Karl Friedrich Kunz

Karl Friedrich Kunz (born May 26, 1904 in Herzogswalde , Mohrungen district ( East Prussia ), † January 18, 1969 in Berlin-Kladow ) was a German painter .

Life

Kunz was the 12th child of a wheelwright . From 1920 he received painting lessons from Fritz Pfuhle in Danzig . He had a lifelong friendship with him. In 1925 he was able to buy back the indebted parental farm. After a year of study in Dresden , he moved to his home town in 1927. There he painted the landscapes of Masuria and the East Prussian Oberland . He was often in Pillkoppen and Nidden . In 1935 he toured the Canary Islands , North Africa and Italy . In 1936 he married Ilse Kirsch . In the battle for East Prussia he lost all his works. He and his family fled to Dresden, where they survived the air raids on Dresden . In West Berlin he started over. Most recently he lived in his house in Kladow. Karl Kunz was a member of the German Association of Artists .

In the spring of 2008 , the East Prussian State Museum showed pictures by Kunz in an exhibition .

literature

• Kunz, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 139 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ostpreußenblatt of January 15, 1994, p. 8. Accessed January 2, 2016.
2. ^ The Ostpreußenblatt of February 1, 1969, p. 22. Accessed January 2, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Herbert Wilhelmi : East Prussia and its painters. 1982 annual calendar . Dr. Wolfgang Schwarze Verlag, Wuppertal
4. ↑ ^{a b} Exhibition in the East Prussian State Museum (2008)
5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kunz, Karl ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 2, 2015)