Agatha Kill

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Agatha Kill (born April 19, 1948 in Bonn ) is a German sculptor , medalist and jewelry designer.

The piece MENE MENE TEKEL by Agatha Kill from 2001

Life

Agatha Kill was born in Bonn. From 1970 to 1977 she studied sculpture as well as precious metal and jewelry design at the Cologne Werkschulen / University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design with professors Hans Karl Burgeff and Marianne von Jármy. Since 1977 she has been working as a freelance artist in Cologne. From 1979 to 1980 she spent a year studying in Berlin.

Between 1980 and 1985, Kill stayed several times as an archaeological draftsman in Turkey , North Africa and southern Spain , which gave her artistic work a visible impetus. In 2006 the company moved from Cologne to the southern Palatinate .

She is a member of the German Society for Medal Art .

Act

Agatha Kill's medals have been selected for the German contribution to the world medal exhibitions (FIDEM) since 1992: 1992 in London, 1994 in Budapest, 1996 in Neuchatel, 1998 in The Hague, 2000 in Weimar, 2002 in Paris, 2004 in Seixal, 2007 in Colorado Springs, 2010 in Tampere, 2012 in Glasgow (a catalog was published for each exhibition). Several times, Kill was invited to the competitions of the Ministry of Finance to design a euro commemorative coin, some of which she successfully completed (see prizes).

The following works can be found among the orders from private individuals: 2001 Dr. Karl-Dieter Kortmann (medal); 2004 Gabriele Kortmann (iron bust); 2005 Dr. Jürgen Baur (medal); 2008 Dr. Walter Witzenmann (minted medal); 2011 Embossed medal for the Konrad Adenauer Competition of the Cologne Music School. In 2005/2006 Agatha Kill designed an embossed medal for Max Ernst .

The State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate has been honoring deserving parliamentarians with the Georg Forster Medal since 2015 , and Agatha Kill designed this honorary medal.

In March 2017, Agatha Kill was one of the nominees for the Otto Ditscher Prize for book illustration, another facet of your work.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1978 Schmuck, Galerie Map, Cologne
  • 1982 Arteder 82, Bilbao
  • 1983 jewelry and drawings, solo exhibition BBK, Cologne
  • 1985 jewelry, Galerie Ventil, Munich
  • 1991 Friedrich von Spee Medal, Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf and Museum Kaiserswerth
  • 1992 Contemporary medal art in Germany, Dresden art collections, Münzkabinett
  • 1992 female medalists in Germany, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle / S., 1993 Frauen Museum Bonn
  • 1994 KölnGold, Museum for Applied Art, Cologne
  • 1994 The contemporary art medal in Germany, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  • 1994 Art / Craft / Design, Municipal Gallery, Peschkenhaus Moers
  • 1995/96 Take pleasure in all of them, European medal art from the Renaissance to the present day, Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prussian cultural heritage; Science Center Bonn; Schlossmuseum, Schloss Friedenstein Gotha; Germanic National Museum Nuremberg
  • 1997 Traces, Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf
  • 2000 10 years of German Unity, Saxon Porcelain Manufactory Dresden
  • 2001 Rheinische Schule I, Mint Center Rhineland, Solingen
  • 2001 At my honor, Forum for Jewelry and Design, Cologne
  • 2001 The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany, Bonn Science Center and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Münzkabinett, Berlin
  • 2002 Rheinische Schule II, Mint Center Rhineland, Solingen
  • 2002 Dr. Konrad Adenauer Medal, Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
  • 2003 Gold from Cologne for the cultural heritage Quedlinburg, solo exhibition Geldgeschichtliches Museum, Kreissparkasse Cologne
  • 2005 GeldKunst - KunstGeld, Museum Minden, State Mint Berlin
  • 2006 Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster and Cappenberg Castle
  • 2006 Rhenish medal art , Kunsthaus Lempertz , Cologne
  • 2007 Die Welt "en miniature", German medal art today, Moritzburg Foundation, Halle / S .; City Museum Erfurt
  • 2007 Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century, Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • 2009 Ceramics in small format, Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf
  • 2014 Agatha Kill - drawings, Keysermühle Abbey in Klingenmünster, Southern Palatinate
  • 2015 “Creatures”, Bendorf-Sayn Iron Art Museum
  • 2015 “I gave gold for iron”, Münzkabinett d. State Museums of Berlin, Bode Museum
  • 2016 FIDEM (World Medal Exhibition), Namur and Gent , Belgium
  • 2016 Sculpture in public places, Minfeld, Southern Palatinate
  • 2017 Selected 6 best-placed works for the OTTO - DITSCHER - PRICE 2017, book illustration
  • 2018 “Portraits of Smart Women” in sculpture, painting, drawing, medal; Humboldt University of Berlin

