KunstenaarSwedish (German-born)
Alexius Huber
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Alexius Huber was born on 22 December 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany. He trained as a designer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim between 1960 and 1964, an institution shaped by the Bauhaus tradition of dissolving the boundary between craft and fine art. That formative encounter with the Bauhaus ethos — geometry, materials science, functional beauty — would run through every phase of his work.
In 1964 Huber moved to Sweden, settling first in Gothenburg before eventually moving to Malmö and later to Ljunghusen on the Falsterbo peninsula in Skåne. The move proved permanent: Sweden became his home and Skåne the landscape against which he developed a practice built almost entirely around polished metal. During the 1960s he refined a sculptural technique in which flat sheets of acid-resistant stainless steel are cut, ground, and polished in multiple stages, breaking up the surface so that reflected light becomes the primary pictorial element. He described this light-play as his paint, the steel sheet as his canvas.
The works Huber calls "Optiska koncept" (Optical concepts) lie at the heart of his output. These reliefs — convex, concave, flat planes arranged in tight geometric progressions — shift appearance as the viewer moves or as daylight changes. What looks static from one angle dissolves into depth from another. The effect is disciplined and precise, without the expressionist looseness that characterized much Scandinavian sculpture of the same period. His first solo exhibition was held at the Kunstverein in Pforzheim in 1967, while he was still finding his footing in Sweden.
Huber's public commissions brought his work out of the gallery and into Swedish daily life. In 1984 he installed a mobile in the civic hall in Arlöv (Burlöv municipality) that still hangs there today, recently marking its 40th anniversary. In 1988 he completed two large works in Malmö: a stainless steel ventilation tower for HSB Södertorp and a nine-meter mobile for Bygghälsan. For Lund's 1,000-year jubilee in 1990, he erected a 12.5-meter sculpture combining acid-resistant stainless steel and black granite, inaugurated by the County Governor and municipal representatives. A six-meter steel sculpture titled "Begynnelse" was installed in Eslöv in 1996, sponsored by Sparbanken Öresund. Recent gallery exhibitions include shows at Falsterbo Konsthall (2014) and Galleri MOMENT in Ängelholm (2013).
On the Nordic secondary market, Huber's 27 auction lots are distributed across smaller regional houses — Björnssons Auktionskammare, Crafoord Auktioner in Lund, Markus Auktioner, and Ekenbergs among them. The bulk of his catalogued items fall under the broad category of miscellaneous or applied art rather than fine art proper, reflecting the decorative character of his smaller edition pieces in stainless steel and plexiglass. Prices have been contained, with reliefs from the "Optiska koncept" series selling in the 200–1,100 SEK range and a larger aluminium sculpture reaching 300 EUR. His work trades modestly in the auction room, but his public commissions across southern Sweden represent a more enduring presence in the landscape.