page_title: Ralf Sander
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Ralf Sander / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Denkmal Klaproth
context_page_description: Ralf Volker Sander is an international active sculptor. His best
  known works include Lady Bird Transformation, a public sculpture for Busan Cinema Center, South Korea, commissioned in 2011 and erected in August 2012. The memorial for Martin Heinrich Klaproth
  was erected on the campus of Technische Universität Berlin, 25 June 1996.
context_section_description: Born in West Berlin, Sander grew up in the British sector. He studied fine art and the history of art
  at Berlin University of the Arts, from 1986 to 1988. After the death of his Stepfather, Klaus Komoll,
  who left him a small sailing vessel, he was able to circumnavigate the world between 1988 and 1990 in order to
  study the tribal art of the pacific islands and Papua New Guinea. He completed his studies with
  a postgraduate course in sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts, between 1991 and 1994. He
  travelled to China and Japan with a DAAD grant to study Asian Art and philosophy between 1992 and 1994.
caption: Berlin, Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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