Walter Kütz

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Walter Kütz (2011)

Walter Kütz (born December 16, 1957 in Aachen ) is a German sculptor .

Life

He initially studied biology and geology and then switched to Klaus Rinke's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1981 to 1987 . Here he becomes a master student in 1987. In 1988 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize, in 1990 the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant and in 1994 the HAP Grieshaber grant. After short stays in Naples, Brussels and Verviers (Belgium), Walter Kütz has lived in Berlin since 1990. Since his participation in the group exhibition "Deep Views" Art of the 1980s from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Austria and Switzerland in the Landesmuseum Darmstadt in 1985 he has been discussed nationally, since his work "Origin of Species" from 1990 also internationally. At the beginning of his artistic work he used natural materials such as wood, textiles, feathers, tar and wax. Plaster of paris and rubber have been added since the mid-1990s. At first he used discarded textiles such as coats and shirts to shape animal heads. Later he begins to pile up living mosses in glass containers to form huge sculptures. Large wax and rubber casts follow.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1983 Museum association in the Von der Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
  • 1983 Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich
  • 1987 Galerie Schneider, Constance
  • 1990 Gallery Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
  • 1991 New Aachen Art Association, Aachen
  • 1994 Galerie Schneider, Frankfurt / M
  • 1996 Municipal Art Museum, Reutlingen
  • 1997 Manus presse gallery, Stuttgart
  • 2007 Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt / M
  • 2009 Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt / M
  • 2011 Forum Art Rottweil Walter Kütz Sculpture
  • 2016 Forum Kunst, Walter Kütz: ONE SIZE FITS ALL, Rottweil

Group exhibitions

  • 1985 Lothringer Strasse, Munich
  • 1987 Bonner Kunstverein, winner of the federal competition of the BMBW
  • Bestiary, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich
  • Gallery Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
  • City Gallery Bern
  • 2002 Showroom, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • 2004 Wilderness in the art laboratory, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen Collection Ludwig
  • 2009 Far and Close Nature in Contemporary Art, Bonn Art Museum
  • 2010 Art Alarm - Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
  • 2014 horse without rider. The horse in contemporary art. Art Museum Solingen
  • Animals - Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt / Main

literature

  • Deep Views, Cologne, DuMont, 1985. ISBN 3-7701-1740-9
  • Golden October An introduction to architecture, sculpture, painting, decoration, photography, film, music, theater and dance, Jörg Johnen, Kunstforum International Volume 65, 1983
  • Walter Kütz "Origin of Species" in Kunstforum International Volume 109, page 375, 1990
  • Walter Kütz, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation Berlin 1994
  • Walter Kütz sculptures, Raum für Kunst Aachen 2000
  • Distant proximity> Nature <in contemporary art, Kunstmuseum Bonn 2009 ISBN 978-3-86832-004-6

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personal data
SURNAME Kütz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen