Carlernst Kürten

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Walkable fountains in Deweerth'schen Garten , Wuppertal

Carlernst Kürten (born April 17, 1921 in Waltrop , † December 29, 2000 in Unna ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Carlernst Kürten worked as a freelance sculptor since 1957 - after training as a sculptor and studying at the Werkkunstschulen Dortmund and Münster . From 1968 onwards, Kürten mainly designed works in chrome-nickel steel . At the same time, he created wood and bronze sculptures and wood prints . Large open-air sculptures and open space designs by Carlernst Kürten can be found in Bochum , Dortmund , Düren , Hagen , Hamm , Holzwickede , Kamen , Kiel , Kleve , Lüdenscheid , Mannheim , Opladen , Unna and Wuppertal ; Stainless steel sculptures also in museums and in private collections. Numerous solo exhibitions and participations in exhibitions at home and abroad are documented in catalogs.

In the last years of his life he also devoted himself to painting and graphics. A larger than life sculpture of Christ - wood, shot through, framed in black - has been in the field stone church of the Oderbruch village of Alt Mahlisch , in whose churchyard Carlernst Kürten is buried , since 1995 . In the spring of 2002 the city of Unna in Alte Heide founded the Carlernst-Kürten-Stiftung, named after its respected constructivist , which opened its ambitious exhibition program in June 2002 with the exhibition of sculptures and graphics by Carlernst Kürten .

literature

  • Volker Stephan, “Great exhibition for a silent artist”; in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, May 6, 2011 : A report on an exhibition by the Carlernst-Kürten Foundation.
  • Gerd Hergen Lübben , “DELIC BODIES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE WORKS OF THE SCULPTOR CARLERNST KÜRTEN [I | POSSIBILITY ROOM • OLD HEATH; II | DARE IT • APOLL'S BODY; III | OLD MAHLISCH • AT HOME.] ”In:“ RHEIN! Journal for Words, Pictures, Sound ”, No. 6 (Cologne 2013), p. 68 ff.
  • Susanne Buckesfeld, “Carlernst Kürten. Against the loneliness of the concrete sculpture . Interactive aspects of the stainless steel sculptures by Carlernst Kürten ”; in: Catalog I - KG Schmidt , Carlernst Kürten and companions , ed. as part of the project "Hellweg Konkret - A region in the focus of concrete art" , Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2014, ISBN 9783862064151 , pp. 90–98.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Art in public space in North Rhine-Westphalia" website shows Untitled (1979) , a constructivist-looking object by Carlernst Kürten , location: Hamm, Marker Allee 94. Cf. Thamer, Jutta: Skulpturenführer Hamm , Essen 2007, p. 76 .
  2. ↑ Jan Petersen // KUNST @ SH presents the sculpture by Carlernst Kürten, play with space and line (chrome-nickel steel, 1974) set up at the University of Kiel in various photos and writes about it: “In a precisely aligned form, wide ribbons twist out Metal that have been bent into loops. They are held in place by a stick in the middle. This turns flat, two-dimensional metal strips into a spatial work. "Accessed on January 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Carlernst Kürten. Work 1969 - 1984 ”; published by the Kunstverein Unna eV on behalf of the cultural office of the city of Unna; Unna 1984. Works and exhibitions up to 1984 are taken into account.
  4. ^ Westfälischer Künstlerbund Dortmund eV, "Carlernst Kürten"; oO, no year (= Dortmund 1991). - Works and exhibitions up to 1991 are taken into account.

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personal data
SURNAME Kürten, Carlernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltrop
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2000
Place of death Unna