Ingo Kühl

Ingo Kühl in Atelier Berlin 2015

Ingo Kühl (born June 29, 1953 in Bovenau , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German painter , draftsman , sculptor and architect .

Life

Ingo Kühl grew up in Bovenau, where his father was a police officer. His mother died in 1957 at the age of thirty-five. His father remarried a year later. In 1964 the family moved to Hanerau-Hademarschen . After completing the local Theodor Storm Realschule there, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and technical draftsman and attended the technical high school in Rendsburg . From 1973 to 1976 he studied architecture at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences and graduated as a graduate engineer . He worked in an architecture office in Haale and later as a freelancer in Berlin, enrolled at the Technical University of Berlin , switched to the Berlin University of the Arts and studied architecture and fine arts from 1977 to 1982. During this time, he created his drawings on the subject of architectural fantasies, which were influenced by Surrealism . After meeting the painter Heinz Trökes in 1979, which made a great impression on him, he turned to painting.

He traveled to London, Paris, Prague, Israel and took part in an excursion to Tehran . In addition to his Berlin studio, he set up a studio in Garding on Eiderstedt (1980 to 1994). The experience of the landscape by the sea led him, starting from abstract expressionism , to landscape painting . At the same time, drawings, oil paintings and sculptures for fantastic architecture were created . These works reflect u. a. the utopian literature of the Glass Chain , an association of young architects and writers.

In 1982 he spent two months in New York in a studio in Brooklyn . When he returned to Berlin, he worked for a time as a freelancer in an architecture office and built a roof-top studio in Wedding . In 1984, together with Ulrich-Oliver Selka , he tried to realize one of Hermann Finsterlin's architectural visions , the “Finsterlin Architecture 1917” project for the Sindelfingen State Horticultural Show. From 1984 to 1987 was Ingo cooling member of the Chamber of Architects Berlin as a freelance architect.

In 1985 he met Ute and Günter Grass at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço in Almancil, Portugal . Through Grass he met Christiane and Heinz Ludwig Arnold , who became collectors of his pictures. On the occasion of the award of the Wine Prize for Literature , which Arnold bestowed on Sarah Kirsch in 1986 , the writer met in Göttingen . She wrote poems based on pictures by Ingo Kühl, which were published in 1988 in the book Luft und Wasser by Steidl Verlag. In 1989 he set up his main studio in Eiderstedt for two years. There I had an artistic exchange with the painter Bruno Kirstein before he returned to Berlin. In 1995 he was artist in residence at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço. During a trip over mountains to the Faroe Islands and Iceland, he painted landscapes with watercolors. He entered into a partnership with the art teacher Annette Huber, whom he married in 2001. In 1999 he traveled to the Baltic States and Scandinavia and set up a studio in Reine . A trip around the world followed in 2000. In November of the same year he set up a studio in a former farm on Nordstrand , where he painted a series of sea pictures until October 2001.

In 2001/2002 he spent a year with his wife in the South Seas. After participating in an expedition of the Cultural Center to ceremonies of the indigenous people on Malakula , the works created there were shown in an exhibition in the National Museum of Vanuatu. A total of 69 oil paintings, 154 works on paper and 280 sheets in sketchbooks were created in the South Seas.

Ingo Kühl has had a studio in Keitum since 2002 . As part of an international artist exchange project of the North Elbe Mission Center in Hamburg, he painted the painting The Creation in Papua New Guinea in 2010 together with the local sculptor and painter Tomulopa Deko . From 2014 to 2020 Ingo Kühl had a studio in Berlin-Friedenau in the Goerz-Höfe . He currently lives in Berlin and Keitum on Sylt.

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  Color space 1986
  Oil on canvas 100 × 100 cm
  owned by the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum

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  Seebild 2014
  Oil on canvas 150 × 200 cm

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  Architecture sculpture 1988 bronze 69 × 35 × 20 cm

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  Architectural sculpture 2009
  epoxy resin 400 × 220 × 110 cm

painting

In his eclectic early work, echoes of surrealism , abstract expressionism , action painting and tachism can be recognized. From 1983 he dealt with landscape painting and after a phase of almost monochrome non-representational pictures that are reminiscent of the work of Gotthard Graubner , he turned back to representational painting. In 1998 he painted four large-format oil paintings on the theme of four seasons for the Johanniter Hospital in Fläming in Treuenbrietzen .

