Kurt Bahlmann

Kurt Bahlmann (* 1940 in Einswarden near Nordenham ) is a German sculptor , painter and draftsman .

Life

He first studied art at the Werkkunstschule in Münster and then studied sculpture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin- Charlottenburg as a master student of Hans Uhlmann in the early 1960s. He then worked as an art teacher. In 1968 he lived in Bielefeld .

As a painter he was familiar with the portraits of women by the American artist Willem de Kooning . Kurt Bahlmann created a cycle of female nudes and was one of the co-founders of Action Painting in Germany . In 1972 he exhibited in a solo exhibition in the Grohmann exhibition room in Munich . He painted the forces that drove him to paint and as a painter was never an outsider, but in the middle of the picture, so that the female nudes and the space around them merged.

Kurt Bahlmann, on the other hand, made his artistic breakthrough as a sculptor with play objects and as a painter with parallel raster images based on Op Art . Most of his works are in a few private art collections. Therefore, although he co-founded action painting in Germany, he has been forgotten and hardly represented in current exhibitions. Today he makes square, multi-color screen prints, as are typical of the art movement of Constructivism. Squares, rectangles, circles and the primary colors red, yellow and blue make up his geometric prints. The lines and shapes seem to move through the play of colors and the course of the lines.

Kurt Bahlmann lived in Italy and then in Melle .

Exhibitions

• Kunsthalle Bielefeld 1968 (solo exhibition)
• Gallery Grohmann 1972 in Munich (solo exhibition)
• Kunstforum Melle 2010 (solo exhibition)

Works in collections

• Cycle of three female nudes from 1968, private art collection in Obervorschütz
• Bielefeld art gallery

literature

• Artist directory NRW 1968.
• Bahlmann, Kurt . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 293 f.
• Helmut Ebert: Artists in East Westphalia-Lippe. Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-88918-081-7 .
• Archive of the University of the Arts in Berlin