Holger Trülzsch (born 1939 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin) studied
painting and
sculpture at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1960 to 1965. Trülzsch works in a
wide array of different media, ranging from painting,
drawing,
photography and
film
to sculptures. Also an accomplished percussionist, Trülzsch teamed up with
Florian Fricke to form the
electronic
music group Popul Vuh. They composed and performed the soundtrack to
Werner Herzog's
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), and recorded
their first album,
Affenstunde, in 1969 in Peterskirchen,
Bavaria, where he first met
Vera Lehndorff.