Plastic work

Since 1986, he formed after his drawings on the subject of architectural fantasies sculptures in clay and plaster , of which 1988 in the fine art foundry Hermann Noack in bronze cast was. It served as a model for an accessible, unfinished and temporary architectural sculpture The eighth day on the Obermarkt in Görlitz (1996) as well as for several casts in plaster of paris , acrystal and zellan . He also created eight colored clay reliefs on the subject of the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount for the senior citizens' home next to the Christ Church in Görlitz (1997) and the five-part series West Coast , inspired by the West Coast of New Zealand . In 2008 three architectural sculptures with the title Raum (The Whole City) were cast in bronze. An enlarged version of the architecture sculpture from 1988 was made in 2009 in the Berlin Sculpture Workshop (on a scale of 5: 1) and shown in the exhibition Art on the Beach in Rantum on Sylt. In 2010 he created two sculptures with colored carvings in Keitum on Sylt with Tomulopa Deko , wedding chairs in the form of Kundu drums .

graphic

On architectural drawings , blueprints and technical constructions followed by studies of " ancient and modern masters" and things of the visible world. The graphic work includes drawings, works oil on paper, watercolors , lithographs and etchings .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Architecture fantasies - work in the border area between painting and architecture , Berlin University of the Arts, 1981. Figures and form komposits , The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant Inc., Brooklyn, New York 1982. Mare nostro , Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil , Algarve , Portugal 1986. Air and water , Nordfriesisches Museum, Nissenhaus , today Nordfriesland Museum , Husum 1988. Himmel , Kardinal-von-Galen-Haus , Cloppenburg-Stapelfeld 1995. Winter trip to Franz Schubert , to the Schubert Almanac, Sender Free Berlin (SFB), Haus des Rundfunks , Berlin 1996. Winter trip to Franz Schubert, Philharmonie , Berlin 1997. A velha ponte de madeira / The old wooden bridge Quinta do Lago , Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil , Algarve, Portugal 1998. Pictures painted in Portugal , German- Ibero-American Society, Frankfurt am Main 1999. Paisagens marinhas , Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Algarve, Portugal 2001. Dance - Masks - Ceremonies , National Museum of the Republic of Vanuatu / Nasonal Miusium blong Vanuatu , Port Vila, South Pacific 2002. Landscapes at the end of the world , Embassy of the Republic of Chile, Berlin 2003. Faroe Islands , Royal Danish Embassy, ​​Berlin 2003/2004. South Sea Waves , Ethnological Museum , National Museums in Berlin - Dahlem Museums 2004/2005.

Power of nature , Museum of the City of Bad Hersfeld 2005. Landscapes at the End of the World II , Embassy of the Republic of Chile, Berlin 2006. Heaven and Earth , Art Circle and City of Cloppenburg - Catholic Academy, Stapelfeld 2008. Ars Borealis , Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2009. The Creation , with Tomulopa Deko, University of Goroka , Papua New Guinea 2010. The Sea I-IV , Tree Top Lodge, Port Vila , Vanuatu, South Pacific 2012. Winterreise , Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie, Berlin 2013. Around Cape Horn , Embassy of the Republic of Chile, Berlin 2013/2014. Retrospective - 35 years of painting - for Ingo Kühl's 60th birthday , with a staged reading Meereslust in the work of Ingo Kühl by and with Ingrid Lucia Ernst on February 22, 2014, Stadtgalerie Alte Post, Westerland / Sylt 2014. On the way into the unknown - painting and sculpture , Kunsthaus Hänisch, Kappeln 2015. Colored - not colorful , with Frauke Bohge, Haus des Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg ( rbb ), Berlin 2015/2016. Near the sea - pictures and sculptures , Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus, Husum 2018. Close to the sea - works by Ingo Kühl , Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2018/2019. World Edge - watercolors, oil paintings and sculptures by Ingo Kühl , Stadtgalerie Alte Post, Westerland / Sylt 2019.

