KH Turk

This article deals with the artist Karl Heinz Türk (1928–2001). For the local researcher see Karl Heinz Türk (* 1926).

KH Türk , with full name Karl Heinz Türk (born January 30, 1928 in Hirschberg (Silesia) , † June 19, 2001 in Nürtingen ) was a German artist ( painting , sculpture and graphics ).

life and work

Karl Heinz Türk came to Wolfenbüttel after serving in the Reich Labor Service and in the Wehrmacht (1944/1945) . As one of the first young people, Türk went to Scotland shortly after the end of the war , where he stayed from 1946 to 1948 and worked in one of the anthroposophically oriented homes of the Camphill movement ; he made his first experiences as a curative educator . This was followed by an encounter with the sculptor Barbara Hepworth in Cornwall . It was here that the intense will to become creative oneself developed.

After two years in England, Türk returned to Wolfenbüttel; here he began studying at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig (1950 to 1952). Two years later he moved to Stuttgart in order to acquire the tools for his later profession as a freelance sculptor at the academy from Professors Otto Baum , Hills, Schellenberger and Daudert (1953 to 1956).

From 1957 KH Türk worked as a freelance artist in Hardt , a district of Nürtingen.

In Nürtingen, KH Türk and his wife Ilse († April 29, 2001) founded the Free Art School (today Free Art Academy ) in 1977 and the University of Art Therapy in 1986 , which he headed as the founding rector from 1987.

In 1985, KH Türk was appointed honorary professor by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science and Art , and in 1987 professor. In 2018, a memorial for the artist and school founder was inaugurated at the Free Art Academy in Nürtingen.

Awards

• 1988: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1997: Culture Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony - Special Prize

Forum KH Turk

The "Forum Ilse and KH Türk" was founded in 2007 by a group of friends and former students. The aim of the Forum Türk association is to preserve the intellectual and artistic legacy of Ilse and KH Türk and to make it accessible to the public.

Exhibitions

• 2000: Galerie am Hausthof, Tübingen, Germany, December 10th to January 27th 2001 (moving groups, small sculptures and photography)
• 2006: Gallery of the City of Wendlingen am Neckar, Germany, September 6th to October 15th (retrospective)
• 2008: Forum Ilse and KH Türk, Nürtingen, Germany, January 30th to March 16th (retrospective on the 80th birthday)
• 2009: Forum Ilse and KH Türk, Nürtingen, Germany, June 28 to July 25 (small bronze)
• 2010: District Court of Nürtingen , Nürtingen, Germany, July 8th to July 30th (special exhibition as part of the "Week of Justice")
• 2011: Forum Ilse and KH Türk, Nürtingen, Germany, April 16 to May 28 (sacred works by KH Türk)

Famous works

Moses and the burning bush at the Liebfrauenkirche Duisburg

Sculpture in the school yard

• "The Scales". Relief at the entrance of the District Court of Nürtingen in Germany (1971)
• "Like an altar". On the premises (corner of Stuttgarter Strasse and Charlottenstrasse) of the Kirchheim unter Teck district hospital , Germany (1992)
• Relief in the foyer of the Kirchheim-Nürtingen Clinic - Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy [1] in Nürtingen, Germany
• Relief "Moses and the burning bush" at the Church of Our Lady in Duisburg , Germany.
• Relief at the Liebfrauenkirche in Duisburg , Germany. Relief section "Expulsion"
• Altar and devotional image in the Evangelical Church of the Redeemer (built in 1967) in Jagstfeld , Germany
• Fountain design at the Square de Nurtingen in Oullins , France
• Wall designs on buildings of the Grafenau grammar school in Germany
• Walkable concrete sculpture at the Hoelderlin-Gymnasium Nürtingen , Germany

literature

Writings from KH Türk

• We are still the first person. A symptomatology of the cultural and art history of the developing human race . Bimax, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-932540-07-3
• Balance of my life. Autobiography of a deceased person . Ch. Möllmann, Borchen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89979-096-2

Representations

• Martin Fuchs and Eugen Gomringer: The sculptor KH Türk. Work report . Belser, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7630-2067-5
• Marc Fredric Gundel: Academy student body and teaching after 1945. On the importance and problems using the example of Otto Baum and Herbert Baumann as art college teachers , dissertation University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1995, pp. 68–70.
• Albrecht Leuteritz: KH Türk - iron sculptures and meditation objects ” . Music, dance and art therapy, January 2000 Vol. 11, No. 1, 36-39, Hogrefe-Verlag, Göttingen, ISSN  0933-6885

Web links

Commons : KH Türk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Forum Ilse and KH Türk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A person of great energy - Nürtinger Zeitung. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ http://www.galerieveronikaburger.de/archiv/tuerk2000/tuerk2000.htm
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.  
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 11, 2017 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. 
5. ↑ http://www.forum-tuerk.de/index.php?article_id=57  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ http://www.forum-tuerk.de/index.php?article_id=67  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ http://www.forum-tuerk.de//files/amtsgericht.pict0218.verkleinert_1.jpg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ http://www.kirchheim-teck.de/cgi/_data/_kirchheim-teck.de/_documents/Kunstinn.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection: High-quality prototype of post-war modernism ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), December 8, 2010, accessed on April 26, 2011
10. ↑ http://www.forum-tuerk.de/files/duisburg.vertrieb_neu.pict0252_450.jpg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ http://www.ev-kirche-neuenstadt.de/jagstfeld/jagstfeld-altar.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ http://www.gestaltungstherapie.at/Intern/LEHREUNDFORSCHUNG/Rezensions/eisenplastiken.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.