Heinrich Kuhn (painter)

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Heinrich Fritz Kuhn (born September 13, 1906 in Lichtenberg near Berlin ; † June 25, 1991 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel ) was a German teacher and painter .

Career

After graduating from high school, Kuhn studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and passed the state examination in philosophy , German and history. He received his artistic training at the Berlin trade school . Friendships with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel encouraged him.

In the summer months from 1935 to 1938 Heinrich Kuhn visited the painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff several times in the artist colony on Lake Lebasee in Pomerania . The motifs found in this landscape were repeatedly taken up and abstracted by Kuhn in his watercolors and paintings of the time. Before the Second World War he exhibited many of his works at the Kunstverein in Hamburg .

As a soldier he took part in World War II and was taken prisoner by Yugoslavia for four years . After a total of eight years, he made his way to Schleswig-Holstein . Kuhn worked there in the school service, from 1954 until his retirement in 1968 at the North Sea High School in Sankt Peter-Ording . It doesn't seem surprising that Kuhn chose St. Peter-Ording as his new home. The endless expanses of St. Peter-Ordings, sand, dunes and sea are extremely similar to the landscape at Lake Lebasee. In addition, a new generation of painters and artists had settled in St. Peter-Ording, an artist colony comparable to that on Lake Lebasee. One of the most famous representatives of this St. Peteraner group of artists was Friedrich Karl Gotsch . Kuhn sought constant exchange and contact with the members of this local artist group, but also with Emil Nolde , who had set up camp in Seebüll, 80 km away .

After his retirement in 1968, Kuhn moved to Hamburg and devoted himself exclusively to painting until his death.

About the artist's work

Kuhn's early work before the Second World War is strongly based on his expressionist models, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel. The young Heinrich Kuhn followed his role models in their powerful, expressive imagery, which was characterized by bright colored surfaces and angular shapes. And he followed these artists in their preference for the motifs of the coast and its inhabitants, which they liked to visit on the Curonian Spit .

Heinrich Kuhn left the world of recognizable things in his pictures in 1950; he paints non-representational pictures, but he still works on the rectangle of the painting surface. This means that there is still the primordial tension of the ground of measure. A field of tension that lies in every pure mathematical form; d. H. there is still the middle, the vertical and the horizontal axis and the slope.

In the conflict between constructively ordering, rationally perceptible laws of color theory (red, blue, yellow) and abstract-sensual, subjectively bound, emotional color tones (red to blue to yellow) he objectifies the subject and transfers it into a spiritual dimension. Correspondingly, there is the tension between the objectively rationally determinable form (circle, diagonal, square) and the emotional element inherent in the form. Transposition into transcendence succeeds from the interplay and the variations of organizing and sensually perceptible elements . Likewise, mentally irrational contents experience an objectification through the structuring in form and color compositions and are withdrawn from the real sphere.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Wilhelm Weber: Heinrich Kuhn, tempera pictures from the last ten years. Exhibition Kaiserslautern Pfalzgalerie 6 March - 1 March 1972, Kaiserslautern 1972.
  • Wilhelm Pesch: Heinrich Kuhn. [For H. Kuhn on his 70th birthday on September 13, 1976 and for the exhibitions: Mainz, Gutenberg Museum, October 15 – November 14, 1976, Kaiserslautern, Pfalzgalerie, January 16 – 6. 2. 1977] . Mainz 1976.
  • Hansjürgen Krähe: Erwin Hinrichs - Heinrich Kuhn. For the exhibition in the secondary school Sankt Peter-Ording in the summer of 1989. In: From the local history. Local chronicle group, Sankt Peter-Ording. 1990, No. 12, pp. 37-45.
  • Hansjürgen Krähe: Pictures by art educators at the North Sea High School. In: From the local history. Local chronicle group, Sankt Peter-Ording. 1996, No. 18, pp. 161-175.
  • Eckhard Kloth, Hansjürgen Krähe: The picture collection of the community St. Peter-Ording general catalog. Sankt Peter-Ording, KulturTreff eV (Eiderstedter Museum-Spiegel, supplement 1), St. Peter-Ording 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register StA Lichtenberg I, No. 1426/1906
  2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, No. 1039/1991
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Wilhelm Weber : Heinrich Kuhn, tempera pictures from the last ten years. In: Exhibition Kaiserslautern Pfalzgalerie exhibition catalog, Kaiserslautern 1972
  4. ↑ a b c Hansjürgen Krähe: Pictures by art educators of the North Sea High School. In: From the local history . AG Orts-Chronik, Sankt Peter-Ording 1996, No. 18, pp. 161–175
  5. ^ Jürgen Gauert: Kuhn exhibition in California. Husum News November 14, 1990
  6. ↑ Eckhard Kloth, Hansjürgen Krähe (both ed.): The picture collection of the municipality of Sankt Peter-Ording , general catalog. In: Eiderstedter Museums-Spiegel , supplement 1/2002
  7. ↑ a b Hansjürgen Krähe: Heinrich Kuhn. St. Peter-Ording, 2018. Accessed January 2, 2019. [1]
  8. ^ A b Jürgen Weichardt : Heinrich Kuhn, Bernd Uiberall, Hans-Albert Walter In: Exhibition Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen exhibition catalog, Wilhelmshafen 1975
  9. ^ Heinrich Kuhn, Bernd Uiberall, Hans-Albert Walter, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  10. ↑ Ilse Buchwald: Works by St. Peter-Ordings artists staged , Husumer Nachrichten
  11. ^ Hans-Jörg Rickert: St-Peter-Ording-a-second-Worpswede , Husumer Nachrichten
  12. ^ Hans Jörg Rickert: Second exhibition with pictures from the St. Peter-Ording Community Gallery. St. Peter-Ording, 2018. Accessed January 16, 2019. [2]
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn, Heinrich Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichtenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1991
Place of death Hamburg-Eimsbüttel