Waldemar Kuhn

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Waldemar Kuhn (2010) in front of his work, "schwimm"

Waldemar Kuhn (born January 19, 1923 in Westheim ( Lower Franconia ); † October 29, 2015 in Königsberg in Bavaria ) was a German sculptor and artist .

Life

Waldemar Kuhn was born in Westheim in Lower Franconia in 1923 and, after his release from French captivity, studied sculpture at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne from 1948 and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1950 to 1970 he lived and worked in Emmerich on the Lower Rhine . Then he returned to his Franconian homeland and moved into the forester's house in Neuhaus near Knetzgau-Eschenau. Numerous artists frequented Kuhn's house.

Waldemar Kuhn was a sponsor and supporter of the American band Sweet Smoke , which achieved world fame with their album Just a Poke, recorded in Germany in 1970 . He got the band to stay with Emmerich after they tried unsuccessfully to travel to Holland in 1969 and became their first manager. Later on, Nico Scholtens , who had come to Kuhn with the Ensemble Musica Negativa, took over the management . Kuhn's eldest son Rochus and daughter Barberina can be heard on the second Sweet Smoke album Darkness to Light . After their trip to India, the band followed Kuhn in 1973 to Lower Franconia, where Scholtens had also come in the wake of the Kuhns. Barberina Kuhn was in a relationship with the drummer Jay Dorfman, her sister Salome married Nico Scholtens in 1976, who had received a vineyard from Kuhn on which he began his winemaking career.

He had six children with his wife Margarethe. After the death of his wife and two of his sons in just three months in 2007, he retired to a caravan with Eltmann for five years before moving to Königsberg in Bavaria in 2012.

sculpture

Kuhn became known in the late 1950s and 1960s primarily for major public works on the Lower Rhine. In 1958 he received the art prize of the city of Krefeld . His most important work is the scrap cross in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Emmerich (1966). Other important works include a. the coat of arms of the bridge on the Emmerich bridge (1965), the figures on the tower of St. Aldegundis Church in Emmerich (1967) and the wall design of a church in Dinslaken (1967). His last work was the clay bust of David Scherbaum (born June 1, 2003) (2008).

Important later works include a. the wells "Ein Weltbild breaks" at the Regiomontanus-Gymnasium and the vocational school in Haßfurt (1969 and 1978) and at the Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt (1985) and wall designs in the secondary school in Knetzgau (1972) and in the Haßfurt district office (1990).

Picture gallery

  • Interior with altar and a hanging cross by Waldemar Kuhn in the Liebfrauenkirche in Emmerich (2015)

  • Hanging cross in the Liebfrauenkirche in Emmerich (2015)

  • Regiomontanus High School ; on the left the fountain by Waldemar Kuhn (2006)

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Kuhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.weingut-scholtens.com/salome_scholtens.php
  2. ↑ A Tribute at sweetsmokeband.com
  3. ^ Scrap cross for people from all over the world: Waldemar Kuhn celebrated his 90th birthday , in Mainpost from January 20, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Westheim
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2015
Place of death Koenigsberg in Bavaria