Klaus Kowalski

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Klaus Kowalski (born June 16, 1929 in Allenstein ) is a German sculptor , medalist , graphic artist and university professor

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Annual medal of the West German Medal Society Cologne  e. V.
1984
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Annual medal of the West German Medal Society Cologne  e. V.
1984
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After graduating from high school in 1948 and completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Heidelberg, Klaus Kowalski studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1950 to 1956 . His teachers were Gerhard Gollwitzer drawing, Karl Rössing printmaking and Otto Baum sculpture. From 1958 to 1963 he studied art history, archeology and history at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and at the same time worked as an art teacher. In 1963 he was appointed to the Hanover University of Education. Since 1978 he has worked as a university professor for fine arts / visual media and its didactics at the Leibniz University of Hanover . In 1995 he retired from the University of Hanover.

In addition to his practical work as a sculptor, medalist and graphic artist, numerous publications were created on his research and teaching activities. As a sculptor he created many larger works, mostly from wood, stone and bronze. In a later creative phase, he assembled fragments of wood. The more recent works also deal with the color factor and the collage of objects . They allow an associative approach by the viewer. His graphic oeuvre is also extensive in the areas of letterpress and gravure printing . His graphic work is closely related to the sculptural works.

He devoted himself intensively to the field of coin and medal design and, as a professor, also conveyed the design principles to the students. His medal oeuvre of over 120 medals has been in the coin cabinet of the Bode Museum in Berlin since 2013 . He is a member of FIDEM (Fédération Internationale de la Médailles d'Art), as well as the German Society for Medal Art and belongs to the group of Berlin medalists.

In 1984 he designed the annual medal for the West German Medal Society Cologne e. V.

In 2017 he received the Hilde Broër Prize of the German Society for Medal Art for his life's work in the field of medal art .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1968: Bremen Gallery Hofstätter
  • 1969: Hanover Stone Gallery
  • 1976: Zons District Museum
  • 1979: Bissendorf Werkhofgalerie
  • 1980: Syke New Gallery
  • 1982: Rabat / Morocco Musée Oudaias
  • 1983: Lienz Municipal Gallery
  • 1984: Bern / Switzerland, Galerie Schindler
  • 1984: Lüneburg Gallery Am Sande
  • 1985: Itzehoe Galerie Kieken and Klönen
  • 1987: Bissendorf Werkhofgalerie
  • 1989: Konstanz Galerie Zobel
  • 1989: Wunstorf Kunstverein Abbey for its 60th birthday
  • 1989: Cairo / Egypt Gallery Atelier
  • 1990: Bad Essen Art Association in the Sheepfold
  • 1990: Bad Gandersheim Cultural Center Brunshausen (with R. Bultmann)
  • 1994: Bad Essen Kunstverein in the sheepfold
  • 1995: Holzgerlingen Kunstverein Holzgerlingen Burg Kalteneck
  • 1996: Kirchdorf Gallery Art and Form
  • 1999: Schleswig Gallery S
  • 2006: Garbsen married couples exhibit (with Almut †)
  • 2007: Wunstorf Abbey black and white
  • 2009: Bad Rehburg retrospective
  • 2009: Speyer State Library Center, "Life Excerpts"
  • 2009: Hanover ARCUS, "News from the workshop"
  • 2010: Hannover Leibniz Library "The Medal Factory"
  • 2013: Wunstorf Kunstverein Abbey "Stones"
  • 2013: Berlin Coin Cabinet in the Bode Museum, "The Medal Factory"
  • 2017: Dresden State Museums, Münzkabinett

Important investments (selection)

  • 1994: "North German Medalists", Museum August Kestner, Hanover
  • 2000/01: “German Medal Art in the 20th Century”, Gotha Schloss Friedenstein, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  • 2007: "The world in miniature", Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale)
  • 2014: “I gave gold for iron”, Münzkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • 2018: “Portraits of Clever Women”, Humboldt University Berlin, Curator
  • Participated in the FIDEM exhibitions (world medal exhibitions) in the German selection from 1983 in Florence, 1985 Stockholm, 1988 Helsinki, 1990 Colorado Springs, 1992 London, 1994 Budapest, 1996 Neuchâtel, 1998 The Hague, 2000 Weimar, 2002 Paris, 2004 Seixal, 2007 Colorado Springs, 2012 Glasgow, 2014 Sofia, 2016 Gent / Namur, 2018 Ottawa, 2021 Tokyo (postponed from 2020) (in the respective catalog with illustration)

