Diether Kunerth

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Diether Kunerth (born August 10, 1940 in Freiwaldau ) is a German visual artist from Ottobeuren in Unterallgäu.

Life

Diether Kunerth was born in Freiwaldau in the Reichsgau Sudetenland in 1940 . He studied from 1960 to 1967 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student of Prof. Heinrich Kirchner . He turned his back on the big city early on to work in Ottobeuren. A diverse and extensive work was created without the specifications of urban art establishments. Convinced of his importance as an artist, the market town of Ottobeuren, with funding from the Free State of Bavaria and the EU , built the Museum of Contemporary Art - Diether Kunerth for 4.7 million euros, which opened on May 24, 2014. In the speech at the opening of the museum, the President of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Dieter Rehm , described his friend as the “genius of the place” and the “genius of the Allgäu”.

Exhibitions (selection)

Diether Kunerth's "wooden head" in Erkheim

Solo exhibitions

  • Gurlitt Gallery, Munich (1964, 1967)
  • State Museum Detmold (1977)
  • Dobler Hau, Kaufbeuren (1977)
  • Schaezler Palais, Augsburg (1978)
  • Lüpfert Gallery, Hanover (1978, 1986)
  • Municipal Gallery, Paderborn (1980, 1981)
  • Municipal Gallery, Stade (1981)
  • Braunbehrens Gallery, Munich (1985)
  • Neuendorf Gallery, Memmingen (1986-2004)
  • Brechthaus, Augsburg (1986)
  • Gallery in Finkenstrasse, Munich (1987)
  • Municipal Gallery, Bielefeld (1987)
  • University, Bielefeld (1989)
  • made gallery, Thannhausen (1990)
  • Tabula Gallery, Tübingen (1990)
  • Municipal Gallery, Leutkirch (1990)
  • EP gallery, Düsseldorf (1991, 1995–1997)
  • Kreuzherrnsaal, Memmingen (1992)
  • House of the Guest, Bad Grönenbach (1993, 1997)
  • Kornhaus, Kirchheim / Teck (1994)
  • Paris House, Memmingen (1994)
  • Theater foyer, Memmingen (1995)
  • Johanniterhalle, Schwäbisch Hall (1997)
  • Elbroich Castle, Düsseldorf (1996)
  • Art Cabinet, Nantucket, USA (1996, 1998)
  • Tuscan pillared hall, Augsburg (1997)
  • Ottobeuren market square (2002)
  • St. Ulrich Basilica, Augsburg (2003)
  • Ottobeuren Basilica (2003)
  • City Theater Memmingen (2003)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art - Diether Kunerth, Ottobeuren (2014–2015)

Group exhibitions

  • Museo Würth, La Rioja
  • Museum Würth, Künzelsau
  • Design Fair, New York
  • Neuendorf Gallery, Memmingen
  • Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • Akhenaten Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • Yanagizawa Gallery, Tokyo
  • Marquit Gallery, Boston, USA
  • Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea Trento e Rovereto (MART), Arte Sella Documenta
  • Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) di Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
  • Art Miami, International Modern & Contemporary Art
  • Nevin Kelly Gallery, Washington DC
  • Design Fair, New York
  • Dunap Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
  • Expo Hanover

Recognitions

  • 1970: Art Prize of the administrative district of Swabia
  • 1978: Culture Prize of the City of Memmingen
  • 1985: Great Seven Swabian Prize Augsburg
  • 1988: Citizens' Prize of the City of Kempten (Dachser Prize)
  • 2000: Strigel Prize of the City of Memmingen
  • 2016: Sudeten German Culture Prize for Fine Arts and Architecture

Famous works

  • 1996: Germany's largest wooden head, Erkheim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Museum of Contemporary Art Diether Kunerth | Home page. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.all-in.de/nachrichten/allgaeukultur/Kunstminister-Heubisch-von-Diether-Kunerths-geschaetzt-25-000-Werken-in-Ottobeuren-beeumentt;art2746,1161370
  3. ↑ Memminger Zeitung, May 10, 2014, page 11, "That people recognize the real ..." (Interview with Diether Kunerth)
  4. ^ Diether Kunerth list on the artist's website, accessed on April 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kunerth, Diether
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiwaldau