Maximilian Verhas, born in Essen in 1960, began his studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg after leaving school. He studied painting and graphic art under Prof. Clemens Fischer and Prof. Georg Karl Pfahler, and figurative sculpture under Prof. Christian Höpfner. In 1985 Verhas worked as a metal design engineer. In 1986 he took up his studies at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste in Berlin. In 1987 he began developing steel compositions and spent a period of study at the College of Art in Canterbury. A period of study in New York City followed, and in 1990 he completed his studies as a master student of Prof. David Evison, under whom he studied abstract steel sculpture.
Numerous solo and group exhibitions followed. His works are held in private and public collections in Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the United States of America. He lives and works in Berlin.