Holdings

Homage (à Hermann Finsterlin), Obere Galerie - Haus am Lützowplatz , Tiergarten Art Office , Berlin 1984. Death and Life , Upper Gallery - Haus am Lützowplatz , Tiergarten Art Office , Berlin 1986. Villa Massimo selection, applications for the Rome scholarship - nominated by Berlin for the architecture section, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Gottorf Castle , Schleswig 1988. Berlin artists with Harald Gnade , Ilja Heinig , Wolf Vostell , Hanaro Art Center, Seoul , South Korea 1988. Villa Massimo selection, applications for the Rome scholarship - nominated by Berlin for the architecture section, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen 1991. Art volume through Europe - artists against war , artist club Die Möwe , Berlin (East), 1992/1993. Arte Europeia Contemporânea - Colecção Marie e Volker Huber , Antigo mercado municipal de Portimão , Algarve, Portugal, 1993.

Art scamble , Galerie Michael Schultz , Berlin 1998. New acquisitions and pictures from the holdings of the Söl'ring Foriining , Sylter Heimatmuseum, Keitum / Sylt 2003. Makes art , KunstHalle of Deutsche Bank in the Alte Münze, Berlin 2013. Summer exhibition - artists of the gallery , Kunsthaus Müllers, Rendsburg 2012 and 2013. ... moves ... , Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2013. Five in the museum - the artists from the 'Tisch am Kliff' , design of a table with two bronze reliefs each in front of the Sylt Museum am Kliff and an exhibition of works in the museum by Walter vom Hove, Ingo Kühl, Hans Joachim Pohl, Edda Raspé and Hans Jürgen Westphal on the topic of 5000 years of Sylt history , Keitum / Sylt 2019.

Works in public collections

Academy of the Arts Berlin 1981. Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin 1982. The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant Inc., Brooklyn, New York 1982. America Memorial Library , Berlin 1984. Schering Kunstverein, Berlin 1986. Schleswig-Holstein State Museum - Gottorf Castle , Schleswig, 1988 and 2018. North Friesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum , Husum 1988. Historic State Hall for Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel 1988. Art Association, Kappeln 1991. Herzog August Library , Wolfenbüttel 1996. National Museum of the Republic, Port Vila , Vanuatu, South Pacific, 2002.

Söl'ring Foriining, Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt 2003 and 2019. Ostfriesische Graphothek , Aurich 2004. Artoteket på det tyske Bibliotek i Aabenraa, Denmark 2005. Friends of the Cardinal von Galen Foundation , Cloppenburg-Stapelfeld 2007. Kunsthaus Hänisch, Kappeln 2008. City of Cloppenburg 2008. Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2009. University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea 2010. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2016.

Publications (selection)

Architektur-Fantasien , silkscreen booklet with hand-colored drawings, with a foreword by Curt Grützmacher , Flensburg 1981. Drawings 1976-81 , exhibition catalog at the Central University Library of the University of the Arts Berlin , no. 1-99 with original drawings, edited by Andreas Bode, Berlin 1982nd North Sea pictures 1980–1983 , No. 1–20 with original picture, Berlin 1983. Homage to Hermann Finsterlin . In: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstimpulse II - Homage - Artists to Works by Artists , p. 10, Obere Galerie - Haus am Lützowplatz , Kunstamt Tiergarten , published by Paul Corazolla , Berlin 1984. Paul Scheerbart Ingo Kühl Glasarchitektur , texts by Paul Scheerbart (1914) and Curt Grützmacher (editor), with 48 screen prints by Ingo Kühl, Achat Druck der Handpresse Gutsch, Berlin 1988. Sarah Kirsch Ingo Cool Air and Water - New Poems and Pictures , Edition Lutz Arnold in Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 1988, special edition to ISBN 3-88243-096-6 . Gezeiten 1989–1990 , with an essay by Curt Grützmacher, Berlin 1992. Winterreise - 24 pictures for the song cycle of the same name by Franz Schubert - based on poems by Wilhelm Müller - painted after the interpretation by Barry McDaniel , vocals - Jonathan Alder, piano , Berlin 1996. Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount according to Matthew 5 : 1-12 - colored lithographs by Ingo Kühl , Berlin 1997. Faroe Islands - picture cycle 15 watercolors 9 oil paintings , Berlin 1998. Sea and Sky , catalog for the exhibition in the Galeria de Arte Vale do Lobo, Algarve, Portugal, Loulé 2002. Seven small pictures - works on paper 2001–2002 , Keitum 2003. North Sea - South Sea. Oil paintings · Works on paper · Clay reliefs 2002–2003 , catalog book for the exhibition South Sea Waves - Pictures by Ingo Kühl in the Ethnological Museum , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museums Dahlem 2004/2005, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Verlagsgruppe Husum , Husum 2004, ISBN 3 -86530-001-4 . Transition to Chatkal . In: Para / for / für Volker - 36 artistas prestam homenagem a / 36 artists pay their homage to / 36 Künstler Gedenken Volker Huber , catalog for the exhibition in the Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 44, 45, 102, Loulé 2005.