Prices

Publicly owned work

literature

  • Thomas Hirsch, Agatha Kill: Working 1974 - 2009 Agatha Kill. 2010 ISBN 978-300-032434-5 .
  • Gold from Cologne for the Quedlinburg cultural heritage , Geldgeschichtliches Museum, Cologne 2003.
  • The contemporary art medal in Germany. German Society for Medal Art .
    • Volume 1, 1992: The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany 1988–1991.
    • Volume 2, 1994: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): The contemporary art medal in Germany 1991–1993.
    • Volume 4, 1996: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): The Art Medal in Germany 1993-1995, with additions since 1988. ISBN 3-7861-1926-0
    • Volume 10, 1999: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998. ISBN 3-7861-2329-2
    • Volume 11, 2000: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): Arche 2000. ISBN 3-7861-2367-5
    • Volume 14, 2000: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany. ISBN 3-88609-443-X and ISBN 3-7861-2387-X .
    • Volume 22, 2005: Gerd Dethlefs and Wolfgang Steguweit (editors): GeldKunst - KunstGeld. ISBN 3-9801644-7-0
    • Volume 23, 2007: Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (editor): Die Welt en miniature, German medal art today. 2000-2006. ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2
    • Volume 24, 2007: Wolfgang Steguweit (editor): Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century. ISBN 978-3-7861-2568-6
    • Bernd Kluge and Bernhard Weisser (editors): I gave gold for iron. (= Das Kabinett . Series of publications by the Münzkabinett der Staatliche Museen Berlin, Volume 14), Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88609-748-7 .
  • Catalog for Arteder 82. Muestra International de Arte Grafico, Bilbao
  • Cast Art catalogs - contemporary cast art. Düsseldorf (1989, 1994, 2003)
  • Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection.
    • 28th year, new series, 2/91; KP Wiemer
    • 34th year, new series, 2/97; KP Wiemer
    • 38th volume, new series, 2/01; Helmut Fußbroich
    • 40th year, new series, 2/03; Martin Heidemann
  • Eva Wipplinger (catalog): Medal artists in Germany. Creativity in the past and present. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle and Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-86105-066-8 .
  • Gerhard Dietrich "Kölngold" (catalog), Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-87909-366-0 .
  • European medal art from the Renaissance to the present day. Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.). Münzkabinett, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88609-379-4 .
  • Karl Schein (essay) 1996 “Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld”. Association for Christian Art in the Archdiocese of Cologne and Diocese of Aachen eV
  • Karl Schein and Dominik Meiering (book), 2003, "Heaven on Earth", commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the Association for Christian Art in the Archdiocese of Cologne and Diocese of Aachen eV, ISBN 3-87909-809-3 .
  • Thomas Lautz, “Gold from Cologne for the Quedlinburg cultural heritage”, in “Das Fenster”, Kreissparkasse Cologne, topic 164, Nov. 2003.
  • Ludger Wolfgart, "Iron and Steel in Motion", Stahlreport 1/2005, Bundesverband Deutscher Stahlhandel, Düsseldorf
  • Martin Heidemann, “Coins in Context. Works by Maria Lucia Hardegen and Agatha Kill "in" The Medal, 46/2005, British Art Medal Trust, London "
  • Hermann Maué, 2005, Gazette of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, annual report 2004.
  • Catalog “The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany”, 2011, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • Philip Attwood, in "The Medal, 53/2008, British Art Medal Trust, London"
  • NN Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten (GIG), No. 264, Nov. 2012
  • The Medal, Autumn 2014
  • Philip Attwood; in “The Medal; 69/2016, British Art Medal Trust, London "
  • Humboldt University of Berlin. Portraits of KLUGEr WOMEN in sculpture, painting. Drawing, medal. 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Kill, Agatha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn