Kurt Arentz

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Kurt Emil Hugo Arentz (born May 30, 1934 in Cologne , † June 23, 2014 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Bust of Cardinal Josef Frings

Life

He finished school from 1940 to 1951 with a secondary school leaving certificate . From 1951 to 1954 he successfully completed a craft apprenticeship. Arentz lived and worked in Leverkusen . After various work as a painter and sculptor, he concentrated on portraits in the form of busts. A cross section of his works can also be seen in the Museum Europäische Kunst in Nörvenich Castle . Arentz was, among other things, artist spokesman for the European Cultural Foundation (EKS) Germany and commissioner for transatlantic cultural relations between Europe and the USA.

Arentz had been married to Maria-Therese Klein since 1959, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He died unexpectedly of heart failure in Munich a few weeks after his 80th birthday after having survived a heart operation and a stay in a rehabilitation clinic on Lake Starnberg . The burial took place on July 8, 2014 in the family grave at the Manfort cemetery in Leverkusen.

Works

Busts

(Selection)

Sculptures

(Selection)

  • Mother and Child (1997) in the Opladen pedestrian zone
  • Faithful Hussar (1997) to Saint Stephen
  • Saint Maurinus (1997) in Lützenkirchen
  • Pigs (1999) in Bürrig
  • Mother and Child (2001) in the Wiesdorfer Erholungshauspark
  • Josef Schüller statue in the Sankt Josef Hospital (2002)
  • Tired spark in the pedestrian zone Opladen
  • Bergischer Löwe in Lützenkirchen (2004)

Awards and honors

  • Heinz Sielmann Environment Prize 1998
  • Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on January 11, 2001
  • Artist spokesman for the European Culture Foundation at Nörvenich Castle
  • Member of the Alexander Order Pour le Mérite for Art and Science
  • Portrait bust and relief "Kurt Arentz" modeled for cultural institutions by Siegfried W. Lunau

Exhibitions

(Selection)

  • 1981 and the following years: Neue Werke Haus der Kunst , Munich
  • 1983 painting, Torhalle Fraueninsel
  • 1984 Pictures and sculptures, NRW-Kunstkreis Nörvenich
  • 1984/85 World of Animals, Museum Alexander König Bonn
  • 1985 The animal in art, Musée de la chasse et dela nature, Paris
  • 1994 West-Art Gallery Clarence / Buffalo, USA.
  • 1996 "Portraits of important contemporaries" in the Rotes Rathaus , Berlin
  • 1997 "Animal diversity" in the Baykomm of Bayer AG , Leverkusen
  • 2009 "Portraits of Contemporary History" on the artist's 75th birthday, Museum Europäische Kunst, Nörvenich
  • 2009 "Big and Small Animals", portraits and animal sculptures, Sensenhammer Industrial Museum, Leverkusen
  • 2010 animal bronzes from the cycle "Die Arche Noah", Galerie Marco Edition, Bonn
  • 2012 The German Sculptor Kurt Arentz, US Museum of European Art, Clarence, NY
  • 2014 Hommage a Kurt Arentz, on his 80th birthday, May 2014, Kunst-Museum Schloss Nörvenich, North Rhine-Westphalia (catalog)

Works in public space

Numerous works by Kurt Arentz can be found in public spaces in Europe and America. In 2014, the third monument he created was unveiled in his hometown of Cologne, the larger than life bronze bust of the former Lord Mayor Harry Blum in the Rheinauhafen . The monument designed by Arentz on Laurenzplatz and the high relief in the Pius Church, Cologne Zollstock, commemorates the Archbishop of Cologne, Joseph Cardinal Frings.

In addition, there are more than 20 bronze works in public places in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone . This includes the larger-than-life bronze portrait of "Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker" in the Museum of European Art at Nörvenich Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia (Düren district). A portrait bust of "Mildred Scheel" is in the German Cancer Aid Foundation in Bonn. A portrait bust of "Hans-Dietrich Genscher" is in the newly created Gentscher-Saal in 2018 in Goethestadt Bad Lauchstädt (Saxony-Anhalt).

literature

  • Volker G. Probst: The sculptor Kurt Arentz , Marco-Edition Bonn-Paris-New York, 1984. ISBN 3-921754-23-2
  • Gabriela von dem Boom: Portraits and new sculptures , Ed. John G. Bodenstein, Edition Museum Europäische Kunst, Nörvenich Castle . ISBN 3-925176-07-1
  • * Arno Breker : Encounters and Reflections, (Ed.) Marco J. Bodenstein, Edition Marco-VG, Bonn-Paris-New York, 1987. ISBN 3-921754-27-5
  • B. John Zavrel / Gorge Bush: "The Portraitist Kurt Arentz - 76 Portraits", US Museum of European Art, NY / West-Art Clarence 1996, New York
  • Ralf Wieland : "Art in Parliament - bust gallery", Berlin House of Representatives Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-922581-19-2
  • Andreas Bettermann: "Atelier visit with Kurt Arentz" (OBO Bettermann commemorative publication), Ludger Baumeister concept, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sculptor Kurt Arentz died. In: Focus from June 25, 2014 (accessed June 25, 2014).
  2. ^ Note in the Kölner Wochenspiegel from July 2, 2014
  3. ↑ Official death notice of the family.
  4. ↑ Arentz Archive, EKS, Bonn
  5. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Kurt Arentz
  6. ^ Catalog A Museum is Born, ISBN 0-914301-16-0
  7. ^ Catalog, Eberhard Diepgen, 1996
  8. ↑ Exhibition directory, June 2012
  9. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger from June 20, 2014: "Harry-Blum-Bust in the Rheinauhafen"
personal data
SURNAME Arentz, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arentz, Kurt Emil Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2014
Place of death Munich