prague
 * Lighting fixtures in the cultural house Echo - Lipník nad Bečvou