Power of nature - pictures painted by Ingo Kühl on Sylt , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum of the City of Bad Hersfeld , with a contribution by Malte Elbrächter and poems by Paul Celan and Theodor Storm . Breklum 2005, ISBN 3-7793-1097-X . Landscapes at the end of the world - pictures painted by Ingo Kühl in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego / Paisajes del fin del mundo - Cuadros de Ingo Kühl pintados en la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego , with texts by Antonio Skármeta and Ingo Kühl, Berlin 2006. On the way into the unknown - monograph with catalog raisonné of the oil paintings 1978–2007 Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6 . Sketchbook New Zealand - South Seas - Peru , Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-51-7 . The Önereersken von Sylt - legends and fairy tales from North Friesland and elsewhere - retold by Linde Knoch - pictures by Ingo Kühl , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-03528-9 . Kampen Sylt , photos by Hartmut Kettler, watercolors Ingo Kühl, illustrated book, edited by Gunnar Kettler, Kettler Verlag, Bönen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-118-1 . Architektur-Phantasien / Architectural Fantasies with catalog raisonnés of drawings, oil paintings, sculptures, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-470-0 . The house on the Watt - Kampener sketches , Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-473-1 . Das Haus am Watt (large format 42 × 30 cm), Edition Schöne Bücher published by Kettler Verlag, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-484-7 . Near the Sea - monograph and catalog raisonné of oil paintings 2007-2017. Supplementary volume to the monograph "On the way into the unknown" (2007) , Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-693-3 . The wise tree , text Behzad Nashat, pictures by Ingo Kühl, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89468-291-0 .

Writings about Ingo Kühl (selection)

Heinz Ohff : "Architectural Fantasies" by Ingo Kühl. In: Der Tagesspiegel , Berlin, March 21, 1982. Curt Grützmacher : Ingo Kühl From the North Sea landscape to the color space. In: Workshop visits with artists in Berlin-Wedding , p. 25, edited by Ursula Diehl and Gisela Weimann , FAB Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-927551-03-1 . Heinz Spielmann : Ingo Kühl Farbraum 1986. In: Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum , Schloss Gottorf , New Series, Volume II 1988–1989 , p. 288, Karl Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 1990, ISBN 978-3-529-02752-9 (formerly: 3-5290-2752-9). Gisela Weimann : Ingo Kühl. In: A Paradox Draws Circles - The Living Museum Becomes an Institution , Galerie Lebendiges Museum, Berlin 1990. Curt Grützmacher: Tides. In: Ingo Kühl Gezeiten 1989–1990. S. 1, Berlin 1992. Reprinted in: Ingo Kühl - On the way into the unknown. P. 52, Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6 . Margret Schütte: I have to show me the way ... In: Ingo Kühl Winterreise. Pp. 53-55, Berlin 1996. Karl Waldeback: Visitor Artist exhibits in Port Vila . In: Trading Post, Port Vila , Vanuatu , June 9, 2002. Maria-Gesine Thies: Water, clouds, space - the North Sea. In: Ingo Kühl North Sea - South Sea. Pp. 5–6, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, publishing group Husum 2004, ISBN 3-86530-001-4 . Markus Schindlbeck : Waves of the South Seas. In: Ingo Kühl North Sea - South Sea. Pp. 18, 20, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, publishing group Husum 2004, ISBN 3-86530-001-4 . Marisol Retamal: Artista aleman llego a la zona para captar los paisajes australes . In: La Prensa Austral, Punta Arenas , Chile November 16, 2005. Antonio Skármeta : The Law of the Clouds - About Ingo Kühl's pictures / La ley de las nubes - Sobre las pinturas de Ingo Kühl. In: Ingo Kühl Landscapes at the end of the world - Paintings by Ingo Kühl in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego / Paisajes del fin del mundo - Cuadros de Ingo Kühl pintados en la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. Berlin 2006 and in: Ingo Kühl - On the way into the unknown. P. 126–129, Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6 . Heinz Spielmann: Form of the Unshaped. In: Ingo Kühl - On the way into the unknown. Pp. 135-137, Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6 .