Working in collections

Medal for the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci
2019
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Medal for the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci
2019
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Publicly and privately owned sculptures: u. a .: Till Eulenspiegel Museum Schöppenstedt (graphic), Continental AG Hannover (wall relief stairwell destroyed); IBM Software and Service Center Hanover, communication through creative design, 1990/91 (pyramid on the company premises); Wood carvings in the churches of Steinhude, Holzminden, Bevern; Art possession city of Herten (catalog "world of images" wood sculpture)

Medals are in the

  • Collections of the State Coin Cabinets Berlin, Dresden, Leiden, Munich,
  • Museum August Kestner, Hanover;
  • Goethe Museum Frankfurt a. M. and Weimar

Prices

  • 2007: 3rd prize in the national medal competition "Passengers to Reconstruction" (Paths to Reconstruction)
  • 2017: Hilde Broer Prize for Medal Art from the German Society for Medal Art and the Kressbronn / Bodensee cultural community

literature

  • Medal Cabinet No. 8 Cologne, November 1983.
  • Medal Cabinet No. 11 Cologne, December 1986.
  • Festschrift for the 60th birthday, University of Hannover 1989.
  • Steinmetz + Sculptor 8/1988.
  • The contemporary art medal in Northern Germany, Kestnermuseum Hannover 1994 .
  • The contemporary art medal in Germany . German Society for Medal Art .
    • Volume 1, 1992: The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany 1988–1991.
    • Volume 2, 1994: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The contemporary art medal in Germany 1991–1993.
    • Volume 4, 1996: Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland 1993–1995, with supplements since 1988. ISBN 3-7861-1926-0 .
    • Volume 10, 1999: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998. ISBN 3-7861-2329-2 .
    • Volume 14, 2000: Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany. ISBN 3-88609-443-X and ISBN 3-7861-2387-X .
    • Volume 23, 2007, Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock The world in miniature: German medal art today, 2000–2006. Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , (On the occasion of the exhibition "The World 'en Miniature". German Medal Art Today "from July 15 to October 7, 2007 in the Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale) Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt).
  • Klaus Kowalski: The medal work 1976-2009. Numismatic Society, Speyer 2009.
  • Klaus Kowalski: The medal work 2010–2017. Wunstorf.
  • Alexa Küter: "The medalist Klaus Kowalski - Ten decades, ten medals - A biography in pictures for the 90th birthday of Klaus Kowalski", Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt, June 2019, pp. 209–219.
  • Klaus Kowalski. Plastic, graphic, district museum Zons 1976, catalog.
  • A. Trautenhahn: For a coffee with Klaus Kowalski. Interview. In: Wunstorfer Stadtanzeiger, July 18, 2019.

Own publications

  • Gollwitzer-Kowalski: Paths to the fine arts. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1965.
  • Klaus Kowalski: ... the moon face is finished. Drawing, painting, molding, building with children. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-12-929810-X ; Translated into Finnish ( ISBN 951-26-0802-2 Helsinki 1973), French (Librairie Armand Collin 1974), Portuguese (Edicao no. 40242/2274 Ma᷊c᷊o 1977), Swedish ( ISBN 91-46-12657-0 Lund 1977), Italian (6488 / VO1 Brescia 1978).
  • Klaus Kowalski: Outline of a didactics for the subject of art and communication, seeing, creating, communicating. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-924530-8 .
  • Klaus Kowalski: Plastic Pictures On the History of Relief Design Volume I Prehistory to Romanesque. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-924639-66-3 .
  • Klaus Kowalski: Sculptural Pictures On the History of Relief Design Volume II Gothic to Postmodern. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-924639-67-1 .
  • Postmodernism - style, epoch or frippery? Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2013, ISBN 978-3-89846-684-4 .

Web links

Commons : Klaus Kowalski - a selection of his works  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilde Broër Prize for Medal Art 2017 for Klaus Kowalski. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst eV, October 18, 2018, accessed on April 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://www.wunstorfer-stadtanzeiger.de Wunstorfer Stadtanzeiger
personal data
SURNAME Kowalski, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein