Andreas Kuhnlein

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Troika, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim 2017

Andreas Kuhnlein (born July 20, 1953 in Unterwössen im Chiemgau ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Andreas Kuhnlein has a very intimate relationship with his characters and what is to be represented with them in the exhibitions.

Kuhnlein grew up on a farm in his hometown Unterwössen. He completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and after his journeyman years went to the Federal Border Guard . The Federal Border Guard was deployed in the 1970s to fight terrorism and was confronted with the RAF , the Schleyer kidnapping and anti-nuclear demonstrations. Kuhnlein was also on patrol on the border with the GDR . In 1981 he retired from the police force, took over his aunt's farm and worked part-time in a carpenter's business. In this phase of his life he recognized art for himself. He has been a freelance sculptor since 1983. To date, he has had well over a hundred solo exhibitions and more than a hundred exhibition participations in 15 countries.

A sculpture from the trilogy "Im Fluss" on the visitor hill at Munich Airport .
Torso / Eiche, Glyptothek Munich 2016

Kuhnlein's work is created with the help of tools such as chainsaws, flame throwers or welding equipment. Kuhnlein's sculptures are particularly characterized by their jagged surfaces.

Sculpture King Heinrich I , which Andreas Kuhnlein built in 2006 in the Memleben monastery ruins .

In 2001 Kuhnlein took over the artistic design of the exhibition Otto the Great , Bavaria and Europe , the accompanying exhibition to the Council of Europe exhibition Otto the Great in Magdeburg. He made a total of 30 sculptures for it. As part of the supporting program of the 29th exhibition of the Council of Europe and Saxony-Anhalt State Exhibition 2006 Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , Kuhnlein erected sculptures at ten places of remembrance with which he portrayed historical personalities who are on the one hand as identifications of today's Saxony-Anhalt and on the other with the history of Holy Roman Empire connected. The focus of this art event was the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum , which has been home to Kuhnlein's version of the Magdeburg rider since 2003 . In 2003 he also made the sculpture group Liberation for the martyr altar in the Dresden Cathedral (Hofkirche). In addition, he was given the artistic support for the state exhibitions 200 years of Franconia in Bavaria in 2006 in Nuremberg and the departure for the Gothic in 2009 in Magdeburg. In 2007, Andreas Kuhnlein designed the prayer room in the Bendlerblock of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin.

Kuhnlein presented his works in the Munich Glyptothek in 2016 under the title Fissured Antiquity . 16 jagged wooden sculptures specially created for this purpose were juxtaposed with the ancient masterpieces.

Being human was the title of an extensive Kuhnlein show organized by the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim in 2017.

Exhibitions and projects

  • 2001 - "Otto the Great" exhibition in Magdeburg
  • 2011 - Exhibition "Säulenheilige", Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
  • 2013 - Exhibition “Traces of Being Human” in the Munich trade union building
  • 2017 - Exhibition “Oltre le montagne” Galleria Civica Valdagno, Italy
  • 2018 - Exhibition "Traces of Being Human" Museum St Johann in Tirol

Awards

  • Deutsche Telekom Art Prize, Munich / Ismaning (1998)
  • Art Prize of the Spa and Business Associations Bad Wörishofen (1999)
  • Professorship at the Luoyang Art Academy, China (2005)
  • Upper Bavarian Culture Prize (2009)
  • Ellinor Holland Art Prize (2010)

literature

  • Jochen Meister: Andreas Kuhnlein book . Potsdam 2003 ISBN 3-929748-31-2
  • Andreas Kuhnlein sculptures 1985-2015 Complete overview of the sculptural work of Andreas Kuhnlein. Sankt Ottilien 2015 ISBN 978-3-8306-7739-0

Web links

Commons : Andreas Kuhnlein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pm: Prayer room inaugurated in the Ministry of Defense in Berlin. In: welt.de . December 22, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/ministerium?yw_contentURL=/C1256F1200608B1B/W27A2FY9740INFODE/content.jsp
  3. ^ Ddp German dispatch service
    • Ellinor Holland Art Prize (2010)
    GmbH: Marianne Sägebrecht receives the 2009 Culture Prize , dated August 4, 2008, accessed on August 4, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Kuhnlein, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Underweave