Heinz Spielmann: Determination of the indefinite - reminiscences of clouds and waves in Ingo Kühl's pictures. In: Ars Borealis - Edition on Contemporary Art in the North - Ingo Kühl Sylt , Issue 21, pp. 3–5, Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2009. Republished in: Ingo Kühl - Near the Sea. Pp. 10–12, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-693-3 . Traugott Giesen : How Ingo Kühl paints the sea. In: Ars Borealis , Heft 21, p. 7. Petra Reiber: The forces of nature and a picture by Ingo Kühl. In: Ars Borealis , issue 21, p. 28. Rainer W. Ernst: On Ingo Kühl's "Architecture". In: Ars Borealis , issue 21, p. 40 and in: Ingo Kühl Architektur-Phantasien / Architectural Fantasies. P. 47, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-470-0 . Bernd Brandes-Druba: Only change is constant . In: Newsdetails. State Cultural Association Schleswig-Holstein January 19, 2009. Andrea Rohmann: Architectural Fantasies - On the Way into the Unknown. In: “Sylt Coordinates” No. 6, pp. 28–33, HC-Verlag Rohmann Jensen, Reinbek 2010, ISSN  1865-9071 . Heinz Spielmann: Fantastic Ideas for a Utopian Architecture - On drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ingo Kühl. In: Ingo Kühl Architektur-Fantasien / Architectural Fantasies. Pp. 5–11, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-470-0 . Pierre Boom : From the spirit of the imagination . In "Sylter Rundschau" title, p. 9, February 15, 2015. Thomas Gädeke: The crowning glory of arches of clouds - Sylt in contemporary painting. In: Sylt - discover, experience, enjoy. P. 91–93, Ellert & Richter Verlag , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8319-0601-7 . Sigrid Zielke-Hengstenberg: House on the Watt. In: Das Haus am Watt. Pp. 8–11, Edition Schöne Bücher published by Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-484-7 . Bernd Brandes-Druba: Only change is constant. In: Ingo Kühl - Near the sea. S. 17, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-693-3 . Uwe Hauptenthal: water pictures. On Ingo Kühl's painting. In: Ingo Kühl - Near the sea. Pp. 21–22, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-693-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ingo Kühl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry Ingo Kühl in Deutsche Biographie
• Ingo Kühl's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Pynacker Hof on Nordstrand
2. ↑ Sketchbook Trobriand Islands ( Link )
3. ↑ Four Seasons: Pictures for the Johanniter Hospital in Fläming
4. ^ Dataset in WorldCat / Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne
5. ^ Exhibition website Ethnological Museum, National Museums in Berlin - Dahlem museums
6. ↑ Website Landeskulturverband Schleswig-Holstein, Bernd Brandes-Druba: Only change is constant
7. ^ Exhibition in the Embassy of the Republic of Chile
8. ↑ 35 years of painting - for Ingo Kühl's 60th birthday
9. ↑ Just Sylt "Meereslust" in the work of Ingo Kühl
10. ↑ A traveler in matters of art.
11. ↑ Museum Association North Friesland
12. ↑ Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein
13. ↑ Municipality of Sylt, exhibition Welttrand by Ingo Kühl
14. ↑ Sylt1.TV art project "Tisch am Kliff"
15. ^ Archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, Hermann Finsterlin Collection in the Hans Scharoun Archive
16. ^ Article in Schleswiger Nachrichten
17. ^ Museums in North Schleswig-Holstein
18. ^ Dataset from the German National Library
19. ^ Dataset from the German National Library
20. ^ Dataset at the Thomas J. Watson Library
21. ↑ Record in WorldCat
22. ^ Dataset at the Thomas J. Watson Library
23. ↑ Record in WorldCat