Jo Kuehn

Jo Kuehn, 2011

Jo Kuehn (born October 24, 1945 in Vienna ; bourgeois Joseph or Josef Kühn) is an Austrian painter , graphic artist and silhouette artist .

Life

Jo Kuehn was born in 1945 as the son of a worker from the Vienna garbage disposal and a cook in Vienna. His handicap, severe right hand tremor and dyslexia , turned out to be an obstacle in the school system early on. From 1963 to 1966 he stayed in Crete . This was followed by a year in Turkey. Since 1967 he was back in Austria. Painting and woodcut were his preferred techniques at the time. In the late 1970s and 1980s he was involved in progressive artist groups, e. B. “Working Group Realism” (society-related art) and “Artists for Nature” (focus on environment and nature). From 1980 to 1990 Kuehn made regular short stays in Italy ( Northern Italy and Stromboli ). In 1993 he traveled to India for a year. Since 1998, knife cutting has been his exclusive art form, which he developed into a completely new form with internationally incomparable technology and aesthetics.

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The complete oeuvre of Jo Kuehn is characterized by an extraordinary range of artistic expression and technique. As a child Kühn already practiced painting and paper cutting. The focus of Jo Kuehn's art is on people in an aggressive and desperate world ( expressionism ). His knife cuts were transferred to different materials such as glass ( sandblasting ), metal ( laser cut ) and screen printing . They were animated by Wolfgang Glechner and can be used on DVD and online as games.

Exhibitions

• 1979: Group exhibition Galerie ZB Vienna;
  Traveling exhibition in Austria as part of the Rotpunkt gallery;
• 1980: Korneuburg shipyard; Intergraphik Berlin;
• 1981: Solo exhibition Galerie ZB Vienna;
• 1982: Solo exhibition at Galerie Alibi Vienna;
• 1983: Intergraphik Berlin; Ljubljana City Museum;
• 1984: Bologna City Hall; Carinthia - Artists for Peace;
  Rostock - City Museum; Workshop gallery Vienna;
• 1986: Solo exhibition Galerie ZB Vienna;
• 1987: whim and mood;
• 1990: Intergraphik Berlin;
• 1991: Solo exhibition Galerie de Portis - Salzburg;
  Fingerprints Vienna; Technical Museum - Artists for Nature;
• 1992: Solo exhibition Atelier-Galerie 3A Vienna
• 2003: Gallery Mel-Art Soloexhibition
• 2005: Gallery Mel-Art
• 2007: Art Beijing
• 2008: Art Austria Vienna
• 2008: Art Deagu (Korea)
• 2008: Art Beijing
• 2008: Bookfair Leipzig
• 2009: Art Austria
• 2009: Gallery MEL Art groupexhibition
• 2010: soloexhibition Germany Kunstverein Ham
• 2010: soloexhibition Germany Mettlach (Schubert Winterreise)
• 2011: in PRC: Hangzhou, Shaoxing; CAPUDER art salon, Krems
• 2012: Galerie PAPAS, Vienna; Part of Art Gallery, Retz

Books with cuts by Jo Kühn (selection)

• Waltraud Seidlhofer: City alphabet. Verlag Mitter, Wels 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502828-4-9
• Heinz Janisch : Flying dogs. MEL Kunsthandel, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9501845-9-4
• Eugen Bartmer : The king of beach hikers. MEL Kunsthandel, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-9501845-4-9
• Ulrike Jenni : knife cuts. MEL Kunsthandel, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-9501845-3-2
• Eugen Bartmer: Suffisticated. MEL Kunsthandel, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501845-2-X
• Günther Kaip : Night and day - a tirade. Ritterverlag, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85415-361-9
• Günther Kaip: Trash. MEL Kunsthandel, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-9501845-1-1
• Axel Karner : Cross. Verl. Publ. P No 1, Weitra 2003, ISBN 3-85252-455-5
• Christian Loidl : "schwarzen rotz", edition farnblüte, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902851-11-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Jo Kuehn in the catalog of the German National Library