Kurt Schulz (painter)

Oil painting by Kurt Schulz

Kurt Schulz (1927 in Hamburg –1999 in Heinschenwalde ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Born and raised in Hamburg, Schulz began his training at the Hamburg State Art School at the age of 17, which later became the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Due to military service and subsequent imprisonment in Lorraine during the Second World War , he was only able to continue his training in 1948. The mixture of inclination and necessity gave rise to his profession as a commercial artist , which he practiced until 1985, most recently as art director of the Lintas agency . Since 1968 he had another studio in Heinschenwalde near Bremervörde in addition to Hamburg, where he also died.

Works

Schulz created around 350 mostly small-format pictures, which were last exhibited posthumously in Hamburg's Elysee . These are characterized by objectivity and an awareness of the “little things” in life. He often took everyday objects out of their usual context and presented them in an unusually different way. He deliberately did not assume any artistic knowledge on the part of the viewer and largely dispensed with purely formal style elements. The “balcony”, on the other hand, can be found throughout his pictures. This is a geometric shape in the lower half of the picture that takes in the view from outside and leads into the picture.

Throughout his life, Schulz was a political person who got involved. He created the logo of the public service, transport and traffic union (ÖTV, later incorporated into ver.di ).

Since his retirement, Schulz had several large solo exhibitions in Hamburg.

literature

• Maike Bruhns: The new rump . Ed .: Kay Rump. Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 405 .
• Roland Burmeister, opening speech for the exhibition Kurt Schulz in the gallery in the Hotel Elysee, Hamburg 1992 (unpublished Ms.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A down-to-earth art Hamburger Abendblatt online from September 23, 1999. Accessed on November 12, 2016.