Karl Ulrich Nut

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Scout , bronze casting 1999, on the Strümpfelbach sculpture trail

Karl Ulrich Nuss (born January 17, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Two-mark coin with head relief of the former Federal President Theodor Heuss (1971)

Karl Ulrich Nuss is the son of the sculptor Fritz Nuss (1907–1999). From 1961 to 1964 he trained as a chaser at the state higher technical school for the precious metal trade in Schwäbisch Gmünd . He then studied with Hans Wimmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg until 1966 . In 1967 he moved to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin (today University of the Arts Berlin ) to Bernhard Heiliger , with whom he became a master student in 1969 .

Since 1970 he has lived and worked as a freelance sculptor in the Weinstadt district of Strümpfelbach.

In 1972 he was given a teaching position for "sculptural design" at the University of Applied Sciences (now the University of Design) in Schwäbisch Gmünd , which he held until 1979.

Works by Nuss have already been shown at solo exhibitions at home and abroad and are in public spaces, for example, in Hameln, Stuttgart, Marbach am Neckar, Reutlingen, Heilbronn, Bochum, Ulm, Frankfurt am Main, Sindelfingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Oberkochen and Winnenden. In 2001, a sculpture path with 43 works by father and son Nuss was set up in Strümpfelbach . In 2008, the “Couples” sculpture avenue opened near the Naturfreundehaus Strümpfelbach with a further 10 sculptures. Many of his sculptures have been with the Yburg since 2011 .

In 2004 he was made an honorary professor of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Fritz and Karl Ulrich Nuss have also built up a collection of paintings by various, mostly Swabian artists, which is shown in an exhibition in Strümpfelbach. These include works by Hermann Pleuer , Christian Landenberger , Otto Reiniger , Eugen Stammbach , Reinhold Nägele , Max Ackermann , Manfred Henninger , Robert von Haug (1857–1922), Peter Jakob Schober and Otto von Faber du Faur .

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Karl Ulrich Nuss is mainly a large sculptor and works mostly figuratively. Its main material is bronze. Selection:

  • Head relief of the former Federal President Theodor Heuss for the two-mark piece (1971)
  • Pied Piper fountain in front of the town hall in Hameln (1975)
  • Bohrermacherbrunnen in the center of Oberkochen (1990)

  • Bohrermacherbrunnen , bronze casting 1990, Oberkochen

  • Encounter , bronze casting 2000, Strümpfelbach sculpture path

  • Mask pair 1 and mask pair 2, cast bronze, Essingen Castle Park

literature

  • Gerd Dethlefs, Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): GeldKunst - KunstGeld. German commemorative coins since 1949. Design and designer. The art medal in Germany 22. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-9801644-7-0 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Ulrich Nuss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Karl Ulrich Nuss. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 29, 2015 .
  2. ^ Sculpture path on the Weinstadt website
  3. ↑ Skupturenallee on the website of Weinstadt
  4. ^ Article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung about the sculptures on the Yburg ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nut, Karl Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart