Karlheinz Kuhn

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Karlheinz Kuhn , also Karl-Heinz Kuhn (born October 26, 1930 in Leipzig , † February 23, 2001 in Rostock ), was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After attending primary school in Leipzig, Karlheinz Kuhn initially trained as a lithographer from 1945 to 1948 . This was followed from 1949 to 1953 at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig , which was completed with "distinction". His teachers included Kurt Massloff and Walter Arnold . For the years 1953–1957 an aspiration followed, which was connected with a teaching position at the Leipzig University.

From 1957 Kuhn took up residence in Rostock, where he mainly worked as a freelance commercial artist. From 1961 to 1968 he was a lecturer in graphics and book art at the University of Rostock , followed by the position of senior assistant with teaching activities again at the Leipzig University from 1968 to 1978. At the same time, he continued to work as a freelancer in Rostock.

Karlheinz Kuhn was chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , Rostock District Association , from 1978 to 1983 , at the same time he also headed the Central Working Group of Visual Arts of the People's Navy . Study trips took Kuhn to Sweden in 1979 and to Austria and Hungary in 1980. Karlheinz Kuhn died in Rostock in 2001 at the age of 70.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Graphic cycle: Sailors of Cattaro. (1956)
  • Graphic cycle: Kiel sailors uprising. (1958)
  • Ten woodcuts : the world is changing. (1960)
  • Eight offset lithographs : Rostock - Old Young City on the Baltic Sea. (1963), included:
    Town Hall on Ernst-Thälmann Platz - Lange Straße - Steintor - Am Kabutzenhof with Neptunwerft - View from Gehlsdorfer Ufer - Überseehafen - Warnemünde Alter Strom - Marienkirche
  • Nine offset lithographs: Rostock - old and young city. (Self-published, Rostock 1993), including three colored motifs:
    Alter Strom in Warnemünde - Kröpeliner Strasse to the east - Kröpeliner Tor - Kröpeliner Strasse with gate - Old trading house in Lagerstrasse - City Hall - University Square and Fünfgiebelhaus - Steintor and Ständehaus - Lange Strasse and Marienkirche


  • Posters for the Baltic Sea Week (1958–1960)
  • Club coat of arms FC Hansa Rostock (1966)
  • Port in Rostock. (1966)
  • African student. (1971)
  • Still life with a blue typewriter. (1971)
  • Red steep bank. (1974)
  • Old town Stralsund. (1976)
  • Church in Rerik. (1980)
  • Overseas port. (1981)
  • Rostock old town. (1981)
  • Warnemünde pier. (1981)
  • Fishing boats. (1983)

Karlheinz Kuhn's works include: B. owned by the State Museum Schwerin , the National Gallery Berlin and the Kunsthalle Rostock .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1963 Karlheinz Kuhn: Report on 5 years of work as a visual artist in the Rostock district, Rostock Museum
  • 1972 District exhibition of fine arts and architecture in the Rostock district, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • 1975 Karlheinz Kuhn: painting, graphics; Rostock art gallery
  • 1982 Karlheinz Kuhn: flowers, plants, landscapes; Sales exhibition painting u. Hand drawings; Gallery on the boulevard, Rostock
  • 1985 Rostock painters draw in Austria: Rudolf Austen , Karlheinz Kuhn, Hannes Müller, Ronald Paris ; Rostock art gallery
  • 1990 Karlheinz Kuhn: Paintings and Drawings - Exhibition for the 60th birthday, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • 2005 In memoriam: 75th birthday, gallery of the Rostock adult education center

literature

  • Karlheinz Kuhn . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 175 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Kuhn, Karlheinz. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania : the personal dictionary. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .
  • Hannelore Gärtner: Karlheinz Kuhn - painter and work. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1986, ISBN 3-364-00008-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Wenzke: Ulbricht's soldiers: Die Nationale Volksarmee 1956 to 1971. Links Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 609 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ^ National People's Army, People's Navy. 15 graphics of the central working group "Fine Arts". (Offset prints based on graphics by members of the Central Working Group on Fine Art of the People's Navy [Artistic Supervisor: Karlheinz Kuhn, Rostock]. Published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the GDR.) Production: Print shop of the GDR Sea Hydrographic Service ( evidence in GBV )
  3. ↑ a b Grete Grewolls: Kuhn, Karlheinz. (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Karlheinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhn, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2001
Place of death Rostock