Ernst W. Kunz

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Ernst Wilhelm Kunz (born September 8, 1912 in Henschhausen , † February 19, 1985 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German painter and sculptor .

biography

Ernst W. Kunz lived in Saarbrücken from 1918 . From 1929 to 1931 he completed an apprenticeship as a painter . After a three-year apprenticeship from 1931 to 1934 as a decorative painter , he attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts . From 1934 to 1938 he worked as a craftsman and freelance painter. This was followed by a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1938 to 1939 . During his apprenticeship with Hermann Kaspar, Kunz u. a. Otto Pankok , Friedrich Schneidler , Karl Bonatz ( Paul Bonatz ?) And Olaf Gulbransson , who influenced him in his work.

From 1939 to 1945 Kunz was a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was deployed in the theaters of war in France, Africa and the Balkans. After the war he settled in Ursenbach in the Odenwald .

From 1948 onwards he studied regularly in France ( Fontvieille in Provence ). In 1959, Kunz moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein at the invitation of the city administration . In 1962 he was the initiator and pioneer of the artistic application of the "full-form casting process" using the new plastic Styrofoam . In 1963 he became a founding member of the Rhein-Neckar Artists' Association . In 1964 the biography of Bertold Roland The painter Ernst W. Kunz was published . In 1973 Ernst W. Kunz received the Slevogt Medal from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1985 he died in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In his honor, a street in Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim in the Melm development area bears his name (Ernst-Kunz-Straße).

Honors

  • Slevogt Medal from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1979: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1982 Willibald Kramm Prize

Works and work

Palatine Column
Dumpling fountain
  • 1958 Chamber of Crafts Mannheim - stone mosaic
  • 1960 Federal Court of Justice Karlsruhe - plenary hall in natural stone design
  • 1961 Ursuline Chapel, Mannheim - glass mosaic, concrete glass windows
  • 1962 Catholic Church of St. Lioba, Mannheim - concrete glass windows, altar, tabernacle
  • 1964 Troop accommodation in Speyer - concrete relief
  • 1964 Rastatt District Hospital - natural stone mosaic
  • 1965 Bretten District Hospital - cast aluminum
  • 1965 Portland cement , Heidelberg administration building - concrete free plastic.
  • 1966 House of Youth, Ludwigshafen - glass mosaic
  • 1967 Bensheim school center - free sculpture
  • 1968 Wiesbadener Bank , Wiesbaden - wall design made of natural stone
  • 1968 New palace building in Ludwigshafen - artistic interior and exterior design:
    • Cast aluminum parapets
    • Opera curtain
    • Natural stone mosaic, concrete relief
  • 1968 Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen - Palatinate column. Created in collaboration with Blasius Spreng. The Palatinate Column in front of the Palatinate Building is a 21 meter high sculpture and belongs to the outdoor area of ​​the new Palatinate Building, which was inaugurated in 1968, the theater building of the city of Ludwigshafen.
  • 1969 Federal Research Center for Agriculture , Braunschweig - aluminum wall relief
  • 1969 Catholic city church in Wiesloch - altar design, portals
  • 1971 Östringen school center near Bruchsal - natural stone mosaic
  • 1972 Festhalle Wörth - stair balustrades: cast glass relief, cast aluminum latticework
  • 1973 Southwest building trade association, Karlsruhe - aluminum wall design
  • 1974 Engelhardt carpet store in Mannheim - facade design, cast aluminum
  • 1974 Schwetzingen District Hospital - cast aluminum
  • 1974 Hospital in Geldern - bronze latticework
  • 1975 Catholic community center, Speyer - altar, concrete glass windows, tabernacle, natural stone mosaic, cast aluminum candlesticks
  • 1976 Piston-Mahle , administration building, Stuttgart - interior design, cast aluminum
  • 1977 Data center United AOK Südbaden-Pfalz, Eisenberg - cast iron wall design
  • 1977 " Knödelbrunnen ", Ludwigshafen - the fountain is located in the pedestrian zone and takes its name from the round spherical elements.

literature

  • The new art archive. Publisher Pfälzer Kuenstlergenossenschaft EV, issue 18, 1964, biography p. 64
  • Ernst W. Kunz. Under the spell of Provence. New drawings and watercolors. Palatinate art publisher Dr. Hans Blinn, Landau Pfalz 1977
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum. 20th century art. A selection from the inventory . Ludwigshafen 1999
  • Berthold Roland: The painter Ernst W. Kunz . Karl Graf Verlag, Speyer 1964

Catalogs

Web links

Commons : Ernst W. Kunz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstverein Ludwigshafen ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 23, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstverein-ludwigshafen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Ernst W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunz, Ernst Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Henschhausen
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1985
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein