Ernst Kahl

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Ernst Kahl (born February 11, 1949 near Kiel ) is a German cartoonist , painter , author and singer .

Life

Kahl broke off two apprenticeships before studying a few semesters at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . He also worked as a corpse washer in a hospital.

Kahl is known to a larger audience as a representative of the comic art , especially through his satirical illustrations. His cartoons, pictures and picture stories appeared and appear in pardon , specifically , Titanic , Kowalski , stern , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Feinschmecker and Natur , among others .

In 1994 the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover showed a large solo exhibition. In 1995 the gallery for comic art Caricatura opened in Kassel with the exhibition of 121 masterpieces - Ernst Kahl and art . The Caricatura Museum in Frankfurt am Main is showing an exhibition entitled "Forgotten Catastrophes" from February 7th to May 12th, 2019 on Ernst Kahl's 70th birthday. A catalog was published by Verlag Kunstmann (Munich) under ISBN 978-3-95614-311-3 .

Kahl is married to the artist Eva Muggenthaler , with whom he has two children. The family lives near Husum and in Hamburg .

Works

Book publications (selection)

In addition to his publications as lead author, numerous books have been published since 1983 in which he was involved as an illustrator, including children's books, non-fiction books and volumes of poetry.

Music albums / singles

With guitarist Hardy Kayser as the duo "Ernst Kahl & Kayser":

  • There is still a light on in the fridge (1996)
  • The cowboy is crying (2000)
  • Fresh every day (2001, with Eva Muggenthaler)

Also with the guitarist Hardy Kaiser, as a duo "Die trinkende Jugend", the single:

Sculptures

In 1997, Kahl's sculpture The Bride of the Mason was installed in front of the Kassel Kulturbahnhof as part of Caricatura III . The wall, a good two meters high, has a vertical opening at waist height on its front side; the artist himself referred to it as an "erotic sculpture". It was considered to be the answer to Documenta 10, which did without lavish outdoor art .

Movies

As a director and screenwriter:

  • Archie (1994, short film)
  • The Lober (1996, short film)
  • Everybody Glad in Trinidad (1996, short film)

As a screenwriter:

As an actor:

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Anika Riegert: Ernst Kahl - he paints culinary table tops. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of July 21, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://caricatura-museum.de/ernst-kahl.html
  3. ↑ Thomas Stillbauer: The magician of the unthinkable . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of February 7, 2019, pp. D 4- D5.
  4. ↑ The drinking youth. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Göttinger Elch 2007
  6. ^ Winner of the Wilhelm Busch Prize: Wilhelm Busch Prize 2011. In: wilhelm-busch-preis.de. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bald, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartoonist, painter, singer, filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kiel